Jeff's Commentary - 7/29 - The Day After SB 1070

Well the world didn’t end yesterday when US District Court Judge Susan Bolton ruled against the heart of SB1070. If you were surprised by the ruling you shouldn’t have been. Federal jurisdiction and law simply overrides state law. From day one, that has been the argument of the government. And it held true in the ruling.

No one suggests there is not an immigration issue in Arizona and other border states. What is frustrating is that our esteemed leaders in the land of DC can’t seem to get their heads out of the sand and set a policy that addresses the issue. Oh…I forgot...we are in an election year and no one wants to touch this with a ten foot pole. Also not surprising from a group of catfish that run our federal government.

What I don’t get is the failure on the part of the Obama administration to not at least address the border issue of manpower.

The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 counties around the world. Many of these personnel are still located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the U.S. government sought to counter the Soviet Union. Why not end this misuse of funding and bring more troops to the Border States where the military could actually make a difference fighting the real bad guys at home.
Do you realize we have 57,080 US Soldiers in Germany? Germany for gosh sakes. Let’s see, this is the same country that barely has lifted a finger in our fight against terror. They are the richest of the European countries. Why are we still there? And we still have over 32,803 troops in Japan. Another stalwart in helping out in the fight against terror. While we are spending a gazillion dollars in these countries helping their economies with our troops, our borders go porously open.

When are we going to get leadership that slap down these old military directives and end the excessive spending in countries that no longer need nor want our support? Can you imagine the economic engine created by having these 89,883 troops alone in Arizona? Not only would our borders become more secure, but our communities would grow and prosper.

So while the courts now will be absorbed with sorting out SB1070 for the next year, let’s start demanding real change. We need to start with our military deployment in foreign countries we no longer need to be in and bring our troops home to where they best can serve us, the people. The “War on Terror” starts right down a few miles from Tucson. Germany and Japan don’t need our military might any longer……but the farmers along the border sure could use a hand.

Jeff