All Forum Posts by: Carlton Ellis

It's a bad law attempting to remedy a bad problem where the federal government has totally lacked any pratical or effective policy since the last attempt at immigraton reform in 1986.

The federal government won't REALLY get serious about immigration reform because the dirty little secret is big business wants and needs illegal immigrants for maximum profitablity and they reall have more to do with dictating government policy than the ameican people do.

If the federal government REALLY wants to curb illegal immigration they will start getting serious about border security. That includes a beefed up miltiary presence along the border a bigger budget for the U.S Border Patrol and executives of major corporations doing the "Perp walk" for systematically hiring illegal immigrants particularly in the construction and the agriculture industries.

We've been down that rode with the Reagan Administration and the with Bush 43. The major beneficiaries of lower corporate and income taxes for the rich are the rich. The growing disparity between the wage growth between upper income Americans and others is a testatment to this. The Republican version of "Trickle Down" economics don't trickle down.

As for the belief that opening up oil exploration along the costlines will free the United States from foreign oil dependency I challenge you to show me study the affirms this. The reality is most studies show only modest increases in domestic production will be gained by offshore drilling.

The reality is the addication to carbon based fuels is unsustainable long term. We need to move toward using renewable cleaner sources of energy. It's in our economic and national security best interest.

The key is to focus on areas where it is cost effective to manufacture here and then providing the educational resources to train people for these jobs.

As in many things in life the devil of this case is going to be in the details. The issue here is if Goldman Sachs misrepresented their role in creating mortgage backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and other derivatives. If the SEC has enough proof then Godman Sachs is in fact guilty. However they will have the best legal representation that money can buy. I'm really interested in seeing this case come to trial and what kind of evidence the SEC has against Goldman.

As a former resident of the Dallas Ft. Worth area I still have plenty of love for the Dallas Mavericks.

Go Mavs!

I LOVE this time of year. NBA playoff basketball is simply the best basketball in the world!

In order to have a double dip there had to have been some sort of rise. We haven't had a rise just a period when there were fewer foreclosures. What we had was just a slower rate of decline. This issue really wont' begin to work its way out until the employment and wage picture improves.