By Ray Cardello for April 14, 2025, Season 31 / Post 34

Most people understand the limitations of their homes before sending out invitations. If you have seating at the table for 10, you do not invite 16; if you only have one spare bedroom that sleeps 2, you don’t invite 8. That is basic and falls under the strained category of common sense. Unfortunately, like reading and math, common sense skills are becoming rare, and thank God for artificial intelligence as we seem to be running short on human intelligence. We already had a housing crisis in America that had become more serious over the last ten to twenty years. This crisis was not because our citizen population was growing. In actuality, American citizens are dying faster than we are having babies, yet our population is increasing because our borders are leaking and letting strangers in. So what happens when you get a genius president like Joe Biden and his diverse team of screaming liberals in charge, and they decide to take down the gates at the border and make entry to America free general admission? You get 15-20 million unknowns passing through, picking up their fully loaded EBT card, their free cell phone, and a bus ride to the city or town of your choice on the taxpayer dime.

On top of that, throw in an untold number of refugees from exotic ports of call like Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Ukraine. You have a new country, but oh, have you got challenges. But the Left got tired of thinking through the plan just before they got to the challenges. Challenges are complex and take far too much effort to solve. They were too busy putting the welcome-wagon swag bags together for their new friends (future voters) of all races, creeds, colors, and, oh yeah, languages. I have no issues with races, creeds, or colors, but the language thing? We will get to that in a minute.

These new “Americans” would need a place to live, but when Catholic Charities dropped them off at the city limits, they only had the clothes on their backs and the new stuff found in their fancy swag bag. They didn’t come with housing, as that fell under challenges that the liberals who invited the new folks didn’t get to yet. So, we set up shelters, took over hotels, and used civic centers to house these people until we could build them new apartments and condos at taxpayer expense. By the way, were these taxpayers asked before their money was taken for such a worthy and humanitarian endeavor? No way, because the liberals knew enough not to ask a question that would draw a resounding no. Just do it. By the way, did I mention the various languages our new neighbors spoke, one of which was not English? That falls under challenges.

We won’t go into medical care because that is a topic for an entire article, and of course, it will be free for our new friends. But how about education? That must fall into challenges, too. How do we assimilate all these new children into our already crowded schools, and how do we cross the language barrier? We pack them in where we can, put temporary classrooms in place, take over and renovate abandoned properties and build new schools. Again, this will mean taking more money away from those dependable taxpayers. We need to hire more teachers, aids, staff, and, oh yeah, about those new languages, more translators. The taxpayers are starting to feel the pain now.

This past week, the city of Lewiston declared they have no room in their schools for new students but, by law, must educate them. So we are officially into the challenges, and the Liberals are out of ideas. They could fill out the invitations, but preparing the meals and setting up the guest bedroom is beyond their capabilities. We have a conundrum of more challenges than answers, so we must resort to the only solution that the Left can muster. Throw more money at it, and the challenge will find its own cure.

This problem is not going away, and Governor Mills has put out an invitation for 60,000 more migrants, which she said we need to fill our summer employment needs. Is there any chance Mills thought ahead to see where they would live? Not a chance. The problem will fester until each city and town solves its unique situation.