Stop Hurting America
Attention Barack Obama, I have devised a strategy that will win you the election and it's pretty simple. You just have to talk in "plans" and not in "political babble". Be aggressive, create a plan for what you'll do in office issue by issue. Say something, not nothing for a change.
Flashback to my last night...
I sit in the George Webb on Farwell with a group of my friends. The group includes a kid who grew up in a trailer park, a 6-foot-5 African-American male raised in innercity Milwaukee, someone from the city of Madison (who just spent the summer in Vegas), another person from almost small town Wisconsin, a born and raised Mormon from Utah, a pot head from Akron, Ohio, myself, and my friend AK who has a Visa to study in the United States from India.
This is America.
We're all talking about this, that, and everything else during the course of eating our "delicious" food, and we stumble upon a topic only one of us knows anything about, immigration from the immigrants perspective. We ask AK how many years he can study here, and it appears as long as he enrolled in a university he can kick it in the big US of A for about as long as he wants. Asking him about being a citizen is another issue.
He starts to explain how he would have to get a H1-B Work Visa to replace his Student Visa and rock that for about five years, then he could get a Green Card and in another couple of...
Snap... my eyes roll back into my head along with the rest of the table. Everyone agreed it was about the most ridiculous thing they could think of. He could speak English, he's smart, and he's a hell of a lot nicer than a lot of Americans, why does he have to do so much for so long to be a citizen?
Jump forward back to the present.
Politicians talk about immigration a lot, especially Republicans. When they talk about immigrant they babble for a really long time and no one cares, but they give you an opportunity to think while they spew a monotonous river of words.
And the thought a lot of people get to is why is the process so hard? Why does it take so long? And, last but not least, I've lived here my whole life and I don't have the slightest clue what you have to know or do to become a citizen.
Then eventually the politican snaps you out of your daydreaming with the mention of "illegal" immigrant, which of course is the act by which you enter the country purely for the hope of a better life, support the economy, and people hate you for it.
People hate illegal immigration.
Wrong.
People hate the fact that the government can't figure out illegal immigration. They really hate the fact that politicians talk about it non-stop, but don't do anything about the issue.
Politicians state that the system is broken on this and nearly every other issue, but they don't have an actual plan to fix any of the issues. I can't go to Hillary Clinton's website and look up a four year, plain English ethanol strategy. All I can get from a politician today is if they support the issue or not, but what I want is what they will do about it.
Illegal immigration isn't the issue that is going to swing votes, it's the fact that no one has come up with an actual plan of attack that isn't a continuation of whatever we're already doing.
Any plan at all is better than what we have now (which is a fence that doesn't cover the entire border).
Here's the plan Barack.
You're going to have a multi-step plan. First, you're going set clear standards that are obtainable and acceptable by all for the barrier to becoming a citizen (English? Yes. 100 hours of community service? Genius). If the streets are going to be paved with gold let's put our newest citizens in charge of keeping them clean for the start of their life here, oh, and let's teach them skills while doing it.
Next, you're going to turn that fence into the front gate at Six Flags. If people want to walk through our turnstiles, let them. We'll be able to keep track of them just like we keep tracking of people getting off an airplane. Indians want to come here to work and live? Let them. Mexicans too? It's a party.
Next you'll explain how yes, this will create a huge influx of people to the United States, but, there is a huge upside. First, we'll know who is in this influx for a change. They'll take more ownership in their country. They'll pay taxes. And they're going to help pay for your new home.
That's right, the housing market is swirling in the toilet bowl right now. You suburban folk keep building new homes, leaving your old ones empty. Who is going to live in them? Immigrants!
What better way to fix a problem of too much housing then to go out there and collect a bunch of new people that want homes?
They'll want stuff for their house, so they'll buy it, and we'll collect taxes on it.
And that Barack, is a step-by-step plan.
Feel free to come up with more plans that eliminate problems. Dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico? Come up with a solution for that, it makes you look like you're ready to do something. Health care? Come up with a solution for that that isn't a continuation of the already broken system.
Rock the boat. America is ready for a politician that promotes drastic change. We've endured far too much recently of a moderate plan being introduced to only be beat down by the rest of Congress into being more moderate and not doing anything at all.
