Posted on 11/05/2008 10:48:59 AM PST by happygrl
Earlier this month Congress and President Bush committed $700 billion of our children’s and grandchildren’s money in a desperate effort to stave off a financial meltdown. Judging from the reaction of the markets, that sum may only be a small down payment on the real cost of decades of criminally irresponsible policies promulgated in Washington and on Wall Street.
Even from our vantage point in the midst of an unfolding catastrophe, its causes are easily identifiable: Greed and reckless expediency on Wall Street and greed and reckless irresponsibility in Washington... At the intersection of Greed and Recklessness & Greed and Recklessness stands U.S. immigration policy. Immigrants are not to blame for the nation’s economic crisis, but immigration policy as it has been implemented (or ignored) over the past several decades is both emblematic of and a major contributing factor to the circumstances that landed our nation in the current mess.
Immigration policies have flooded the American labor market with tens of millions of workers we neither need, nor could really afford. The net effect of decades of mass immigration was a heavily subsidized labor force that was sustainable only as long as the industries that employed them could pass the costs off to the public sector, and government could get away with borrowing vast sums of money.
As the number of immigrants grew, they, and self-anointed ethnic advocacy networks, became a political force to be reckoned with. Under extreme pressure from groups like the National Council of La Raza to increase minority home “ownership,” politicians from both parties leaned on the financial industry to make irresponsible mortgage loans, even if it meant waiving sound lending practices.
(Excerpt) Read more at kcbq.townhall.com ...
well you won’t be “happygirl” for long....the Open Boarders group is now in charge of the Asylum.....
It be over.....
The catch-22 is that if you turn the economy around, you also start attracting more illegals to come accross the border.
Good article and thanks for posting...
First, need to purge the GOP of any and all pro-illegal/anti-American House and Senate members. Running McCain as President was an absolute total fail.
Running McCain was a bad idea, it took the illegal alien issue off the table...illegal alien amnesty proponents claim of “winning the Hispanic vote” was a total failure...Obama won Hispanics 2 to 1....with the GOP running the author of the generous Illegal Alien Amnesty bill.
Second, opposing illegal alienism (the more accurate term, not “Immigration Reform”) will bring in many non-GOP voters, who are tired of losing jobs to illegals, and, paying more in taxes to support them
Third, need to seperate the terms “illegal alien” from “Immigrant”. Immigrants are not illegal aliens, and grouping them together is nothing short of bigotry. Legal immigrants are also not in favor of illegal alienism or amnesty
WTF? YOU, who joined FR this year specifically to stump for Juan McCain, are complaining about the Open Borders and Amnesty crowd being in charge? LMAO!
This is one issue where we would have lost no matter who won this year.
I still like MCains position on the borders....but THAT is not the position we’re about to see .....his is conservative by comparrison...so all the railing aainst him over this....just helped Obama.
PS...WTF back at ya
HGTV viewers would say that is an interior with "good bones."
I voted for McCain (actually against Obama), but that doesn't change my original point. No matter which of these two won this year, we were going to lose on the issue of illegal immigration. Fat lot of good McCain's pro-amnesty position did him. He still got creamed by Obama among hispanics.
Good luck with that.
Obama has illegal aliens in his own family. He isn’t about to put roadblocks in front of the rest of them.
Yep, McCain running removed several big issues from the playbook, Illegal Immi., Small Gov., Conservative Principles, etc, etc...w/o Gov. Palin, McCain would have been routed in 40+ states. I wish McCain would just retire, he is washed up just like Dole!
btt
“It be over.....”
Oh, don’t you just wish. You see nothing wrong with your chosen politicos going against the VAST majority of citizens, do you?
Zogby Post-Election Poll Reveals No Mandate for Illegal Alien Amnesty
Market Watch ^ | Nov. 10, 2008 | Zogby/Market Watch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130830/posts
/PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — A nationwide survey of actual voters reveals that Americans strongly support immigration enforcement, and that less than one-third of Obama voters favor granting amnesty to illegal aliens. The poll conducted by Zogby International on behalf of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on November 5 and 6 also found that a decisive majority of voters believe that an illegal alien amnesty would “further harm the interests of struggling American workers.”
Among the key findings of the poll are:
— Only 32% of Obama voters considered his support for amnesty as a factor in their decisions to vote for him. 67% said it was either not a factor at all, or they voted for Obama in spite of his stance on amnesty.
— 60% of voters said reducing illegal immigration and cracking down on employers who hire them is important to them, while only 21% supported “legalizing or creating a pathway to citizenship” for illega; aliens.
— 57% of voters stated that amnesty would harm American workers and further strain public resources, while only 26% believe amnesty would aid economic recovery and ease public burdens.
what blather...
it has nothing to do with me...Obama has made the decision...it’s over....spew at him.
Go spew at your boy McCain, who wrote the amnesty bill and will likely write the next one....and you’ll be right there with him, won’t ya?
Why do you want to hang out here with conservatives?
And no, I really don’t care what your answer is.
I see that rational discussion of complex issues is outside of your skill set. LOL
There is no way to discuss John McCAin and your support of his amnesty rationally.
Buzz off. Don’t you have some indigent illegal alien you could help today instead of pestering the adults?
bla-bla bla...spewing is not rational discussion of a complex and important issue. And blaming McCain for what Obama is about to do...is equally irrational. It’s over anyway...Obama will grant more amnesty than McCain EVER thought of....and you should learn to say “Ola!”
If you can’t keep up on a topic...might want to go read something simple and soothing.
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