PUT YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE

I got an email from a friend today. She was upset about making English the national language and illegal aliens collecting social security. Addressing that issue . . . America has been the melting pot of the planet forever. As people immigrated here they spoke their separate languages since our first immigrants. By the above logic we should be speaking a Native American language as our national language.
On the social security issue -- we have around 12,000,000 illigal aliens in this country. Did they come here over the last week, month, year? No. We have allowed this to happen over decades. They clean our homes, groom our lawns, baby sit our children, etc. We've allowed them to be embedded into our society . . . we really can't do without them. They have been paying into social security for years with no opportunity to collect.
My point is - why is this an issue now? Answer - to take our attention off the real issues that threaten our very existence, such as . . . .
Global warming . . . which this administration won't even acknowledge.
The debacle in Iraq . . . does it bother you that 650,000 civilians have died there since we invaded. Who's the threat to their existence, us or Sadaam? We've got close to 3,000 dead troops, not to mention more than 20,000 wounded . . . by wounded I mean paraplegics whose benefits have been cut by this administration.
Anybody remember a storm called Katrina and this administration's response? What if it was a terrorist attack that didn't have a week's worth of warnings?
How about being warned that Osama bin laden wanted to attack the U.S. The warning came more than a month prior to 9/11. They moved a G8 meeting a year earlier for fear of a plane into building attack, but they claim they couldn't imagine that sort of attack.
I can go on and on about this administration's incompetence, but one thing they are completely competent in is the shell game. If they don't want you to be concerned about the real issues they scare the shit out of you with something meaningless.
WAKE UP AND INFORM YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!