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Mike • 42 minutes ago

Native Arizonan here. John McCain came home from Vietnam 43 years ago. He was not from Arizona and I doubt he knew much at all about the state. Shortly after his return to the states, John Rhodes, a long time conservative from the east valley retired his seat in the House of Representatives. This district in the 1970’s was one of the most conservative districts in the country. McCain used his status as a POW to win that seat. Nothing wrong with that at all, but in all those years, McCain has learned nothing. When he ran for President in 2008, he admitted he knew little about the economy or economics. He portrays himself as an expert on Military matters, but the fact that he was a POW more than 40 years ago does not lend itself to that expertise.

McCain finished last in his class at the Naval Academy, and prior to that, was only admitted to the school as a legacy because both his father and his grandfather were admirals. From what I understand, he was tortured in Vietnam, and did not give in to that torture. However, he was not a war hero. He was indeed a terrible naval pilot and there were incidents on his carriers prior to his being shot down over North Vietnam on his first mission.

I think John McCain has been rewarded for his POW status for a very, very long time. More than is warranted in my opinion. He is going to run again, and as in all his past campaigns, he will use his POW history to win votes. There is a very large demographic of retired and active military in Arizona. In addition, all the blue hairs vote for him in block.

Trump is receiving the bump he currently has because he is the only candidate to even discuss illegal immigration. I do not believe Trump is a long time republican and possibly not a conservative, but a lot of people are tired of America being the dumping ground for the world’s less desirable.

The “comprehensive immigration bill” that McCain, Graham, Rubio and Shumer, among others, worked out, was a disaster. It would have allowed, starting this year, a equal number of legal immigrants into the country as the number of native born Americans who turned 18. This would have continued for at least 20 years. The comprehensive immigration bill was simply a means to replace the native born population. In addition, the bill would have massively increased legal immigration and as always, would have done nothing about illegal immigration across the Mexican border. Eventually, the country would be over run. The net increase in population of countries in the developing world, which are basically all countries outside of the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, is 88 million people per year. That is not births, that is the net increase of births over deaths. How much of that increase every year to open border advocates wish us to absorb? Do any of you ever give a moment’s thought to what kind of country we will be with 400 million, 500 million, 600 million or more look like? What kind of lifestyle will we have? What kind of physical environment?

The reason middle class wages, and lower middle class wages, are declining is because of large scale immigration. It’s simply supply and demand for labor. The chamber of commerce wants endless immigration as a means to compete with China on labor costs, and the democrat party wants an endless supply of low information, uneducated voters.

McCain simply wants accolades from the MSM. Trump is greatly flawed, but at least he speaks to what many people want to hear on this issue. McCain does not. America is not a empty continent needing to be settled and populated. The population now approaches almost 350 million people with millions more coming legally and illegally every year.

I do not care to continue my life in a country with the density and environmental quality of India