Does Jorge Ramos Understand the Reason There is More Opportunity in the USA?

Jorge Ramos makes this astonishing admission in his column entitled: ‘I no longer recognize this country’

Apparently, he is unable to recognize Identity Theft, a felony, for what it is. He thinks illegal aliens should be permitted into this country unlawfully, then be allowed to commit a felony to find work!

He admits "that the United States gave me opportunities that Mexico, my country of origin, did not." but he does not recognize that the reason those opportunities exist is due in large part to the culture of honesty in America. The US is not perfect when it comes to honesty but compared to most countries in the world, it is a paragon of virtue. 

We keep our word, mostly, even when no one is looking, and a high regard for honesty has real world consequences. 

In a culture of honesty, everyday transactions go smoother and therefore, trade and mercantilism are transacted at a higher rate, and higher volume per capita, making everybody a little better off.

In a culture of honesty, a people will work for one, or two weeks without pay because they trust an employer to keep his word and pay them for their work at the end of that time. An employer will advance an employee some pay because he trusts the employee to repay him with labor.

In larger transactions, besides the culture of honesty, the participants have recourse to the Justice system if the deal doesn't work out. And so, multi-million dollars contracts are entered in to, generating billions of dollars to be earned by the people hired by the deal makers to perform hundreds of specialized tasks. 

In a culture of honesty, trust greases the gears of the banking, finance systems and business in general.

All these good things go by the board in a culture of dis-honesty. People have to watch each other like hawks, business is dampened, and the country is poorer. 

In a culture of dis-honesty everyday transactions between a government employee and the public require an under-the-table payment, a bribe. In Mexico it's called "mordita", the bite. In other countries it has other names but it is always the same, a small payment to get the government employee to perform his task. The price rising with the need, importance and wallet size of the person wanting the service.

Only friends and relatives can be trusted. Dealing with strangers is always a risk in a culture of dis-honesty/

People who grow up in a culture of dis-honesty and have no awareness of it, like a fish doesn't notice water. I guess that's why Ramos doesn't recognize a felony for what it is.

The Hydrogen Option: Congress Goes Into Recess, the President Makes Recess Appointments, Congress Ratifies Them

The Democrats are using all the procedural tricks they can think of to slow down and gum up the wheels of the Trump Train in the committee nomination hearings and they are promising to do the same on the Senate floor with the Cabinet picks and the Supreme Court nomination.

The Democrats are not doing this because it will affect the outcome -the nominees are going to be confirmed, or not, by the Republican majority- but because it will slow down and blunt the pace of the President's initiatives, and because the Democrats are throwing a tantrum, like two year olds who didn't get their way. So, like two year olds, they need a hard dose of reality, they need to witness what the adults can do when the adults have come to the end of their patience.

This is what the adults can do: In the Constitution there is a clause. It's called the Recess Appointment clause. It was adopted without debate in order to prevent government paralysis. Government paralysis is exactly what the Democrats are endeavoring to do as we sit. So, this would be a right and proper use of the Recess Appointment Power.


Presenting; the Hydrogen Option.

The enabling statute: 
Article II, Section 2, third paragraph in the U.S. Constitution states that "The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session."

How it would work: 
The Congress goes into recess -or rather leaves town on a three day and one hour break-, President Trump makes Recess appointments for the remaining Cabinet slots and SCOTUS, then Congress comes back from its break and ratifies the appointments by the end of the session.  No muss, no fuss, no interminable Democrat bitching and obstruction in the Senate committee process. Just a clean, quick sword cut of brute political power.

Potential hang ups:
1. It is presumed that ratification is not subject to debate and requires only majority vote. If it isn't this will have to be considered and dealt with.

2. It is also presumed that the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, controls the schedule for the Senate and can alter it without interference. If this is incorrect, a way will have to be devised for the Senate to recess.

3. A majority of the Republican Senators should agree on this plan for it to succeed. Without firm majority support, it goes nowhere.

Why is it named the Hydrogen Option?  Because, the Atomic bomb, which people think of when they hear the word Nuclear, was eclipsed in brute power by the Hydrogen Bomb. The Hydrogen Option is also faster, simpler, and less cumbersome than the Nuclear Option.

Perhaps the threat of the Hydrogen Option will cause the Democrats to calm down and be civil.........Nah! 
It may cause them to be more amenable to some kind of compromise though. In any case, President Trump and the Republicans have the high upper hand!! If they'll use it.