Posted on 03/11/2010 2:21:56 PM PST by dscott8186
While reading an article on low tax Texas vs. high tax California, it reminded me of the quickly dropped issue of the US Census. Last years scandal revolved around President Obama making some of his White House flunkies overseers of the Census. We all understood the implications of a highly partisan administration attempting to influence the outcome of the count. That being some states will be winners and others losers when it comes to the House of Representatives, along with federal funding. Given the predilections of this politician, padding the count is the Chicago way.
I would like to draw everyones attention back to something we have lost sight of regarding the Census. The counting that is done is without respect to citizenship. When the Founding Fathers wrote the provision of the Census into the Constitution, the intent was to count people who were current citizens or becoming citizens by virtue of choice, i.e. voting with their feet to live here. In todays environment, we have some 13 to 20 million people illegally residing within the borders of our country who for the most part are economic sojourners with little desire for the responsibilities that come with citizenship. Furthermore, most of these people are here due to the incompetence of our government in securing the borders and to add insult to injury recently those (DHS) who enforce the laws have intentionally turned a blind eye to their presence. In all cases, local political officials have misused their positions of power to attract as many of these people as possible by refusing to and in most cases obstructing the enforcement of the law.
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California has five (5) more House seats than it should because illegals were counted in the last census.....in other words, five (5) more leftie democrats!
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