Interested in how the ancient judgment of King Solomon could solve the present stalemate in Congress and make everybody “happy?”
In a previous Post titled, King Solomon, Untenable Stalemate on a “Mexican Standoff?” I presented one proposed solution.
Perhaps this alternative “vision” to keep the laws of our Nation from perishing and make everybody happy?
The Purpose to This Post
Is to present a second ancient alternative to bring to a climax the present Congressional stalemate, based on the ancient wisdom method of King Solomon’s judgement.
The Biblical story comes to its climax when King Solomon ordered the boy to be cut in half, resulted to resolve the dispute of who was the real mother of the baby.
You decide if this ancient alternative would also bring to a climax the thirty-three-year-old saga of solving the question of illegal immigration, whether it is unlawful or immoral, that is now dividing our nation.
King Solomon
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that kept the law, happy is he.(Proverb 29:18)
Background
It appears to me that one half of our nation believes it is immoral to wall off our nations borders to prevent people from seeking a better life. They believe and vote for sanctuary cities in their communities.
The other one-half wants our immigration laws to be obeyed and resents having to pay their hard-earned tax money to support illegal immigrants and/or cause their wages to stagnate. They resent sanctuary communities’ laws.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government is legally responsible to be the only lawful agency to maintain immigration laws has become a target of hatred by one half the nation.
What’s the” Vision?”
In the upcoming census, keep the box to be checked that asks if a resident is a legal citizen and keep the census records.
Allow State voters to decide if they want sanctuary communities for illegal immigrants.
If they approve sanctuary communities, or not, so be it.
However, if they do, no federal tax funds will be allowed or appropriated to subsidize social services for illegal immigrants.
What’s My Point?
The previous post solution is another similar method we used as kids to solve game stalemates based on another method to end stalemates. When somebody wanted to do things their way only, they were told the following.
“Put up or Shut up!”
In other words, the USA voter laws are based on an electoral system to represent all the communities in the USA equally to prevent the numerical weight of one segment of voters requiring other communities to obey their values.
If for example, California voters wants sanctuary cities and believe it is moral, allow them to put up or shut up with their taxes funds instead of making other voters pay.
That is exactly what is being done now and has been approved by the Supreme Court for public schools. The court has ruled that a family objects to what is morally wrong to them to be taught to their children in a public school, they have the choice of removing their kids to a private school. However, they must continue paying taxes to the public schools.
In other words, when parents’ morals are brought up for legal consideration, they must make a choice to “put up or shut up.”
As for the census checkbox to declare if a citizen or not, that will prevent a sanctuary community for obtaining both more Federal funding and additional Legislators to represent their “moral” values based on illegal immigrants’ presence in their communities.
If an illegal immigrant lives in a non-sanctuary community and/or breaks a law in another State, deport the individual to the sanctuary State they chose or want to live and let those voters deal with them.
In My Opinion
The territory of the USA is big enough to allow individual communities voters to decide this saga for over 33 years.
Since the Democrats obviously want to do is continue keep talking about the saga for another 33 years,
What the GOP wants to do is enforce the present laws.
Let the voters decide same as parents must decide about schools that offend their morality, same as the mother decided in the Bible story,” put up, or shut up.”
Then either put up with illegal immigrants because of your moral values, or shut up and move away.
If Interested
Read two previous posts about the issues of illegal immigrants and schools in the USA?
You Decide
Wise or Foolish Vision?
Just or unjust Vision?
Moral or immoral “Vision?”
Would this “Vision” make you happy?
Regards and good will blogging.
Source Links
Mexican Standoff
Education
Illegal Immigration for a Job
Rudy u Martinka 
Not sure where King Solomon is getting his assumption that 50% of the country does not favor a wall and votes for sanctuary cities… and the other 50% wants to have immigration laws, no sanctuary cities, and keep their tax money. I think the percentage here is way off… AND.. this is all a bunch of apples-to-oranges comparisons here. You can also add to that, the wild Conservative notion that if someone doesn’t want the wall (as Trump seems to think should be built) then the only logical conclusion is that person wants completely open borders. to let all the drugs, rapists, and murderers in at will… and for mother and children to suck up all the welfare.
Actually, I know of no public person, elected official.. or even any personal acquaintance in the real world, that wants the totally open border you and other Conservatives are suggesting. Do you? Now, given nothing is ever 100% we should assume that at least one person out of the 330 million Americans would love no immigration policy, would they be a threat to worry about?
Sanctuary cities? A grossly overstated impact on overall immigration. Also.. you might want to consult your history as to how all that started. Something like 80% of the illegal aliens in this country are from visa overstays… NOT fence jumping, river crossing, or tunnel digging. The vast majority of this number are contributing wage earners and tax payers.. and few by comparison are languishing on welfare rolls when the jobs are there to make more money, and because of immigration complacency over the decades their descendants are now doing the same and have been Americanized and are getting an education.
Sanctuary cities was in reaction to the government rounding up illegals with established lives and many being part of DACA.
This shutdown is Trump’s fault and he himself was willing to accept the blame… but the ongoing shutdown is also Pelozi’s fault. Ugh!
