Posted on 12/04/2012 1:03:32 PM PST by Mozilla
Former President George W. Bush ambled back into the spotlight Tuesday to laud legal immigration, a decade after he helped inflate the real-estate bubble to its 2007 peak while trying to boost homeownership among Hispanics.
“America is a nation of immigrants. … Immigrants can help build a dynamic tomorrow. … They invigorate our soul,” Bush said at the keynote speech of a one-day symposium on immigration’s role in the economy at the Dallas-based George W. Bush Institute.
“Growing up in Texas we have had the honor and privilege of meeting many of the newly arrived,” the former president said. “They see education as bright future for their children, some will willingly defend the flag.”
That pitch was echoed by several panel speakers, including Steven Moore, a libertarian economist and columnist at the Wall Street Journal. On one trip to border farms, Moore enthused, he met a crop-picking Mexican who was working three low-wage jobs.
“That’s the kind of person we need in this country,” he declared.
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Sure, banks trade in various types of illegal funds, but this is more direct than that.
Many employers of illegals are big GOP donors. Their epicenter is Texas, and Texas pols (hello, W) are the biggest toadies for pro-amnesty donations in a party full of toadies.
Me too. W’s second term was such a disaster its not even funny.
Come to my town. It is not invigorated it is one nasty, dangerous place now with high unemployment as the cherry on top.
Really? He has kept his mouth shut about the Rats’ destruction of our country, their stealing of the election, yet he shows up to push this garbage.
To think I voted for him twice, FReeped the WH and the VP’s residence in 2000, stood in the cold and rain to see his first inaugural parade and swearing in. I cried tears of joy and relief when he took the oath. I am now so disappointed and disillusioned.
Sorry! That was Bawney Fwank!
Just sayin’!
W was right along for the ride remember w his “ownership society” agenda.
Remember who appointed Bernake?
Could be that all it is is W got a grant from the Volag people.
From http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/the-history-of-the-matching-grant-program
...The September 11th terrorist attack brought a halt to refugee arrivals and a virtual cessation of enrollments into the MG program. Facing a potential decay in the service infrastructure due to the lack of enrollments paid on a per capita basis, ORR responded by providing funding to maintain staff salaries through the end of the calendar year irrespective of fourth quarter enrollments. ORR permitted Volags to retain $1,000 for each unfilled previously approved slot. These “unearned” funds of the per capita grants, were to be used to retain the staff infrastructure. Volags were required to match the $1,000 with $500 in cash and in-kind contributions. ORR further directed Volag affiliate staff to review the status of MG clients served and provide additional service and resources to assure their self-sufficiency as needed. This became known as the “50% solution”...
Sounds like just the thing to unshackle the imagination of the embedded political/bureaucracy after all the pre-conditioning that took place after WWII.
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Refugee-Policies-Refugees-and-the-cold-war.html
But, he also tried to reel in Fannie & Freddie.
Does this make the “Day in the life of Bush” thread?
Too little too late.
They did nothing on the rampant fraud by mortgage bankers and appraisers that was widespread etc.
He is not solely to blame but he contributed his part to the mess.
The Bushes and the Kennedys, two families whose current generations inherited weatlth and postion they did little to earn. It seems they are just eaten up with white guilt and inheritor’s guilt, and they must act out by flooding this nation with poor immigrants from third world nations. There’s always been something very weird going on with the later generations of some of America’s most prominent families, and we’d all have been far, far better off if they’d never been ‘called’ to enter public ‘service’.
W has some sort of phsychologtical disorder when it comes to immigrants from poor nations. I dislike the Bushes more with each passing day, and I was never too thrilled with any of them.
Cheaters cheat because they are dependent. Bush is basically encouraging cheating hubristic immigration and antiamericanism, and thus is just of the same cult of dictators who promote dictatorship.
Strange for a guy who made speeches to troops about removing dictators in the Middle East... but then again, he only spoke of “regime change”.
These guys must hate our military.
Indeed, inheritor’s guilt and dependency it is. Not much different than the welfare guilt which breeds inadequacy and feelings of seeking to enslave oneself to the very immigrants who came here as voluntary servants.
In other words, it is not about immigration, it is Bush asking to be subserviant to governant organs like the UN. This is the real message.
He did the same thing when he went to RUssia and said that we were bad at math and we needed Russian engineers. The guy is a complete turd.
Well said. There is a socialist element coming from South of the border that only cares for socialism and is not being educated properly. They don’t want to be part of the existing American culture but create their own. This nation can’t handle more of them.
Yeah, we need more practioners of Santa Muerte in this country. Read what is happening in Ventura County, that’s Ventura County, USA. not Ventura County, Mexico.
I want my formerly civilized country back!
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/ventura_county&id=8887246
Hope Jeb falls flat on his face, but don’t sell the Bush family short. They will probably get a lot of faux conservatives to run in the primaries so that the conservative vote gets chopped up in a million pieces. I believe that is what the powers-that-be did in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
Hope Jeb falls flat on his face, but don’t sell the Bush family short. They will probably get a lot of faux conservatives to run in the primaries so that the conservative vote gets chopped up in a million pieces. I believe that is what the powers-that-be did in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
There is a way that a good conservative could take this Hispanic vote issue and turn it against the Democrats. All he/she would have to do would be to ask the question— do illegal aliens really only do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do? How do we know that they are not taking jobs away from Americans? This is a question that needs to be asked, then the sympathy would go to Americans not the illegals.
There needs to be a good study done that would look into the efect of illegal immigration on American workers.
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