WHY CAN'T WE SAVE OUR OWN COUNTRY?

I can think of few topics which bring about more despair and exasperation than our country's docile acceptance of unfettered immigration. What makes the subject all the more perplexing and disturbing is that the solution to the conundrum is blatantly obvious. We now have more people arriving than we possibly need or are able to support?given the benefits upon which they are bestowed upon entry?and enacting serious restrictions or even a fairly liberal annual quota figure could make the problem go away within a generation or two. Yet, regardless of the ease with which it could be solved, our politicians are steadfast in their refusal to help the people; the same people who were duped into electing them in the first place.

The Late Empire period was not the Rome we see dramatized in movies. The Roman Senate was a city council with little power. The Eastern Empire was prospering, while the West was nearly bancrupt and relations between the two became less symbiotic and more antagonistic. The provinces were completely autonomous nations- the central government in Rome was seen as distant tax collector and the ecomony was becoming more and more fuedal, as generals became warlords with kingdoms and citizens became serfs. Taxes were high, the currency became inflated with less gold in the coins. People bartered goods. The cities suffered from plague. Roads went unrepaired. Border towns became dangerous. People began to look inward.The old virtues had been replaced with a new ideal. Few people were concerned with the influx of barbarians which set up their own kingdoms within the Empire, peace was preferable than the sacrifice of blood for country and most soldiers were barbarians themselves. Few people mourned the death of the Superpower and life continued for many people as if nothing had really changed. By the time Rome was sacked in 453 AD it was mostly a symbolic act- like our own LA riots - the damage was minor. Rome had become not a place, not a nation, but an idea- and soon a memory.

"I can think of few topics which bring about more despair and exasperation than our country's docile acceptance of unfettered immigration."

I know one that's just as bad. Unfettered approval of our enemies' tactics and undiluted disapproval of anything our army or Marines do.

The U.S. is under serious attack on both of these fronts.

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