“We have credit card companies that can do miraculous things. If we don’t believe that we can come up with this kind of capability, we’re just not thinking very hard. It’s time we start to legislate those sorts of things and start those kinds of things, because it’s too important,” he said.

Goddard, however, supports the recent provision to better monitor Social Security fraud and notify employers when a worker identification number doesn’t match up with information an employee provides during application for a job.

The U.S. has yet to put enough pressure on the Mexican government to become part of the solution of the U.S. immigration issue, said the retired commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins Air Force Base.

“It’s a cooperation between two governments that makes it work. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be working hard with (Mexico). The trouble is the environment of Mexico. It’s a corrupt, corrupt country, and we can’t force a government necessarily to do things that you want it to do, but we can prove to the government of Mexico that’s in their best interest to work with us, rather than be an antagonist to us,” he said.

Marshall likes to paint himself as conservative, yet he is not, said Goddard. Current leadership in Washington, which Marshall voted to put in place, is taking the nation down a “very dangerous” path, he said, which doesn’t focus on the common core values upon which the U.S. was founded.

“It’s not a course that most Georgians believe in. It’s a course of socialism, and the leadership in the House in some of the recent things they’ve passed clearly indicate that they are very intent on increasing taxes significantly and increasing spending significantly. And that leadership is part of Jim’s leadership in the House, and I just don’t agree with it,” Goddard said.

“... PAYGO is a joke. They haven’t measured up to complying with that,” he said, holding up as an example the recently-passed SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) bill that channels federal funds into state-run insurance programs, such as PeachCare for Kids.

The “egregious” burden of funding the SCHIP program would come from a tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products if the president doesn’t veto it, which Goddard predicts he will.

“I don’t think people should be smoking, but the fact is it’s legal in this country to smoke and there are many people who do. The Democratic Congress has decided that we’re going to fund this enormously expensive program that takes people — a family of four that makes $82,000 a year, and we’re going to take their kids and give them free medical care and we’re going to put that on the back of people who smoke. When we talk about PAYGO, it’s interesting, but you can’t increase spending at the rate they’re talking about.”