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Doug,
Is Rep Nancy Pelosi a voter approved representative
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What does that even mean?? Are you trying to suggest Pelozi wants no borders.. let ’em all in! ?? Where? When has she declared that? I have no idea what you are saying here.
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Doug,
OOps, Is Rep Nancy Pelosi a voter elected legislator in the State of California and has stated that it is immoral not to allow people to enter the USA, to find a job and better life?
Isn’t she the same person who refuses to fund a border wall to help border agents prevent illegal immigration and drugs, for the past 33 years?
You own her, in my opinion, if you voted for her. Let entire South America and the 19 million from India, and another billion from China and the Middle East, etc. etc. job applicants come on down and live in California, great weather I hear.
If you want to come back to Addison Il, I will buy you a welcome drink. Otherwise, put up or shut up about Rep Pelosi.
Regards and good will blogging.
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I don’t in the least love Pelozi. In fact, in my own post I suggested once she terminates the shutdown she should resign or be removed from House leadership. But while I may not have any great affection for her I certainly am accurate in her position on current events… and nothing you just attributed to her is true or in any sort of context. Sounds like too much FOX news there, Rudy.
Next time I am in Addison you can buy be a double.
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Doug,
I very seldom watch Fox News, I prefer the new California station OAN, One America News.
I recommend you listen to them for a change other than those late night supposed comedians.
As for you comment how I came up with 50 percent split on the issue, I surmised that since voters chose in the last elections in both the Senate and House to have almost even number of members of approximately 50 percent, the issue of illegal immigration is probably supported the same.
Besides, since the legislatures all vote in blocks to support Congressional Leaders on this issue, I assume they agree or else they would vote for different leaders among themselves
As for Pelosi, you must be smoking something or eating those funny cookies legalized in California to believe she will ever resign, in my opinion.
Like I said before, you California voters voted for the legislators who made your State a sanctuary State and voted for Nancy Pelosi to represent you..
In other words, again, you now have to put up or shut up on your choices,
Regards and good will blogging.
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If you dislike California voters, politics, and sanctuary city nonsense so much what the heck you listening to a Cali radio station for??
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Doug,
They are a rarity in news reporting, in the USA. They actually report the truth.
Actually, just because they are located in California does not mean everyone in California is smoking something funny or eating funny cookies, or contracted brain bacteria,. when they dream up laws.
If Interested
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/03/10/king-solomon-california-laws-travesty-or-distorted/
Regards and good will blogging.
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Next time you hear truth in the breeze from any source, Rudy.. please pass it on. At my age the less brain cells I use.. and the more I can accept what others say without having to think for myself… would allow me more time to watch Gilligan’s Island.
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OAN news Doug, Try it, you will like it., and it will help cure the bacteria affecting a lot of Californian brain matter, in my opinion.
Regards and good will blogging.
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Not only are they cutting the baby in half, they are also throwing it out with the bath water!
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godstillspeakstoday14
You commented, “Not only are they cutting the baby in half, they are also throwing it out with the bath water!”
Interesting comment.
I visited a forest preserve maintained old farmhouse and took a guided tour in a 100-year-old farmhouse which your comment brought to mind another analogy on the issue of Illegal immigration and school choice..
In the farmhouse kitchen there was a bathtub near the kitchen wood burning stove. The tour guide explained there were no bathrooms or plumbing back in those days. Most families would have a weekly bath by bringing in buckets of water from the outside well, heating the buckets on the stove and filling up the tub for the family members to bathe once a week taking turns, using the same bath water.
The oldest family member would be first and followed on down in descending age of the family members in turn.
Your comment “throwing it out the with the bath water”.in relation to the illegal immigrant issue of this post reminded me of overhearing some public-school teachers complaining among themselves that the reason they could not obtain teachers aids in their classes in their schools was the teachers aids were always assigned to help immigrant teacher learn the English language.
The State law required special classes for immigrant children to learn English in order for the school to obtain government funding.
Their complaint being that they had class sizes of 40 plus to teach on their own, whereas the immigrant class had three teachers aids to help assist the teacher to teach immigrant children in a classroom of only five children.
In other words, the descending order in government funded schools is reversed on who gets first attention or first choices of clean bathwater.
Someone said life is not always fair. So, if you pay taxes to send your child to a public school the teachers must give preference to teaching immigrant children according to the law even though your child may be in a large class compared to an immigrant child.
If you bring up school vouchers, your politicians will “throw the dirty water on you for daring to bring up the issue.
Can’t blame it on the immigrant children though. So, who is to blame?
If interested, check out this previous post who to blame for government to have control and responsibility for school choice intead of parents at this link below.
https://rudymartinka.com/2019/01/08/king-solomon-out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire-usa-education-post-three/
Regards and good will blogging.
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First thanks for reading MY blog; I love to get more people involved with what the Lord is doing. As for this debate, I think you have the answer for all the issues, including right to life/abortion issue. I say if you don’t like our country, move to one you do. If you support abortion, YOU should fund the abortion industry! WE resent having to pay for so many who do not share our love of the freedoms we have in our country. Having been to other countries, no matter what problems we have here; there’s no other society I’d care to live in other than this. Lord, have Your way in our country. Amen!
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