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Begging Questions
Taki's Magazine ^ | March 5, 2015 | John Derbyshire

Posted on 03/11/2015 10:07:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We live, as I have noted before, in a beggars’ democracy:

This refers to the more relaxed sort of despotism in which the lower orders—the beggars—are permitted some modest freedoms of expression, so long as they do not challenge the basic assumptions of the state ideology too boldly.

There is no chance that any of us beggars out on the dissident right will have the chance to publicly quiz the 2016 presidential hopefuls.

We can dream, though. If I could ask the hopefuls 20 questions each, here is what I would ask them, by policy categories. I have restricted my list to questions an actual candidate might in fact answer.

There is no attempt here to be comprehensive. I’m asking about issues that interest me. If trade, fiscal policy, or global warming is your thing, make your own list. The chance for your list to be presented to any candidate is no worse than for mine. Welcome to the beggars’ democracy!

Illegal immigration. Of all the problems currently being aired in the political sphere, this seems the easiest one to solve.

•Universal compulsory E-Verify, with steep penalties against non-complying employers. This shuts visa overstayers out of the labor force as well as illegal entrants.
•An Israeli- or Saudi-style fence along the southern border.
•A ban on remittances by illegals.
•An act of Congress ending birthright citizenship.

Would you have a problem supporting any of those measures? If so, why?[continued]

(Excerpt) Read more at takimag.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: amnesty; derbyshire; immigration
Two page article.

Comments?

1 posted on 03/11/2015 10:07:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like the cynical dystopian introduction, it ‘spoons’ with me.

The rest I’m still digesting.


2 posted on 03/11/2015 10:33:47 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (White privilege? No. White Liberal Privilege? Yes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump


3 posted on 03/11/2015 10:35:07 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Universal compulsory E-Verify,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

E-verify for all political positions, especially for the presidency.


4 posted on 03/11/2015 10:36:24 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: wintertime

Typically, that would make me chuckle but with this knot head in D.C. I just can’t.


5 posted on 03/11/2015 10:42:22 PM PDT by azishot (God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Comments?

Just one.

The article misses the entire problem.

We're in this mess because we have no voice.

The GOPe, our voice, are Dumbocraps. Boner and turtle control the non-"opposition".

And, don't blame the media! The media are businesses, go where the money is, and where the journo-lists take them.

Why would the media embrace any conservative ideas when even the GOPe doesn't?

The biggest liars on the planet are GOPe who betray us at every opportunity. They are the nexis of evil.


6 posted on 03/11/2015 10:42:33 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: 867V309

If 10,000 or better yet, 100,000 or a million showed up at the capitol and executive mansion, they’d start listening in a hurry.


7 posted on 03/11/2015 10:45:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: wintertime

I’ve been tossing about about E-verify. Wondering how long it would be before the eponymous ‘they’ start using it to track and monitor or locate or profile otherwise legal U.S citizens.

I like the fence option. Deny them entry. The ones that are here already and denied jobs ... thats where certain problems begin, generally in the direction of crime statistics — but I’ve no proof.


8 posted on 03/11/2015 10:47:02 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (White privilege? No. White Liberal Privilege? Yes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If 10,000 or better yet, 100,000 or a million showed up at the capitol and executive mansion, they’d start listening in a hurry.

I can't afford it, but I'd find a way.




9 posted on 03/11/2015 10:54:15 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

I would spend a whole debate going through each of Obama’s executive orders and making each candidate that makes it to the debate explain exactly what they would do about each one, specifically.

All these executive orders that he makes, that I read in comments here, and on talk radio, that Obama should be impeached for or Boehner should shutdown the government to protest can easily be erased by a GOP POTUS with little or no debate.

On Obama amnesty, tell us exactly what you would do.

Cop outs like “I would follow the law” are not good enough and not even serious.

Make them tell us what exactly would they do.


10 posted on 03/11/2015 10:58:11 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 867V309
Well said and exactly why the most prominent question should be:

Do you support the Article V movement and follow-up questions inquiring about specific amendments.


11 posted on 03/11/2015 11:36:48 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; ...
RE:" There is no chance that any of us beggars out on the dissident right will have the chance to publicly quiz the 2016 presidential hopefuls".

Here's one they need to be able to handle,
POTUS debates against Dems are nothing like interviews on the Mark Levin show. They are brutal

Enesto was brought here at 4 years old from Mexico. He is now 20 in college after graduating high school with all As. He is a biology major planning on going to medical school.
This is the only home he knows, he has never been back to Mexico and knows no-one there and barely remembers it. His fiance is American and goes to the same college that he does. English is the only language that he is fluent on.
Would you issue an executive order that arrests hm as a criminal and deports him ?”

This is what is waiting for them.

Ben Carson just illustrated the unprepared for question breakdown early in this cycle. He would have helped us better if he said nothing on that subject.

12 posted on 03/11/2015 11:43:41 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

Easy answer: there are medical schools in Mexico and, based on my meager knowledge of that nation’s public health, I’m sure they’d welcome such a stellar student. Since we’ll also be deporting his illegal parents, and likely grandparents, they can help him work through his language problem when they all get back. The fiance can still marry a doctor, he just won’t have the same financial future.


13 posted on 03/12/2015 2:16:26 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: sickoflibs
The best solution?


14 posted on 03/12/2015 4:34:33 AM PDT by Liz
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To: 867V309

“And, don’t blame the media! The media are businesses, go where the money is, and where the journo-lists take them. “

Actually I blame the media before I blame the politicians. We know the politicians lie. We know they are interested in no one but themselves and their donors.

However, it is the media that has been given the job of providing oversight for the American People to keep politicians honest. With no fear that the media will do anything, a politician can do whatever he pleases.

If the media did their job, Obama would be waking up today deciding which Chicago businessman he could extort.


15 posted on 03/12/2015 5:45:30 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

+1!

Join the Sunday Talk Show thread. We discuss this issue all the time and point out media biases all day long.


16 posted on 03/12/2015 6:17:58 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Usagi_yo
Were you aware that Obama fails E-verify?

My post was an inside joke for those who have followed Obama’s eligibility and his blatantly forged birth certificates.

17 posted on 03/12/2015 6:50:58 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thought the Tparty did this in 2010ish and the press ignored it so it never made any difference.


18 posted on 03/12/2015 7:19:00 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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