Posted on 06/09/2025 11:28:01 AM PDT by John Semmens
Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt) made the strongest argument yet for why we need to increase immigration, saying "if we don't have avenues for people to come here legally we're not going to have anybody around to do the jobs Americans are not willing to do. One of the more distasteful things each of us has to do is wipe our asses. The same hand we eat with comes within a thin piece of toilet paper of contacting our own excrement. We are a rich enough country to not have to do this ourselves. In past times many of the elite members of society had slaves or servants to handle this task. We need a similar service for important individuals in our society like members of Congress, governors, and presidents. It will give the lower classes employment and reduce the filth that the well-off currently have to bother themselves with."
Vermont Republican Party Chairman Paul Dame called Rep. Balint's remarks "repugnant. Many of the immigrants in our state have had remarkable careers in high-tech fields, served as world-class physicians in Vermont hospitals, and are critical to our small business community, providing a wide array of goods and services that enrich our state."
In rebuttal, Balint pointed out "I wasn't talking about immigrants who are scientists, doctors or businessmen. I was talking about immigrants from what Trump called 'shit hole countries.' These are the kind of illiterate and unskilled folks we need to mow our lawns, make our beds, and wipe our butts. Americans won't take these jobs. The wages are too low--below what they can get from welfare benefits. So, unless we are going to ratchet down these freebies we aren't going to get them to do this or any other kind of work. Open borders are our only way out of this dilemma."
More destruction of the US
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