If America is the best country in the world, how come we’re such a complete basketcase?

Thanks to those very same conservatives, this entire country now resembles nothing so much as their stereotype of a loser writ large.

This dire economic situation in Mexico is a force that will continue to push immigrants across the border now matter how tough we get on our side. People who are desperate enough to walk for days across the hot desert are not going to be deterred by a bigger fence, more border patrols, or laws about racial profiling. Poverty is the lake that is putting so much pressure on the dam, and only by alleviating poverty can we stop the leaks.

America is, by all standards, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet, on a daily basis, the supposed benefits of living and being born into this standard of living are not felt by many of this society’s most vulnerable members. And yet, for all the talk by anti-abortion activists of how “pro-life” they are, they rarely, if ever, discuss American’s disgracefully high infant mortality rate or put forth any solutions to solving it.