[Vision2020] Ted Cruz launches 2016 presidential run

[Nielsen, Ralph (nielsen@uidaho.edu)]

This kerfuffle reminds me of when my parents were living in Calgary, Alberta, Ted Cruz’s hometown.

The pastor of the Lutheran church my mother attended sent his teen-aged daughter to a good, Christian school down in Denver, Colorado. But as it sometimes happens in even the best of Christian schools, his daughter got pregnant and was kicked out of the school. So she came home to Calgary to have her baby and give it up for adoption. Some of the parishioners, including my mother, thought it was not fair to foist an American bastard onto the taxpayers of Canada. 

I know nothing about the details of Ted Cruz’s parentage but is it fair for Canadians to foist one of their children onto the taxpayers of the United States?