Posted on 06/02/2007 7:36:56 AM PDT by GFritsch
Were you aware that if you oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, you “don’t want to do what’s right for America”? President Bush said exactly that about those in opposition to the “immigration reform” bill that he and Teddy Kennedy wish to cram down our throats.
Bush made his remarks in a speech to students and instructors at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga. In the ultimate act of chutzpah, Bush championed the secretly negotiated bill that rewards millions of lawbreakers, in front of those who have chosen law enforcement as a career. Hardly the example I would want or expect from a U.S. president.
President Bush has repeated, mantra-like, that the “guest worker” program he favors isn’t amnesty. He can say it until he’s blue in the face, but any program that enables illegals to obtain a probationary card right away, in order to live and work in the U.S. is amnesty, regardless of what Mr. Bush wishes to call it.
The president is fond of claiming that the bill will “secure our border”. Does anyone really believe that our congress critters (or the president) are serious about securing the border? Remember last year, when Congress approved with much fanfare the building of a 700-mile fence along our southern border? They then quietly never appropriated the money for it. The new bill ( Senate Bill 1348), calls for only 370 miles of fence along the southern border. If they keep adjusting downward, they can probably just borrow the fence from Bush’s ranch in Crawford. Actually, Bush can probably just leave it where it is and announce, “mission accomplished” – at least he would have “border security” against the illegals, even if the rest of us don’t.
Bush also said in his remarks that the bill would “uphold the great immigrant tradition of the United States of America.” What tradition is that Mr. President? The tradition I remember is one in which immigrants came to this nation legally – not by breaking our laws. They came here to learn our language (that would be English, Mr. Bush). They came to learn our culture, our traditions and our history. They came to assimilate, and become proud Americans. They waited their turn, and they played by the rules. This bill rewards those who have no desire to do any of that, and is an insult to all those who have. Our immigrant tradition was one of a “melting pot”. This bill doesn’t simply throw out the pot – it breaks it in the process.
“Don’t want to do what’s right for America” also begs the question, “which America”? I suspect Bush means a North America with no borders. Author and columnist Jerome Corsi has written of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, concerning the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. According to Corsi, the Bush Administration is “secretly on the path to create a North American Union, a new currency – the amero – along the same stealth path that was used in Europe, keeping everything below the radar, by administrative decree, making it too late to stop before the American people finally realize what’s going on.”
Whether or not you buy into a coming “North American Union”, there can be little doubt that this president is a globalist. His stance on immigration (both legal, and illegal), coupled with plans for a “NAFTA Superhighway” are the reflections of someone who is not concerned with such “petty” issues as border control or our national sovereignty. Mr. Bush seems to believe that the more immigrants, the better. Why? Cheap labor, of course. And of course there’s the notion that the illegals “do the jobs Americans won’t do”. The president should know the basic dishonesty of this myth – it isn’t that Americans won’t do those jobs, it’s that they won’t do them that cheaply. As I heard a local radio talkshow host say recently, “If you want a salad with your dinner, pony up the extra nickel so that an American citizen will pick your damn lettuce!”
That’s what this whole thing really comes down to – money. The reason the illegals come here is for money, and U.S. services (which cost us money). The drain on our resources is staggering. Hospitals in border towns have closed due to losses from treating illegal aliens with no insurance. All manner of services including welfare, food stamps and the like have been consumed due to the “anchor baby” provision in our current law. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has just released a comprehensive report on the costs of illegal aliens. It is far too lengthy to cover in a short column, but its conclusions are astounding. From purely a taxes-to-benefits paid ratio, low-income immigrant households are receiving about three dollars in benefits and services for every dollar they pay in taxes. In business, that would be a negative cash flow problem of epic proportions.
Senate Bill 1348 must be stopped, but it will take continued grass roots action to do so.
You can stick a fork in the president – he’s done. True conservatives and those who wish to preserve the American culture know which side he is on. Call your congressmen and urge them to stop this destruction of our nation. Especially call those up for re-election in 2008.
The way to solve our crisis is not with lofty sounding “immigration reform” bills, nor “pathways to citizenship” – no, the answer lies in cutting off the source. Make the penalties so severe against employers knowingly hiring illegal aliens, that it becomes no longer worth the risk. Also cut out the “goodies” – reverse the law granting instant citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens while in the country (anchor babies). If the lure of jobs and “free” services dries up, so will the number of those would try to sneak over our border. That would be doing what is right for America.
