Reform Welfare and Close the Borders! (and whatever)

Please excuse my language and spelling. I am in the mood for a martini. Normally, I try to be semi-professional and not drink and blog. But what I am about to talk about is my biggest political peeve. So I need a drink.
I am so sick of hearing politicians talking about closing the borders from one side of their mouths. Then they say from the other side of their mouths that the illegals are taking the jobs that Americans don't want. That is bullshit!!! The thing that needs to be done first is REFORM welfare.
When politicians talk crap like this thay are not helping the welfare and government assistance issue. They are making it sound like it is more honorable to take tax payer money than "pluck chickens." I would expect this attitude from Democrats, but now that attitude comes from Republicans, too.
Not one candidate has talked about welfare reform. Personally, I think Dems and Reps are in cahoots about welfare and assistance. They both are power hungry and want to see as many subjects be beholden to them.
I don't want to see people starving and kids without shoes and clothes. I don't want to just take away from people. What I want to see is incentives to go off assistance. There is no incentive when politicians tell the recipients they are no better than people who cross our borders illegally, if they get a decent job. There is no incentive when they find out they make more money on assistance than working at McDonalds, dig ditches or clean houses and hotels.
Not one damn politician has the balls to bring up this issue. Ya can say what ya want to about Nixon, but on this issue, he had balls. Back in the late 60's or early 70's he talked about the welfare system needing an overhaul. No one took him seriously. I'll tell ya what, if I had been around and there was computer blogging I would have taken him serious.
Back in the 1950's, Dwight Eisenhower said that something needed to be done about the borders. If only it had been said in reverse. Ike should have been talking about welfare and Nixon should have been talking about the borders. Then things could have been taken care of by now. I guess hindsight is 20/20.
Not everyone in this country has a college education. Not everyone is able to attend college, whether because of money or the way their brains work. Some people just are unable to work within the confines of college. It's not because they are stupid. Possibly they are smarter than the average college student and their minds are always going. If people are given an incentive to work jobs that will help them pay the bills they will work those jobs.
This used to be a damn good country. Those pioneers and colonists who founded this country worked their asses off to make this the freakin spoiled country that it is now. Im sure they broke their backs so that their descendents could have a better life, but they did not forsee this. If those people could come back to life they would be shocked to see politicians demeaning hard labor.
Those people never said, "Gee, I'm too good to pluck chickens. I am from Europe," or in cases of when the West was being expanded, "from the East, I am above slopping hogs. I don't want to clean the outhouse or bed pans." These great people never said, "Why don't we get some of those Spanish-Mexican mixed people to do our work while the rich sit at a fancy carved wood desk and the poor take money from our newly formed government." How long would the "new country" last? Yet, the same politicians who romanticize the colonists and pioneers demean the hard work these great early Americans did by saying the menial labor they did was worthless.
The men had to chop trees on their own to clear land. They used horses to till the land. They built their own little cabins, not some custom made McMansions on credit. They hunted their own food. They worked day and night.
The women made everything from scratch. When they were pregnant, they still worked in the little veggie gardens, cooked and cleaned 'til the day they popped out their babies. They never said, "look at all these wild animals, death and disease. Maybe I should just stick a spoon up my !@$@$." No they took that baby into their life. Granted there were a rare few who did abort, but not many. There was some bastard children, but not many. They didn't spoil their kids and put their lives aside for that kid. They knew the difference between an adult and kid. They also knew that it was an adults world and adults came first. The men weren't there with video cameras on her @$@#$ when the baby was born. The men were smoking cigars with the other guys.
Back to the subject at hand. It's about a combination of laws and culture. Right now those who make the laws are changing the culture. They're changing the culture to say that hard work won't get ya anywhere. They're changing the culture to discourage people to hard work.
I am not anti-immigrant. I am into genealogy. Most of my ancestors are from Europe, 8 countries and possibly Native American from dad's Illinois and Arkansas sides. These people worked hard to get here, and they worked hard when they got here.
I don't want to defend the abortionists and the reasons women who get abortions. But at the time I think that once something is done about welfare reform and the border, it will reduce abortions. Republicans just want to simplify the issue. They say it is a Christian issue and it's about morals. Yes it is about morals, but it's also about standard of living.
If ya have a young teen girl who is fourth generation welfare recipient and ends up a an unwed pregnant she will just give up thinking that there will be nothing for her kid to live for. She will think that it is more honorable to recieve welfare than work a job that is "for immigrants" and support her child. Let's tell that young girl to lift herself up, take a job, any job, work her way to becoming sucsessful and be a role model for the child she will give birth to. Maybe that kid will be the first generation to not be born into welfare. Perhaps he can grow up to attend college and get a decent job.
Thank you for reading my Ted Kennedy style blogging from the polar opposite ;).