Posted by
sgtmajorbrad on Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:50:30 AM
For those that have programmed for a living you probably
remember the IPO and HIPO charts that your manager wanted before actually starting
coding. The translations for the acronyms are Input Process Output and Hierarchal
Input Process Output. They were used to insure that your logic worked prior to
ever touching the keyboard or the key punch machine as some of us old timers
remember. Whatever was the expected input was processed to the desired output
be it input to another program or subroutine, print or data to be permanently
stored. In these diagrams was a decision symbol in the shape of a diamond. This
symbol related to a test of the data or variable to meet a certain condition
and the program would branch to a specified subroutine, location or exit
completely depending on the programmer’s wish. It was normally entered at the
top of the diamond with the test written inside the boundaries of the symbol.
Two of the remaining points were deemed the exit of the decision according to
the result of the test being yes or no.
Immigration can be explained just as easily as the
programmer’s decision symbol. Enter…Are you legally entitled to be here?...Yes
= Welcome, No = leave and get legal or leave and don’t come back.
Let’s try this on some pertinent immigration related
questions…Do we give in-state tuition to illegal aliens?...Are you legally
entitled to be here = no; so we don’t give in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
That was simple enough and actually fun. Let’s try some more.
Should we give free health care to illegal aliens….Processing….NO.
Should we let them rent in our communities….Processing….NO!
Should we give them social security benefits….Processing…NO!
Should we let the own property…Processing…NO!
Should we give them Driver’s licenses….Processing….NO!
Should we give their anchor brat citizenship…Processing…NO!
Should we educate their spawn at the citizens expense…Processing…NO!
In 1986 the government, over my extreme dismay, granted
amnesty and the same arguments then are being used today. IN that agreement it
was stated that this was a onetime shot for Amnesty…well they had their shot
and everyone following knew the rules and decided to break them so we should
treat the illegal with the same compassion and respect he had for our laws when
he broke them by being or entering here illegally. For all other questions
refer to the decision symbol above.