More Arizona

As is quite common in the reality of politics, aspects of different trouble areas are interrelated. This is very true for the current status of American troubles. This statement is not intended to be a prologue to forging a bond between all of the nation's problems and the Obama Administration, although it probably could be done, but rather to show how a single trouble area adversely impacts other aspects of American life.



The most recent patriotic act by Arizona on the issue of controlling illegal immigrants is a prime example.



The current unemployment rate in our nation has been set by Washington at 9.7% which means that officially some 15,160,000 Americans are without a job. In reality that unemployment figure is 26,265,000 [almost 17%] but there are so many limiting conditions imposed by the Obama Administration for the determination of who qualifies as "unemployed" that the accepted "official" figure is the lower one. The official unemployment rate in Arizona is also at 9.7%. This rate is the highest it has been in that State in over a decade. Some 302,000 citizens of Arizona are officially out of work while it is estimated that 460,000 undocumented aliens reside in that State. A good number of these undocumented aliens hold jobs, jobs which could be held by the unemployed American citizens of Arizona.



Our federal government has a debt in the trillions of dollars and Arizona shows a public debt of $37 Billion. It is not hard to visualize that a substantial amount of Arizona's public debt has been incurred by government entities for public education and for police/fire protection and for indigent medical care and for general welfare benefits. It is not possible to calculate how much of this $37 Billion debt, much less the daily on-going state and local governmental expenses, is directly applicable to undocumented aliens. However, with almost 7% of the population of Arizona consisting of undocumented aliens, this money figure must be depressing.

Arizona, by moving forward with a plan by which, without violating the civil rights of even undocumented aliens, can reduce its illegal alien population; reduce its unemployment rate; reduce its governmental spending; and freeze if not reduce its public debt. These are goals, on a national level, that the Obama Administration should have already embraced and upon which it should have acted.

It is easy to see that the issue of undocumented aliens in Arizona and in our nation adversely impacts at least employment and government spending and government financial debt. Arizona, in the the absence of action by the federal government to protect our borders, has taken a bold and patriotic act to correct a situation that Obama has chosen to, at best, ignore.