What goes around....

When we lived in Germany in the mid-1960's, the Armed Forces Network did not yet have television in our area. In it's place we listened to AFN radio, saw lots of movies, bought lots of records, and checked out lots of records from the library in the form of Broadway musicals.

One of the musicals we checked out was the 1961 production of Carnival. For some reason that recording struck a chord with the whole family. In 1972 my mother ordered the album from a record store.

One night over the Christmas break I was listening to the album. I made myself a promise that if I ever had the chance I would be in a production of that show. Of course this was one of those things people people promise themselves so they feel better about themselves knowing that the odds of ever having to live up to that promise are slim to none.

Two weeks later I was sitting in class listening to the morning announcements.

"On January 17, auditions will be held for the spring production of Carnival."

The current situation with illegal immigrants reminded me of that. Leftist cities thousands of of miles away from the southern border have been falling over themselves declaring how they are proud Sanctuary Cities and welcome illegal aliens with open arms -- unlike those hateful states actually on the border and having to deal with the fallout. Citizens in those northern cities had nothing to say one way or the other, but they keep voting for the civic leaders who make such claims so they must approve, at least tacitly. If they didn't agree they could have always voted for more conservative officials -- but they didn't.

Previously we saw the Sanctuary City of Martha's Vineyard ship out illegal immigrants that had been sent their way as soon as the Army trucks could get there to take them.

New York officials have commented on how their resources are stretched to the limit because of the migrants being shipped to the Big Apple.

Chicago is facing up to the problem by pretty much taking resources from the citizens of the city and using them to take care of the illegals instead. Reports indicate that the city is spending more money on the illegals than it did for its citizens.

The citizens of Chicago are getting very upset. There is nothing like making a promise then having to live up to it. The question is whether this will prompt them to vote differently in future elections.

While that may be the question, there is no doubt as to the answer.