This whole post is full of misinformation and faulty assumptions.

First of all, we’re the richest nation on the planet, and even our debt is held in dollars which we control as the global reserve currency. If we can’t afford to accept immigrants, no country anywhere can. The US was far less wealthy a century and more ago when it had a (mostly) open-border policy.

Second, not that this article was about it, but Trump’s immigration ban had nothing to do with “bar[ring] the invasaion of our country by an alien force of radical Islamists,” because no such threat exists. There is no “Trojan horse army” trying to “destroy us from within.” The rhetoric you use here sounds literally paranoid, and has no basis in fact. Immigrants from the countries on Trump’s list have killed exactly zero Americans in living memory. When people try to motivate you with that kind of fear, you should be very, very skeptical about whatever they’re selling. If you’re genuinely concerned about the safety of the American people, there is a long, *long* list of factors that pose far higher risks to our lives and health than immigrants.

Third, not that this is relevant either, but there is no “welfare plantation,” and we do not have “a large segment of our population… already on the dole.” Indeed, the welfare system as you seem to be thinking of it literally hasn’t existed for 20 years.

Fourth (as you continue to throw random topics at the wall), far from being “nonexistent,” the Social Security trust fund is in perfectly fine shape. The latest report shows it holding $2.8 trillion, with projections (always very cautious and conservative) showing it solvent through 2034, and it’s widely understood that all it would take to keep it solvent beyond the longest-term (75 year) time horizon would be to lift the regressive income cap on payroll taxes.

Fifth, we do not send “vast amounts of our money” to other countries that hate us, or for that matter even to ones that like us. US foreign aid is less than one percent of the federal budget, proportionately far less than most other developed countries, and even most of that has dual purposes, serving our own strategic our security interests as much as the interests of the recipients.

Bottom line, you are living in a world disconnected from reality, from actual facts and evidence and logic. You are the very definition of a low-information voter, the sort of person the author was writing to help inform. You need to set aside your facile assumptions and consider how best to deal with the world as it actually is, in ways that are effective, economically efficient, and morally accountable.