Why should we even worry about illegal immigration? We’ve got a lot bigger problems now like mounting federal debt of over $8 trillion dollars, a rapidly declining dollar in relation to the major world currencies, and yet another endless, pointless war that will most certainly be dragged on for God knows how long. The social security system will be bankrupt in 20 years. Not that it will make much difference. We’re poisoning ourselves out of existence. Children don’t even feel safe in our schools anymore.

America used to be a great place. But the dream is over now. America is now one big homogenous mass of nauseating conformity where everyone wears the same clothes, watches the same shit TV, maxes out their credit cards, and drives their big fat SUV to the biggie mart to buy a bunch of crappy food that makes them fat and die an early death of heart disease.

Tell me again why this is worth defending? What is so great about all of this? Maybe it’s time to chalk the United States of America up as a failed social experiment and move on.

Hell, our #1 world power status is precarious at best anyway. China and a newly aligned European Union are already running circles around us economically. It’s only a matter of time before the Chinese call in the debts that we owe them which we’ll never be able to pay back. Then things will get interesting.

Back to illegal immigration, will refusing to accept the rest of the world’s “tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to breath free,” really make us better off? Our strength as a nation has always come from our immigrants. But it seems to me that regular old Americans have done a fine job of fucking this place up. The Bush family has been here for over 200 years and look at the mess they’ve created for us in the last 7.

Our nation’s leaders had a chance to do something about this festering problem long before today. We could have killed this cancer 20 years ago but we were busy building nuclear weapons and smuggling arms from Iran to fund revolutions that have destabilized regions where many of these illegal immigrants come from.

America will suffer the same fate as all world superpowers and as far as I can tell, that day is not so far away. Our leadership has caused far more problems for us than any illegal immigrants have, and it is our failed leadership that is certainly assuring our demise. (May 1, Workers Day, 2007, Author Unknown)