To all the readers of Townbroadcast – Happy New Year and I wish you a prosperous and healthy year!

So the United States Government is in shutdown now. We won’t save any money since everyone working and not working will still be paid after the shutdown is over. Other than the folks wanting to visit historical sites and U.S Parks, is anyone feeling the pain? No, not really. The mail is being delivered, social security checks are being issued, and life goes on.

The amount wanted by the President is a measly $5 billion, about the amount needed to run the government for a day. The Democrats spend that without blinking an eye. Funny, President Donald Trump has upped the debt and the Democrats scream. President Barack Obama increased it more in eight years than all the presidents before him (an additional $9 trillion) and not a peep from his fellow Democrats or the media. Huh, guess it wasn’t a big deal.

The Democrats’ opposition to the Wall or Fence (whatever the nomenclature used), they say there is no need to keep out the people from the south, they can come in and work for them as gardeners, landscapers, ditch diggers, maids and what is known to Democrats in Texas as “pedro labor.” But we all know the real reason — more votes.

If fences and walls don’t work, why do they work in Israel? Why does President Obama’s mansion have a 10-foot brick wall around it? Why does the White House have a wrought iron fence around it? I bet both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have fences or walls around their compounds (millionaires have compounds, common people have houses). Why? Because they work, they know they work, you know they work.

All Democrats not long ago were all for a wall when they had the majority, but then when candidate Trump campaigned on it, it became verboten to speak of support for the Wall.

Can a wall be overcome? Sure, anything man-made can be overcome. But now, they just walk across the border unmolested and disappear into the interior without a trace. With a wall, that will not happen, and anyone breaching the wall will be apprehended by the Border Patrol. Instead of thousands entering every day, it will be single digits being apprehended.

Every year it is estimated now there are 1 million-plus illegals entering our country. Of that population, there are 63% who are on public assistance of some sort or another or all the assistance offered. That means many are working for cash and eliminating taxes altogether, or they give a false social security number to their employer and hoping they never are found out.

The President is correct, the shutdown of the government is really on the Democrats. The House passed the bill authorizing the wall, but the Senate will not without Democrat support. So Democrats are saying to you, American citizens, they think more of people who break our laws to enter our country illegally and among those are drug dealers, rapists and murderers. Of course, there are the majority just wanting an opportunity to enter the country for a new life, but they say we don’t like your laws. Most don’t want to assimilate into our culture and some not even using English.

To see what the severity of the immigration has done to a state, take a look at California. The whole state is a study of how not to run a government and many cities are on the verge of bankruptcy. Governor Jerry Brown (aka “Moonbeam”) is more worried about welcoming illegals than he is people entering the country legally. Sanctuary cities abound in California. It is devastating to the state — the public support systems are being overrun and decimated — hospitals, schools, government offices, courts, law enforcement.

I would hope President Trump would issue an executive order stating any state or city with sanctuary status be withheld federal government funding until such time as they rescind the sanctuary status.

I’m all for legal immigration. A friend of mine had a son that married a Mexican national and it took them years and about $17,000 to get her citizenship. She is now a proud American citizen. Anyone who wants in the country, please get in line to legally be allowed entry. Welcome to the United States!

The rotting of America from within continues…