I can agree with John Hawkins on these! - Granite Grok

I can agree with John Hawkins on these!

‘Grok friend John Hawkins from RightWingsNews has a list of 20 things that he, as a Conservative, believes in for his latest TownHall column.  Here’s a few of my Likes – but as always, GRTWT:

1) Any illegal alien caught in this country should be forever barred from legally visiting this country, working here, or becoming an American citizen.

18) The whole purpose of our immigration system should be to benefit the Americans who are already here. Therefore, we should favor the best and brightest emigrants from Western cultures. Other immigrants to this country who get in because of family ties should have someone who’s willing to vouch for them and take care of them if they have hard times. No naturalized American citizens should ever be eligible for food stamps, welfare, school lunches, or any other hand-outs from their fellow citizens.

I don’t care that the reason is to feed his family back home or to provide a better future for their kids (what father or mother wouldn’t if the DREAM act is codified into law?).  If the first act of coming to this country is to flagrantly flount our laws, you do not deserve to be here.  I know too many who have spent the time, money, and heartache to go through our LEGAL immigration system properly (including Grokster Mike who is getting close to being a naturalized citizen!!!) to EVER countenance illegal immigration.

We can thank Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy for changing the rules that Society became responsible for immigrants instead of sponsors or families.  We should go back to 1965 and revoke that change.

2) If you take welfare or food stamps or if your kids have to get free meals at school, you should be ashamed. Your kids should feel ashamed by your failure, too.

Knowing John, I believe this is oriented to the long term “on the dole” person, especially when it becomes multi-generational.  We, as a society, have made it “stigma free” to be on the dole with EBT card instead of checks and just feeding all students in schools (or just about).  I understand and support a short term, Society provided safety net but like many, I believe it has become more like a hammock than a hand up.

5) It’s unlikely to ever happen, but we’d be much better off in this country if the voting age were 25 and only people who paid income tax could vote.

Studies show that one’s neural development has all but finalized at that point.  Also by that time, one is getting the idea that Freedom is not free and that our Government is far from free – and having a material effect on their wallet.  I still wish our taxes were done manually – each week or month, we have to write a check and send it it.  Or, move April 15th to the end of October.

7) On average, government workers should make less than people who do the same jobs in private industry.

Why should “public servants” have better compensation than those who are supporting them?

10) If you’re a Christian, then your faith requires you to oppose gay marriage.

Faith / theology should not follow pop-culture; otherwise, churches denigrate themselves by losing their first principles and becoming mere clubs that meet on Sunday mornings.

11) I wish the best for people everywhere, but I’m not a citizen of the world. I’m an American and our country comes first.

Can’t really add much to that.

12) The biggest threat to America’s future isn’t Al-Qaeda, China, or Iran; it’s our own government spending so much money that it bankrupts the country.

Or that, either.  And the biggest problem is that knuckleheaded people keep going the “keep me on the gravy train” voting route even as we see that the train bridge is out just a little ways out…

15) People who think black Americans are too stupid and incompetent to handle getting a voter ID are just as racist as the KKK, although they show it differently.

Hear, Hear!  Liberals often treat Blacks like little children or wards of the State and have to be watched over and protected; low expectations are as racist as it gets as well.

17) We don’t need to get religion out of politics; we need to get more religion in politics. The politicians certainly don’t seem to have any qualms about stepping into areas better left to the church; so pastors have to be willing to encourage their flocks to vote their values to protect themselves from a rapacious government.

Bring back the Black Robed Regiment! Remember, the First Amendment is to protect individuals from the State in forcing a particular brand of religion (which includes, in my estimation, the “no religion at all in the public square” movement as if the phrase “Separation of Church and State” actually existed in the Constitution.  Much of our problem is an increasing lack of individual sense of appropriate morals and self-restraint/governance and the Progressive idea that all that is necessary for an ordered Society is to have MORE external governance (laws and regulations) placed upon the populace (a most wrong headed idea if there ever was one – NO amount of external “guidance” can ever replace a correct internal one).

Also from Powerline, read some stories about how some folks came to be Conservatives (or just realized that they were early on) from a project that Powerline assisted Public Insight Network/American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio:

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