John B
You can depart from and take exception to the general trend of this thread...that is your choice and your right.
Being as I am an Aussie I can make no intelligent (or otherwise) comment on those issues you postuate about various of your past Presidents/Parties....we have our own problems here too !!!
That the Banks and Big Business got bailed out of their mess caused by their own greed and/or incompetance is in some ways unfortunate, but sadly, were there not such a "rescue" I shudder to think where the World would be now...a LOT more stuffed than it is.....I hated the way these people were rescued, but I saw little alternative.
This can be debated ad nauseam and we will never all agree on the rights or wrongs of it.
However...and there is always a "however"
...what I must leap in and defend is my own opinion that you are dead wrong in your generalisation that all illegal migrants are only trying to do what is best for them and their families. As far as Australia goes, we see boatloads and boatloads of Illegals arriving (mainly from the Middle East) who look like adverts for Fred Nerks Health Studios...they are not starving, downtrodden beaten individuals, they have paid thousands and thousands of dollars to get air flights to Indonesia which has totally porous borders, there they stay in hotels for many months until they can find a local people smuggler to bring them to Aus....again for many thousands of dollars.
And once they get here, our Govt throws money and every other facility at them...they live a life of luxury and never have to work again....just keep breeding, our child and parenting payments takes care of any expenses they may have.
We , as tax paying, responsible citizens violently object to these "economic refugees" simply wanting their turn in our gravy train...but they dont want to do the hard yards to get there like we did.
By all means, bring in the downtrodden, persecuted and battered people who are truly desperate and let them regain some dignity, pride and sense of worth....but as for the pond-life that currently invades our World in droves...I could care less.
But I am not alone in this thinking...and I am NOT a racist or a "red-neck"
...after all, I was a Migrant too.