So yesterday's blog may have been a little harsh. I was fairly crabby yesterday. My boss even told me that if I didn't cool it, I was going to blow out a gasket. Then I snapped at her asking just how she suggested I should "cool it." Put my head in a bucket of ice?
I guess I shouldn't say that I hate liberals. I have a lot of very dear friends who fall on the liberal side of things. I prefer to think of them as "misguided." But I wasn't lying when I said I was not going to pretend to be something I wasn't and I didn't need extra people in my life. Because my very dear liberal friends know where I stand on the issues and they're okay with that. We just try to stay off the topic of politics.
I took a political test today, and it put me almost in the middle of the four quadrants. A conservative liberatrian. Isn't that an oxymoron? It said I was a social liberal. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because I would think an issue like abortion (which I am very strongly against) would be a social issue, putting me on the conservative side. All I can figure is that my answers on gay marriage threw it off. I'm not in favor of gay marriage, I still think marriage should be between a man and a woman, but I tend to be pretty wishy-washy on the whole gay issue. I have too many gay friends, I guess. I also have this viewpoint that the government should keep out of our business entirely. Maybe I'll get into that someday. Today I just don't feel like it.
Maybe today I feel like getting a little bit into immigration. On that test there were questions like, "do you think we should have one primary language for all immigants and they should have to learn it?" Yes, I do. And here's why. I would never go live in Mexico, or France, or Russia and expect that they should speak English to accomadate me. If I'm going to live there, then I need to make the nessecary steps to assimilate into their culture. It would be outrageous of me to demand that they change to fit my needs, and that is what I feel has happened in America today. It's ridiculous. Personally I think we should close our borders entirely. We're having enough trouble supporting our own citizens without taking in new ones, and I won't even get into the illegal aliens. Won't even start.
You're probably calling me a hyporcrite right now. You're probably saying "your family immigrated here once too! This country was built on immigrants! You obvioulsy don't know any immigrants!"
First off, yes, my family immigrated here from Germany in the 1880s. Many of them can still speak German (or so I thought, until I did some research and found out that what we actually speak is this mismash of Dutch and German.) They came over here with the expectation that to survive, they would have to learn the language and find a way to support themselves. There weren't any government grants. No one made sure that all labels were printed in multipule languages. You either learned the language and survived, or didn't.
Secondly, you're wrong. I do know immigrants. Some of my families' best friends immigrated here from Africa in the last 20 years. We have a multi-cultural Christmas with all our families with true African dishes and real African people (and I bet you thought I was a neo-natzi who only hung out with whites! Gottcha there.) And guess what? They all speak English. Went through the government and got their citizenship the right way. And for all you people who say, "but people have hard circumstances!" let me give you an example. I have a friend from Mexico who is a few years younger than I am. She came here with her husband and one baby when she was 19. Soon after, he left her high and dry and went back to Mexico. A single mom who could barely speak English. So you know what she did? She pulled herself up by her bootstraps, learned English, took 2 jobs and now she's got her citizenship. (And she's since had another kid, by the way). And she speaks English pretty darn good.
But here's the thing, this country is already built. It's done. It's established. We can barely come up with a system that can take care of the people we have now, much less anyone who wants to move here. So borders? Yup, close 'em. We're full. Until we can figure out how to make this country work by ourselves, we've got no business taking in others. Because right now, my kids and my grandkids (I don't even have any of either yet!) are already in debt up to their eyeballs.
Some great country we're living in right now, huh? I know, I know, you're saying "well then just leave if you don't like it." You know what? No. I won't leave, not yet. For 8 years I listened to every democrat in Hollywood and beyond whining about how much they HATED this country because Bush was running it. And they got to stay. So guess what? So do I. AND I get to whine while I'm here.
Until tomorrow!
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