#askthewhitehouse: Immigration Reform

Unlike Trump's Twitter feeds the Obama administration once hosted podcasts where people were allowed to interact with the White House directly. This one was on December 11, 2013 where Vice President Joe Biden and Cecilia Muñoz, the President's Domestic Policy Advisor, answered questions about immigration reform live via Skype. I think this one will give us a idea where Joe Biden stood on immigration.


We've all seen Trump speak a million times with reporters and at his rallies. How refreshing it would be to see him do one of these. My how times have changed!

If anyone's interested the Obama White House on YouTube still maintains a large archive.

Our Immigration Policy Will Never Change

The White House Rose Garden, June 30, 2014

Who's that guy... Trump?
If we are to be honest with ourselves almost everything Obama complained about is almost identical to what Trump complains about today. You'd be hard pressed to find major differences between the two. The only difference is which political party gets blamed for their inactions. Congress will bat this ball back and forth forever. No matter who sits in the oval office they're likely to vent till the cows come home and still nothing will come of it.

Around And Around We Go
Obama's tactic was the value immigrants add to this nation. Trump's, the threat they pose. Both are opposites on the same coin. Truth be told neither side will find resolution until congress takes this matter up. Since it's apparent congress won't, it's most likely whichever party gains the congress or White House in 2020 will find themselves cranking like both Trump and Obama did. We've been bitching about this and at each other's throats since forever. If you think each or the other political party is at fault you haven't been paying attention.

Tucker Carlson’s Phony Populism

According to celebritynetworth.com 49 year old Tucker's net worth is $16 Million. His salary, $6 Million.

The College Admission Scandal IMO

In my opinion the reason this has become a scandal is the colleges didn't get their cut.

I think most would agree for decades it was common practice for someone donating big buck$ to a college itself pretty much assured their kids would get in.

The problem here is these folks tried writing checks to college personnel instead to the college itself.



Am I being too negative for my opinion on this issue?
Here's a challenge for my readers. Pick a name on a building at any college of your choosing. Then Google that name to see if any of their offspring attended that same college. I did. I wasn't too surprised with the results. See what you come up with.

We Are So Done Watching NCIS: LOS ANGELES

Every show we watch contains an element of humor. Most of the humor of NCIS-LA has been replaced with gunfire and torture. This past Sunday the show at the very beginning started out with torture. This was not the first time this season. A far cry from prior years when there was plenty of humor.

If you'll note the original NCIS still maintains it humor and in almost all the shows not a single shot is fired. NCIS- NEW ORLEANS is getting a little rougher too, but so far it's still tolerable and maintains most of the humor it always had.

I have no idea who put it in producers heads over at NCIS-LA to make the show much darker. Maybe because it's cheaper to spend 10 or 15 minutes filming shoot ups and people screaming while being tortured. This rather then writing a decent script. Perhaps their writers played too many violent video games as a kid. What ever the reason we will "X" this one our from our viewing schedule going forward.

I Refuse To Buy Streaming Services

We all dreamed one day we could pay for cable channels a la carte. Instead what got are a bunch of greedy pigs wanting us to pay separately for only a few new shows on each we wish to watch via the internet. New shows, instead of being offered all in one place, are now splattered across almost a dozen separate pay venues. Many of these dozens of crap channels cable companies are forced to pay for if they want to air any single channel are the same ones these greedy pig streaming companies own.

Folks what do you think is going to happen when they drive cable TV out of business. Does anyone seriously believe it will be cheaper. Wouldn't it be nice if everything we wanted to watch were all in one place. Yeah it once was. We called it cable TV.

I waited years for TV to go high definition in order to watch on big screen TV. Now these jerks want me to watch it on a iPad or mobile phone. You got to be kidding. Smart TV-- yeah right. A TV that monitors everything you watch and for how long. Even cable companies are getting into the act with their required descramblers we pay extra for to decode their signals which also report our viewing habits. Some broadcasters are even talking about pulling their over-the-air signals.

There was once a day when 3 or 4 over-the-air channels provided all the entertainment produced for free. Right now we watch at most 10 shows a week. At this rate it cost us about $2.50 apiece. How many do you watch and how much do you pay to watch them?

All this greed is getting out of hand.

Current U.S. Policy

(1) Intimidate
(2) Sanction
(3) Demean This policy not only applies to foreign countries but towards one another within as well. The measure of a country or man isn't how apt they are at belittling others. Rather by rising to greatness despite not having to encumber others to achieve it.