Last night, Mike Huckabee had a great suggestion for getting started on Immigration reform.  A “comprehensive” solution, he said, means “gridlock”.  He suggested we start with “one thing” (with a reference to Curly in the movie City Slickers).  That one thing is to secure the border.  What a common-sense approach.  Regardless of what we choose to do, we need to secure our borders first.  Without that, nothing else is really worth doing anyway.  It would, in fact, solve the problem over a long period of time all by itself.  Kudos to Mike Huckabee for being a voice of reason.

• The banks (TARP)
• The automotive industry (GM)
• The housing industry (Freddie and Fannie)
• Health-care (with the added benefit of giving enforcement to the IRS)
• Education financing (part of the health-care bill gives the government full control over student loans – except for one bank as a bribe to it’s member of Congress)

And all of this with no cuts to any other programs.  This is all financially unsustainable and detrimental to job creation (wasn’t that supposed to be the number one priority.  Next on the list, illegal immigration amnesty reform.  It’s going to take a LOT of work to undo this mess.  I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER 2010.

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