Start radical and who knows, Congress and the President might actually end up with a plan that actually improves the country for a change instead of staying the course.
Flashback to my last night...
I sit in the George Webb on Farwell with a group of my friends. The group includes a kid who grew up in a trailer park, a 6-foot-5 African-American male raised in innercity Milwaukee, someone from the city of Madison (who just spent the summer in Vegas), another person from almost small town Wisconsin, a born and raised Mormon from Utah, a pot head from Akron, Ohio, myself, and my friend AK who has a Visa to study in the United States from India.
This is America.
We're all talking about this, that, and everything else during the course of eating our "delicious" food, and we stumble upon a topic only one of us knows anything about, immigration from the immigrants perspective. We ask AK how many years he can study here, and it appears as long as he enrolled in a university he can kick it in the big US of A for about as long as he wants. Asking him about being a citizen is another issue.
He starts to explain how he would have to get a H1-B Work Visa to replace his Student Visa and rock that for about five years, then he could get a Green Card and in another couple of...
Snap... my eyes roll back into my head along with the rest of the table. Everyone agreed it was about the most ridiculous thing they could think of. He could speak English, he's smart, and he's a hell of a lot nicer than a lot of Americans, why does he have to do so much for so long to be a citizen?
Jump forward back to the present.
Politicians talk about immigration a lot, especially Republicans. When they talk about immigrant they babble for a really long time and no one cares, but they give you an opportunity to think while they spew a monotonous river of words.
And the thought a lot of people get to is why is the process so hard? Why does it take so long? And, last but not least, I've lived here my whole life and I don't have the slightest clue what you have to know or do to become a citizen.
Then eventually the politican snaps you out of your daydreaming with the mention of "illegal" immigrant, which of course is the act by which you enter the country purely for the hope of a better life, support the economy, and people hate you for it.
People hate illegal immigration.
Wrong.
People hate the fact that the government can't figure out illegal immigration. They really hate the fact that politicians talk about it non-stop, but don't do anything about the issue.
Politicians state that the system is broken on this and nearly every other issue, but they don't have an actual plan to fix any of the issues. I can't go to Hillary Clinton's website and look up a four year, plain English ethanol strategy. All I can get from a politician today is if they support the issue or not, but what I want is what they will do about it.
Illegal immigration isn't the issue that is going to swing votes, it's the fact that no one has come up with an actual plan of attack that isn't a continuation of whatever we're already doing.
Any plan at all is better than what we have now (which is a fence that doesn't cover the entire border).
Here's the plan Barack.
You're going to have a multi-step plan. First, you're going set clear standards that are obtainable and acceptable by all for the barrier to becoming a citizen (English? Yes. 100 hours of community service? Genius). If the streets are going to be paved with gold let's put our newest citizens in charge of keeping them clean for the start of their life here, oh, and let's teach them skills while doing it.
Next, you're going to turn that fence into the front gate at Six Flags. If people want to walk through our turnstiles, let them. We'll be able to keep track of them just like we keep tracking of people getting off an airplane. Indians want to come here to work and live? Let them. Mexicans too? It's a party.
Next you'll explain how yes, this will create a huge influx of people to the United States, but, there is a huge upside. First, we'll know who is in this influx for a change. They'll take more ownership in their country. They'll pay taxes. And they're going to help pay for your new home.
That's right, the housing market is swirling in the toilet bowl right now. You suburban folk keep building new homes, leaving your old ones empty. Who is going to live in them? Immigrants!
What better way to fix a problem of too much housing then to go out there and collect a bunch of new people that want homes?
They'll want stuff for their house, so they'll buy it, and we'll collect taxes on it.
And that Barack, is a step-by-step plan.
Feel free to come up with more plans that eliminate problems. Dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico? Come up with a solution for that, it makes you look like you're ready to do something. Health care? Come up with a solution for that that isn't a continuation of the already broken system.
Rock the boat. America is ready for a politician that promotes drastic change. We've endured far too much recently of a moderate plan being introduced to only be beat down by the rest of Congress into being more moderate and not doing anything at all.
Start radical and who knows, Congress and the President might actually end up with a plan that actually improves the country for a change instead of staying the course.
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