I cannot oppose the law in Arizona because it is only dealing with half the problem, though, WayOut. It's dealing with one half of the problem. Obviously, I think I should demand more, and expect the other half in addition.
Basically, I look at this whole adventure as another in the long list of government failures.
Obama tells me I shouldn't be upset at government failures, and mistrust my government, because my government is *ME*. That's bull. I don't think that 10 years of waiting for INS (or whatever they call themselves these days) is acceptable...but it's what the government does. I don't think it should take upward of a year and a half to straighten out a status of someone who is working to get legal...but that's what the government does. I don't think we should have one-sided laws, passed by a state, since the government isn't taking a problem seriously...if it were me, I'd do my darn job. You see, Mr. President, I disagree that I am the government, because the government accepts results that I WOULD NEVER ACCEPT FROM MYSELF. If I was *really* the boss, I'd set some reasonable timelines for getting some changes in place, and I'd hold the people in those jobs accountable to getting that work done. And there'd be some firings based on poor performance.
I don't approve of spending more money than I bring in. I don't approve of bailing out failing businesses. I don't approve of procedures that allow 41 votes to overrule 59, and I don't approve of procedures that hide votes. I don't approve of my government doing anything other than national security in secret. I don't approve of conferring more rights on people who try to blow up planes than on people who overstay a visitor's visa. I demand better, and I don't think anyone here DOESN'T. The reason we don't trust the government is nothing is going to get done about any of this. It wasn't last time around, and when it comes around next time, it won't be fixed.
If the government wants us to TRUST it, it needs to EARN it.
Sorry for drifting off topic, but I'm on a tirade about the failure of our government for at least the past 20 years. 20 years of experience says a whole lot more to me than a few words in a document written over two centuries ago. I'm from Missouri. You gotta SHOW ME.