Now, to see the same passion and some ACTION against the DNC/MSM would be productive indeed.
THEN, to PRODUCE Conservative candidates, PR firms, Ads, our own big media, our own teachers and professors, films, TV shows, Mags, Law firms, ect.
Now that would actually produce Conservative votes.
Let's roll
LOL, OK.
(wait just a minute, my neighbors have been missing for a few weeks now!)
"On Judges alone Bush has done far more good for the future of the Conservative Movement then all the pseudo Conservative Radio ranters and newspaper scribblers have, or ever will, do for it."
I think you forgot that without Conservative Radio ranters and newspaper scribblers we would have had this women on the court.
Move out of the way and let the rest of us save this country from 20+ million wards of the state.
She was there to take fire only.
Oh please, these pols have been picking their poison on illegals for decades.
Remember when Bennett and Kemp swooped into CA after Prop 187 passed, the lectured them on be racists and being “compassionate”?
Republican/Conservative pols and their supporters have and will always be called racists and bigots, by each other, and by the DNC.
They know they can’t beat the MSM machine, who will destroy them if they deport or cut off illegals, and they know their base will be pissed.
So they pick their poison. And it will remain that way long after the President is gone, and as long as we continue to allow the MSM and Hollywood to run this country.
Good thing that some folks found the time to provide it.
Are you attributing these two words, in this order, without any context, to the president?
That's lower than Dan Rather.
I didn’t write the headline, Invisible; however, if what he is attempting to do with the help of the Long Distance Chappiquiddick Swimmer is right, then many of us are wrong.
You don't understand, see. It is YOUR fault for abandoning him, you have no loyalty, you have no gratitude, you are no better than the leftists, and you are on the precipice of being guilty of treason for not supporting the commander of chief in times of war. This is what the terrists want! It means you hate freedom and you hate America, and must be wunna them Paulies or Buchananites or Cindy Sheehan types. It is YOUR fault, get that through your head.
The Constitution? The Constitution "is just a goddamn piece of paper". Loyalty is far more important than the Constitution.
The DC "working copy" of the US Constitution.
“Interesting that we Americans seem to forget a couple of things when talking about immigration—primarily that we are all descendants of the huddles masses yearning to be free. And that during the day of Ellis Island, all you had to do was get here, with or without “papers”.”
You did not just “get here.” Each immigrant had to face a long,drawn out process at Ellis where your physical body and mental state was checked with a fine tooth comb. Any signs of glaucoma, TB, or mental illness, or even destitution and you were not allowed to go through.
“And, that, if, during WWII if we had let some of those ships in to the US, fewer Jewish people would have been exterminated like bugs by the Nazis.”
Blame the great Democrat and humanitarian, FDR, for that one. We should have let them come in because the US does make allowences for special cases such as the Cubans.
“It’s the same as saying “Well, I passed the bar exam, now let’s tighten up the rules and make it harder for the rest”.”
Nonsense. Rules have to be followed when taking a bar exam. You can’t cheat on the exam then say “Well, I made a good grade, so I deserve to be a lawyer anyway.”
Their “surprise” that a President who ran on “Compassionate Conservatism” and working with Dims, rings hollow. Who in the Republican primary did they support? McCain? Forbes? Bauer?
We would have more Conservative candidates stepping up to run, win, and STAY in office if we had a Conservative media to rival the MSM’s 24/7/365 political campaiging.
Then Republican/Conservative candidates and officholders would have cover, communication apparatus, context, time, ect.
Looking at Congress now, very few Conservatives remain or even run, we are basically underground.
Your posting history proves conclusively that you are completely overcome with rabid Bush hate. The factual merits of any argument are irrelevant to you.
Your position, like most of the Dincons hanging out on this website, is wholly determined by which side Bush is on. What ever he says, YOU oppose.
Frankly if you Dinocons actually want to help the Conservative Movement, GET OFF OUR SIDE. Your sort of knee jerk back stabbing and hysteric overly emotional ranting does our cause much more harm then good.
Just wow! Conservative media has lost it. Instead of WORKING hard and PRODUCING conservative voters, (which are sorely lacking in our fellow citizens), they agitate for a coup. I'll chalk this up to stress, extreme stress.
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