Texas Rep. Riddle Interviewed on Immigration

This video is an Interview with Texas Rep. Debbie Riddle on the Immigration legislation she is reintroducing in the state legislature. Her intention is to provide the citizens of Texas with the safety and security they deserve. This video is part of the Political Common Sense for America series.

They Think We’re Stupid!

On Tuesday February 9th, the U.S. Government reported that the illegal immigration population has fallen for the second straight year. They claim that the number fell by 1 million or 8% between 2007 and 2009. The decline, to 10.8 million people in January 2009 from 11.8 million in 2007 and 11.6 million in 2008, coincides with the national economic downturn.

They must be joking?
Do we look that dumb?
Do they think we’re stupid?

How do you go about counting illegal immigrants with any level of accuracy? Aren’t they hiding? I could have told you there were probably less, but to throw out numbers like this is just plain ridiculous. What do you do, go through the state and federal correctional facilities, and ask for citizen-ship and then multiple by 100? Do you count the number of anchor babies and then multiple by 20?

Don’t get me wrong, I get statistical analysis well enough to understand that you can extrapolate the whole from a sampling of the parts, but this is nothing more than a wild guess. I’ll give you one guess who was responsible for this research? That’s right Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano does it once again. Okay Janet, here is the big question of the day, “If you can count them, how come you can’t catch them and deport them?” Maybe it’s time to stop the acting the role and really do your job. Uphold the law, illegal means illegal, and if you can’t or won’t then get out of the way.



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Dean tells the truth about Tort Reform

Finally, they admitted what has been obvious to so many of us.

Howard Dean said, “The reason tort reform is not in the [health care] bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on. And that’s the plain and simple truth.”

This is what I have been saying for months. Our congressional leaders are being led by the nose by PACs, 527's, and other special interest groups. There is no question that "We the People" are taking a back seat. If they really wanted to lower healthcare costs, in turn make it available to more people, then the easy four steps would be:

1. Tort Reform
2. Interstate Competition
3. Manage Illegal Immigration
4. Dislocate the Employer - Insurer relationship

The best part is they could do these one at a time and measure the success of each one. It would create the change we need and at the same time not muddy the waters with issues of control or partisanship.