Rep. Conaway Visits County Court
District 11 Representative Mike Conaway paid a surprise visit to the Glasscock County Commissioners’ Court meeting April 9. Conaway said he was passing through, and just stopped to check in with local officials.
In a brief conversation with the court, Conaway expressed concern that too many citizens nationwide look to the federal government to solve all problems. He said local folks need to determine what problems are of a local nature, and set about solving them. He said the federal government needs to concentrate on doing very well the things that it should do, and leave the rest alone.
Conaway said the government cannot continue spending at today’s levels on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If it does, in another 43 years, government spending will consume 50 percent of the country’s gross national product, which will mean bankruptcy for our kids and grandkids. But, he said we can make adjustments now that would avoid that long-range problem.
Regarding immigration issues, he said we are doing a better job on our borders, but no progress has been made on a worker program. He thinks most foreign workers don’t want citizenship here, and that citizenship issues should be separated from a worker program. He said workers should waive the right of citizenship for children born here during a work program, and they should have some sort of secure, tamper-proof identification card that would allow them to come and go.