OK Guest Worker Program, With Conditions

Jon Dougherty's The Commoner Blog ^ | 12/29/04 | Jon E. Dougherty

[NewRomeTacitus]

Take all the money from Unemployment taxes, health insurance and employee "benefits". Force the employee to have it deducted from his paycheck and put in his Rainy Day Savings Account. It is his money. If he does not spend it, it is his to keep. But it is available for his Rainy Day. This will rationalize what is now an irrational system that makes us uncompetitive.

A step back from Socialism and an incentive/motivation toward personal responsibility! I can almost hear Hillary hacking up a hairball over the prospect.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Excellent summation. No matter how many "positives" Bush's proposal puts forward the negatives it unleashes compounds the overall problem. No real solution begins without securing our border. While I'm for installing automatic fire-on-detection systems in ports along a 20-foot high razorwire topped concrete wall for the 1,000 easily traversed miles too many of our citizens lack the common sense to see the need for it. The immediate savings would pay for the investment while our entire society would gain (excepting the neo-slavers, but they should be doing hard time anyway).

Is our country worth preserving or defending? I believe those who place "inclusiveness" and other liberal theories above that should be forced to spend time in the socialist utopias their form of thinking espouses - Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and China, to name a few. Those nations have this odd notion that they should shoot first and ask questions only when pressured by stronger forces to do so. If we're the remaining superpower why aren't we taking any measures to preserve that standing (especially at a time when a pseudo-religion's adherents are striving to destroy us)?

[Regulator]

While I'm for installing automatic fire-on-detection systems in ports along a 20-foot high razorwire topped concrete wall for the 1,000 easily traversed miles

Sounds good to me. The best part of it would be the message it sends to a certain government just to the south: we aren't weak, we're willing to do what we have to, so stop screwing with us. Thugs understand force. They'll stop.

Is our country worth preserving or defending?

It amazes me to read the crap that I see on this forum where people seem to have an indifferent attitude towards the future of the country. America lost to Mexico? Is that the epitaph that they will write on freedom's grave? How pathetic. How disgusting. What was once the greatest example of human endeavor...given up to the demands of one of the worst. A place of grinding injustice, oppression, chaos and lawlessness, dominated by strutting patrons who create nothing, and steal everything.

I can't imagine what future historians would write about such a thing happening. I suspect that they would conclude that democracy was a fraud, too weak to support itself, and that benign dictatorships would be better.

It's our job as a generation to make sure that doesn't happen on our watch.