Illegal immigration is a very sore spot for me personally. I know many good people in the US, hard working and kind people, who just happen to be in the US illegally, many who are personal friends of ours. This does not come out of some foreignphobia. My wife is Brazilian. We currently live in Brazil as missionaries. Our family is multilingual.

One of the reasons that illegal immigration is such a sore spot with me is that we tried to bring Luciene’s mom to the US on a visit when we lived there.

Luciene and I met and married in Brazil, and stayed in Brazil for a year and eight months, then we moved back to the States, to Columbus, Ohio, for seven years. My wife Luciene is Brazilian, and she was in the United States legally, on a visa that took us 8 months of waiting in Brazil to get, waiting on contorted bureaucracy and paperwork as well as spending thousands of dollars in travel to two different embassies.

We could have lied. We could have applied for a tourist visa, and then applied for a permanent visa while in the States. It would have been much easier in the contorted bureaucracy that is immigration to lie and then apply, but we wanted to do everything aboveboard, and we paid a price for it. We felt it our obligation to keep everything totally legal.

Luciene’s mom had no intention of staying illegally. Her whole family except for my wife was in Brazil. Her visa was denied. But some of our friends, in the US illegally, were able to get their families to the States, sometimes through shifty agencies. Many of those ended up staying on illegally.

Now, I sure don’t want to in any way offend my friends who are in the States illegally. I know how much many of them have endured to be there. But it really ticks me off when those that go through the paperwork, do everything just right, jump through all the hoops, when they are denied visas, and those that have decided to enter the US illegally are then rewarded with tuition prices that those legally in the States cannot get. It really ticks me off when those in the States illegally can get better health care than Americans can.

I am so sick of the PC crap on illegals, on out of control government spending, about the farce of separation of church and state that has now become a defacto “freedom FROM religion”. I would really like to see someone who shoots straight, and plays hardball, someone with the courage to stand up to the liberals, and not cave in to public pressure.

We need someone, a warrior, who will look the Liberal Loonies in the face, and tell them that the pork stops here. No more. We need someone who will look their Conservative Cohorts in the face, and tell them, the Pork stops here. No more. We need someone who will look the Looney Libs in the face, and tell them, the lies stop here. No Moore Michael.

We need someone who is really going to cut spending. Our deficit is out of control. Someone needs to have the courage to stand up, and cut until it hurts. It must be done. We all really know it must be done. We just really hope that we won’t have to feel any personal pain, that maybe we can put it off so that our kids and grandkids foot the bill. Isn’t that the case? Nobody it seems, wants to tighten their own belts, to do the hard things that need to be done to get us free from these shackles.


I just read that the Democracks strategy is to try to act like Christians on some issues like environment. But their real strategy is something else that really seems to work time and time again. Harp on the economy. Harp on the thing that most occupies the minds of most Americans. Harp on money.

Never mind that it is the Republicans that have been fixing the wrecked economy left by the Liberals. Never mind that Bush had not even taken office and the media was harping about “Bush’s Economy”, even though it was really eight years of Clinton’s economy that they had lied about and twisted enough numbers on to make Enron look like child’s play.

Never mind that after a devastating terrorist attack aimed precisely to harm America and our economy, and a war on two fronts, that the economy, which was already in deep trouble, is now making a comeback thanks to Bush’s tax cuts.

The Democracks are, simply put, just experts at touching the root of greed in mankind, and manipulating the weak and gullible.

You cannot serve God and money. It just cannot be done. If you find yourself thinking of the candidates in terms of money and economy, perhaps it is time to take a step back, perhaps fall on your knees, and make some decisions based on values, on character. And not the fake, “let’s paint a Christian face on this Pagan to deceive even the elect if it were possible” kind of character, but real solid character.

If we, America the Great, continue to make decisions based on greed, then we will get the leaders that we deserve, and eventually, we will cease to be America the Great. God allowed America to become great for one reason, and it is found on our money, “In God we trust”. It is because America was founded on Christian principles (even if that fact drives Liberals stark raving foaming at the mouth mad and they try to deny it) that God has blessed us.

I will tell you, as one that lives dependant on the generosity of my fellow Americans to be here living on the Amazon as a missionary, that I doubt that there is a more generous and caring people in the world as the American people. We have been so well taken care of, and have received so much love and encouragement. If it were not for the generosity, we could not even be here helping the poor and needy.

I know that God continues to bless America because there are so many people that are faithfully His, because America sends so many missionaries all over the world, and because there are so many that on bended knee, plead for the mercy of God on our nation.

But as a people, as a nation, we are drawing away from God. This is mainly a failure of those that claim to be sons and daughters of God, a failure of Christians to stand up and do what is right. We have allowed God to be eliminated from most public places. In a few short generations, which just happen to be the most affluent in the history of the world, we have tried to forget God and relegate Him to the dusty bin of irrelevance. There is a full fledged war going on to destroy the Bride of Christ and America the Great, and those that call themselves by God’s name are asleep on comfortable leather couches, remote controls loosely falling from flaccid junk food fingers.

One of the things that is speeding this along is the acceptance of people that refuse to assimilate into the American way of life. Illegal immigration is a floodgate that is wide open, and threatens to swallow America in a sea of crime, run away medical costs, and trafficking in substances and flesh. As we look the other way, and ignore the dangers, we leave ourselves open to further terrorist attacks, through the same routes that the illegals are taking to invade our country.

This is an issue that demands someone with courage to stand up and put an end to. Where are the leaders of this great nation that will take the risks to do the hard things that we need to do to preserve our way of life, to preserve the very fabric of our nation? Where are the leaders?

Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there?