Reasonable Approach Needed

by Pat King: Today I sat and watched a fascinating juxtaposition of two vastly different news stories: The intrepid American soldiers storming the beaches at Normandy and the purported "refugees" storming our southern borders — one group bravely running into the face of mortal danger on foreign soil to face an enemy violating all the standards of civilization, and the other running from a corrupt government onto foreign soil and streaming into the U.S. to face the horrors of free food, free housing, and free medical care from a government that has abandoned all standards of responsibility for guarding the public purse and public safety.

We appear to be at a disastrous intersection of entitlement and enabling. We have created an expectation that one no longer need be responsible for the consequences of one's own behavior and that it is the duty of others to make up for their shortcomings, and a "moral" demand from our "ruling class" that the government is responsible for providing whatever is demanded by that expectation — and that it is the duty of those who take responsibility for their own lives to provide that relief by paying for it through their taxes — and the harder they work, the more is demanded of them.

I am sure that life in Central America is not ideal, even pretty bad, but the best answer to that problem is not to depopulate those countries, but for their citizens to "pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor" to bettering things in their own countries, just as did our forebears when their situation became intolerable.

A lady who took on the job of trying to solve the problems of Child Protective Services in Baltimore commented that what made her problem most difficult was not the dysfunctional behavior of the system's clients, but the people who beset her with their proposed solutions for the problem — the people who were more interested in the feeling of doing good than in actually putting in the effort to solve the problem. It is always more convenient to tell other people what to do and use other people's money to do it.

It cannot be said that the people assaulting our borders are poor. They tell stories of the thousands of dollars they paid the coyotes to get them to the U.S. They are not sick. They have traveled thousands of miles on foot to get here. And they are certainly not compassionate. They have risked the lives of their children and subjected them to a high probability of sexual abuse, both on the trip and when they get here and are subjected to human trafficking. It should also be noted that the Border Patrol has had to resort to DNA testing to find the real parents of the children because they are being "recycled" to feign parenthood for multiple "parents."

Can we please have a reasonable approach to this problem? Can we tell these "refugees" to go home and transform the country they are fleeing from into one more like the place they are purportedly fleeing to?
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Pat King writes for the Arkansas Garland County Tea Party. Shared by Dr. Jack Sternberg.

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