Posted on 09/23/2011 6:54:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I’m not into mannerisms, facial expressions or body language. I shouldn’t be because I’m not schooled in them. I’m simply in to a strong leader with a commanding presence, who’s for America and has the experience and will to get us through our problems. So far, I’m unimpressed with the team we have. Herman Cain comes closest to what I want, but I’m still not completely sold.
Who gets the Rio Grande river? The USA or Mexico? Or do you run the fence down the middle of the river?
Those sentences don't work together. If they are here to better themselves because their own countries are corrupt hellholes they are going to give a damn about the US.
But let's recognize that a lot of these illegals have no character and are here to milk the cow without contributing either by criminal activity or by freeloading off of social services.
Let's agree this group should be weeded out and expelled. Why would you think kids who have graduated from an American high school and are going to college and paying for college -- remember they are not getting scholarships but are simply being given the state residential rate -- fall into this category?
Or that you don't have to put up with bad dictators.
But you are right. An open border is a very bad idea.
If you are looking for an historical example, rather than Texas, look up the Germanic tribes crossing of the Rhine in 406 AD which led to the fall of Rome.
Texas is not going to be saved with this invasion.
Here's the deal, federal law says that you cannot give preference to illegals ~ or even legal residence for any purpose.
Perry and the Texas legislature are perfectly willing to violate federal immigration law where it serves to discourage illegal immigrants.
Pretty obvious how this is going to end ~ it will take armed force ~ probably first against Texas elements, and then Mexican elements.
Rome fell in 476.
Texas residents pay $50 per credit hour. It’s a nice rate but it’s not a scholarship.
The Roman Senate continued to sit throughout the period of the Fall of Rome, so we might well refer to this as the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the return of the Etruscan Roman Kingdom (with a probable German as King over Italy and FYR).
The Eastern Roman Empire didn't fall. Beginning in 535, though, everybody had some serious problems with a total economic collapse North of the Mediterranean, and some serious population drops in a variety of places.
$50 is for what and where and which schools and what's your URL.
You can argue there was still an Eastern Roman Empire. You can point out that a part of France (The Domain of Soissons) remained Roman for another decade. You can note that Eastern Romans actually managed to recapture Rome in 540.
But, really, in 476 it was over.
There used to be this theory that vast numbers of barbarians overran the place. Subsequent archaeological research revealed "IT" continued to putt along until 535 ~ that's the year even China turned to poop.
The $50 is the statutory in-state tuition rate. There is another designated tuition rate on top of it. An kid who entered illegally but grew up in Texas and graduated from a Texas high school would have to pay that too.
Where are you getting this from??
As long as there was a single government over the Italian peninsula, that was ROME.
They didn't turn into a Dark Ages wasteland until the Dark Ages started in what appears to have been the Spring of the year 535 AD.
Earlier writers confounded four events ~ the arrival of German usurpers, the move to Ravenna, the arrival of the Dark Ages, a minor sacking of Rome.
http://www.utexas.edu/tuition/costs.html ~ the nursing program there costs a new non resident student $1,114 per credit hour! A resident is charged $324 per credit hour.
That makes sense.
Unstated is that the out of state tuition rate charges far more than the university costs to operate the programs ~ which means that SOME OF THE IN STATE students are actually subsidized by OUT OF STATE students ~ to wit, someone from New York attending University of Texas would be paying tuition to subsidize an illegal alien!
Many supporters imagine the in-state rates pays all the universities expenses ~ which it doesn't. Taxpayers make up some of the difference. Federal taxpayers make up some of it. Other state programs suffer as a consequence of this subsidy so widows and orphans have food taken from their mouths so that an illegal alien gets a doctorate somewhere in Texas.
It's an elitist sophistry that this hurts no one ~ when, in fact, it places a heavy penalty on the poor, the destitute, those yearning to be free of oppressive taxation and the evils attendant to poverty.
Better the state charge everyone the top end tuition than to continue hurting the helpless!
It's pretty obvious to me that Perry and his running dog lackeys have no heart!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.