Birth Tourism?14th Amendment Needs Changing

The United States is one of the few countries which grants citizenship to all babies born here of non-citizens or residents.  In recent years “Birth Tourism” has been a way for illegals or others ‘just visiting’ to have their child be granted citizenship because of being born here.

This is an incentive for unauthorized entry into the United States, and then turns around and ‘rewards’ that entry with U.S. citizenship to a child born of non-residents! It’s a loophole which needs to be closed. As regimes crumble all over the world to war or civil unrest, as natural disasters destroy cities worldwide, the business of pandering to pregnant women and their families has grown.  “Birth suites’” are offered in hotels such as the Marmara Manhattan, a luxury Turkish owned hotel in New York’s upper east side.

When a child is awarded U.S. citizenship, a foothold can be established  to bring in other members of their family. With this new status the child is entitled to many rights their parents could only dream of in their country.

This practice should be stopped.  Unless one of the parents IS an American citizen the child should not immediately be granted citizenship.  If you come here from Mexico, Africa, the Middle East or wherever — and YOU and your spouse are NOT citizens?  Guess what?  No automatic citizenship for little  Pedro, Yamballah, Ali, or Schlomo !

Our laws are wonderful things but some are, sadly outdated.  They need to change.

Fast Food Wars – Disgusting Eats

KFC Double Down®

Here we go again:  another ploy by fast food to win YOU over with some revolting new invention that their competitors don’t have.  The KFC Double Down® is a bun-less ‘sandwich’ with bacon, cheese and sauce in the middle.  I gagged in horror when I clicked on the article and the picture exploded on the screen!  How can anybody in their right mind – or stomach – eat this?  It’s got 1,380 mg. of sodium, but then again, all of KFC’s ‘food’ is chocked full of it.  The calories are 540 and it contains 32 mg of fat.  The supposed ‘healthier’ version, the grilled one has 1,430 mg. of sodium, only 460 calories and 23 grams of fat.

Another disgusting fast food offering is the BK Quad Stacker.® WHO needs to eat four burgers in one sitting?  How about 6?  Click HERE to make yourself really sick!

Hardees® has always been tops in the fast food disgusto offerings.  Their $6 Burger tops in at 890 calories, 2040 grams of sodium and 54 grams of fat!

Ah, but all you have to do is take your Lipitor and everything will be fine, right?

Fast Food Addiction=Sad Food Choices

I could only shake my head in astonishment at what I was hearing! I  had to keep remembering to close my mouth as I was sitting there with it just hanging open in disbelief! Here is an example of the food mentality all too common today with children.

A woman and her two adopted children:  she’s in her early 60′s, they are in their early teens. All are (no surprise) overweight, one of the girls who is quite short, probably under 5 feet, is well over 100 pounds over weight.  The other is a bit taller and probably close to 75 pounds heavier than she should be.

I listened in horror at this story.  Because their food is charged to a credit card, last month the food expenses were about $1800.00.  Four hundred dollars of that was spend at McDonald’s.  Some days they eat there 2 or 3 times a day. Their other favorites are Burger King, Pizza Hut and Wendy’s.  The girls eat no vegetables; the Mom doesn’t cook because she’s too busy.  Their beverage of choice is sweetened ice tea.  They buy 5 pounds of sugar a week for the tea.  Yes — you read correctly:  five POUNDS. With the exception of a Sunday dinner, there don’t seem to be any other homemade meals that are served.

The sad thing is they don’t seem to care.  THIS is food to them! They laughed at the whole thing;  howled as they told the story! The long-term consequences of this is absolutely frightening!  The Mom is compounding her medical problems by eating this diet.  The girls are surely headed (if not already) for diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries and other ailments cause by fast food or a diet lacking in essential vitamins and minerals. They get no exercise at all.

Neither of the girls knows how to cook even a simple meal.  They aren’t inclined to learn, either.  Why should they… when McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King are so readily available?

Part of this is from advertising, part from convenience.  Mickey D’s (and others) with their campaigns and never ending product offerings have hoodwinked these woman, and millions like them. They’re TOLD it’s good food.  They’re promised that their fast food has gotten healthier, but HOW can this be healthy when the meat comes from animals treated with antibiotics, growth hormones, fed offal from dead chickens and processed in a way that could essentially make them sick from fecal contamination? Then there are the additives and chemicals used to make the buns, flavor the meat, breading and make up the ‘ice cream’ and flavor the shakes.  What about the pesticides that the cows and chickens have eaten on their grain or are in the vegetables (what little there are) on the sandwiches.  All ingredients in these meals undoubtedly come from fields treated with pesticides and herbicides such as Round-Up and are probably all made from GMO crops!

I later told the Mom and IF… for ONE MONTH… they ate real food, no fast food and used a sweetener such as stevia for their tea… that they all would lose weight, probably without exercising. Their calorie intake as it is right now must be thousands of calories a day…, never mind the salt, sugar and fat consumption! Of course, they’d have to be willing to TRY new food such as eggs, fruits, breads, grains, beans, salads and consume far less meat and processed food.  Their tastes at present are addicted to fast food and it’s a sad testimony.

Is it too much to make a simple breakfast between the three of them in the morning?  How difficult would it be, with all of them participating every evening, to make a home-cooked meal?  Is it so impossible to cook something beforehand, freeze it and have it on a night when they might be in a hurry to be elsewhere?

I still say it:  required reading in schools should be “Fast Food Nation”  by Eric Schlosser and Morton Spurlock’s “Don’t Eat This Book-The Supersizing of America”.  Required movies should be “Fresh, The Movie” and “Food, Inc”

Kids like these are heading toward health problems and an early death. Their generation is the first one that studies show,  that may not outlive their parents.  Already rampant are health issues never seen before in their age group.  These two girls are very likely to have a major health event such as a stroke, cancer of some kind or heart attack by their 40′s or 50′s.

It’s their food choices, bite at a time, that will doom them!