TWO TRUE REFORMS

I have a serious proposal to alleviate the budget problem for members of
Congress:

1) Eliminate the war on drugs. Legalize the less-harmful and currently
illegal substances, such as marijuana, in the same way we legalized
liquor. This program is hugely expensive at all levels of government,
it is not cost effective, it has not proven that it stops addiction
and/or use and it just adds layers of ineffective activity through
government.

2) Open the borders. This is another lost cause. With the world
getting smaller with faster, more efficient modes of transportation
and technology developments, our borders are not just land lines any
more. They are also not just sky and sea lines. Every U.S citizen
profits from the legal and illegal presence of immigrants From those
who wash your car to your taxi drivers, teachers, professors, doctors,
nurses and hospital workers of all skill levels, they all provide
useful and much-needed service.

When I go to the store and when I am in the hospital, it never occurs
to me to ask if the service and food providers are legal or illegal
residents. How many people ask?

"No, I don't want that doctor; he may be an illegal." "No, I don't
want that head of cabbage, it may have been picked by an illegal."
"No, I will just sit in this bedpan until a true legal resident comes
to help me." Yeah, right.

As our population ages, we will need more and more of these people
with their skilled and unskilled talents. I truly hope that they will
still want to come here. Of course, if Congress truly wanted to
control illegal immigrants, it would punish the employer. But lacking
any statesmanship at any level of government, that will not happen.

Get rid of these two ineffective programs. Let the Alaskan bridge-
building carry on. Immigrants in. Labor costs down. Economy up.
Revenue up. Taxes up. Good for all.

Joe McCarthy, Frisco