We can all agree that the United States of America and its people are under attack on many fronts. Terrorists are killing our soldiers. Contaminated food from abroad is poisoning our citizens and pets. Products from abroad that contain harmful chemicals are being sold within our Country.

Multinational corporations are taking jobs away from our workers. Tons of deadly, illegal and addictive drugs are still being shipped into our Country. More than 12 million illegal aliens are hidden within our society and doing who knows what. Worse yet, tens of thousands of illegal aliens are still flowing into our Country each year.

Our balance of payments deficit is now well over a trillion dollars and continues to grow larger with each passing day. Imported oil and the other products that multinational corporations now manufacture in other Countries is the main cause for that problem.

Believe it or not, I have a solution for every one of those truly serious problems, and it won't cost, "We People of the United States of America," one penny more for taxes. So too, it's about time that the people within our, "Department of Homeland Security," do more than cost the taxpayers of our Country tens of billions of dollars.

Their primary function is to safeguard our borders and prevent attacks within our Country by hostile forces, whoever those hostile forces might be. Right?

Well, each and every item that enters our Country should be inspected. So too, an inspection fee should be charged to each and every importer of food, products and/or services that enters into our Country. You see, those deadly, illegal and addictive drugs are still getting into our Country, and that clearly has to stop.

To assist with those inspections, our Department of Homeland Security should also receive the cooperation of the I.N.S., A.T.F., F.D.A., F.B.I., C.I.A. and any other of our agencies who are responsible for our protection and well being. Right?

The question now is to figure out how high those inspection fees should be. Then again, those fees will also equalize the cost of U.S. products verses the cost of foreign made products. The reason why we can't compete with foreign products is because our standard of living is higher than most Foreign Countries. Well, that was true several years ago, and is most likely true today. With that in mind, I propose the following.

Each imported motor vehicle will be assessed a $5,000 inspection fee. Each container of motor vehicle replacement parts will be assessed a $3,000 fee. Each container of other products will be assessed a $3,000 fee. Each barrel of oil will be assessed a $1 per barrel fee. Each shipment of food will be assessed a $1 dollar per pound fee, and so on, until the price of each and every thing that comes into our Country costs just as much as any product that we ourselves can make, mine or suck out of the ground.

I wonder how many of our multinational corporations will decide to put our own people to work in the new factories that they will, no doubt, build within our Country, rather than pay those inspection fees? Your guess is as good as mine.

If you like the above ideas, tell your elected politician about it, and then demand some positive action in regard to saving our jobs, saving our children and saving our standard of living.