The 2nd time you immigrate into Mexico as others have done since the founding of the country they’ll put you in the cooler for 10.

Once again Ron Paul has stated, “There’s no difference between Dems and Repubs on the main issues facing America.” You see, they’re all bought and paid for by the same corporate interests.

Lot’s of free time.

Pardon me if I didn’t take the time to listen, but the Trump quote was not, “all Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers.” The quote as you well know was, “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. they’re bringing drugs. they’re bringing crime. they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people.”

Here are MY Gop initiatives? It’s certainly not MY gop. Legislation from decades back set the tone for the US, and I departed as soon as was practicable. Purchased a home in Spain in the early 80s. Voted with my feet, and have been offshore ever since.

I really don’t waste time trying to differentiate the parties. they’re both bought and paid for by the same corporate interests, and what we get in return from both sides is

Unchecked spending
Endless war
Trampling of the constitution
Primary concern … themselves and their power

Finally if I could quote Ron Paul, “There is practically no difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the main issues facing america.”

The pols are happy to see the masses angered by one party or the other. They realize these people lack the perception to see behind the curtain.

What they don’t like is americans renouncing their citizenship. It frightens them to the extent where several laws have recently been enacted to curtail this movement. these laws include
The Heart Act of 2008
Increasing the fee to renounce by 422% in 2014

Other proposed legislation includes
The ExPatriot Act of 2012
The Tax Collection Responsibility act of 2007

Now that Paul Ryan is Speaker of the House, keep a wary eye out for Ryan’s 7 favorite ideas (they’re also cropping up among Republican presidential candidates):

1. Reduce the top income-tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent (a huge windfall to the rich at a time when the rich take home a larger share of total income that at any time since the 1920s).

2. Cut corporate taxes to 25 percent from 35 percent (a giant sop to corporations, the largest of which are already socking away $1.2 trillion in foreign tax shelters).

3. Make these cuts without adding the budget deficit by slashing spending on domestic programs like food stamps and education for poor districts (now, 18% of the nation’s children are in poverty, and these cuts would only make things worse).

4. Also by turning Medicaid and other federal programs for the poor into block grants to the states, and let the states decide how to allocate them (in other words, give Republican state legislatures and governors slush funds to do with as they wish).

5. And turning Medicare into vouchers that don’t keep up with increases in healthcare costs (which would in effect cut Medicare for the elderly).

6. Deal with rising Social Security costs by raising the retirement age for Social Security (making Social Security even more regressive, since the poor don’t live nearly as long as the rich).

7. Finally, don’t raise the minimum wage but let it continue to decline as inflation makes it irrelevant; instead, provide poor workers with a larger Earned Income Tax Credit (enlarging the EITC is a good idea, but we need a higher minimum as well).

Bottom line: Beware Paul Ryan.

What do you think?