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To: Cold Heat; k2blader
I would debate that. Most feel that the Bush plan is not amnesty.

amnesty

n 1: a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment 2: a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense [syn: pardon] 3: the formal act of liberating someone [syn: pardon, free pardon] v : grant a pardon to (a group of people)

I think Bush's plan falls under the definition.

Then there is the other question: What makes you think that people that have been breaking the law for years will all of a sudden decide to start following it? What's the incentive. Oh, wait. I know - we'll let them collect social security. No wonder Bush wants to start working on SS right away.

1,763 posted on 02/12/2005 3:38:35 AM PST by raybbr
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To: raybbr
What makes you think that people that have been breaking the law for years will all of a sudden decide to start following it? What's the incentive. Oh, wait. I know - we'll let them collect social security. No wonder Bush wants to start working on SS right away.

Write this thought you came up with on a piece of paper and hang it on the refrigerator.

At some point,you will really wonder how it came to you.

I shot a stray cat the other day who was continuously dragging road kill into my stored boat and destroying the carpets, stinking it up and wrecking the upolstry.

I violated several laws. I could face fines and even jail time. (1yr)

But I am a model citizen and family man with a kid in college and grandbabies.

The penalty for crossing the border that we have now in law is much less severe.

2,102 posted on 02/12/2005 11:46:55 AM PST by Cold Heat (What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
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To: raybbr
Then there is the other question: What makes you think that people that have been breaking the law for years will all of a sudden decide to start following it?

Excellent question!!!

And one the pro-amnesty folks will never be able to answer with any credibility.

2,325 posted on 02/12/2005 4:03:48 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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