If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.