"Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."
Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner
Yesterday, George W. Bush strode to a podium in Tucson, Arizona (I love Tucson!) and against a backdrop of law enforcement officers, announced his latest plan to crack down on illegal aliens. There was nothing in his speech we haven't heard before, and his new immigration policy is just as contradictory as the old one. Among the initiatives announced:
We should build more jail cells to hold illegal aliens. Good idea. The speeding up of deportations, a crackdown on fraudulent identity papers, and a hardening of the border with more surveillance. So far, so good. Then the nonsense started to flow. The president urged Congress to pass his guest-worker amnesty program and repeated the nonsense that the illegal aliens are here "to fill jobs that Americans will not do."
Same old, same old. It is impossible to stand there and say you're going to crack down on illegal immigration while at the same time say that you are going to reward people who broke our immigration laws. The president says it's not amnesty. Ok, now we've finally caught the president in a lie. OF COURSE it's amnesty! When you tell someone who has broken the law that you are not only going to ignore their illegal conduct, but you are actually going to reward them for it, then you have more than plain old garden variety amnesty, you have amnesty with perks!
As for the oft-repeated line that the illegal aliens fill jobs Americans won't, that's also a load. Companies may not be able to fill those jobs with Americans at the same low wages they pay Mexicans, but there are plenty of people in this country that would do the work at the right price. OK .. so the price of headless chickens, landscaping and construction might go up, but at least the people receiving those paychecks would be law-abiding residents of this country, most of whom would be citizens. There is something wrong with the idea of celebrating lower home prices when those lower prices are brought with disrespect for the laws of our country. It gets worse than that. We are threatening our very security by singing the praises of illegal aliens in our workforce. Just two weeks ago we were interviewing a Texas congressman who was telling us that U.S. intelligence agencies have knowledge that Al Qaeda terrorists have moved to Mexico, adopted Hispanic identities, learned the Spanish language, and then moved right into the United States across our porous borders.
George Bush failed to address the problem appropriately yesterday, but this isn't strictly a George Bush issue. There is absolutely no willingness on the part of either political party to crack down on illegal immigration. There are simply too many votes to be had in the Hispanic community. So as a result, our security as a nation is threatened and our cities and states are overrun with illegal aliens.
I'm sure representatives of Al-Qaeda are preparing to apply for their guest-worker permits as we speak.
lol. We are becoming cynics.
"Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."
Unfortunately Dane, you and the other Republicans who are counting on our votes will see too many have dropped out. We're not Republicans, we're Conservatives and we're tired of it. The game you play does not interest us, we play for real.
Squawk, Bush is the second coming, squawk!
What!!? Dane lied AGAIN!!!? I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
That's because it is and Dane knows it. Just today Dane's heroes Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid came out in strong support of the amnesty plan. Dane just curious, have you talked to Howard Dean yet, what does he think?
LOL! And I'm the one who is supposedly being rude. Oh well I must be making a point if you all stoop to personally attacking me in the keywords and don't have the guts to say it to my face. And also I see you are using the old tired "quisling' spiel.
Oh well when you can't win the arguement throw out names, but keep on posting, it just shows your bullheadedness and hubris towards those who probably agree with you 90% of the time and that you are masters in burning bridges.
Spiff....do you need some smelling salts yet? : )
Speaking of dropping out of the "debate" you never answered my question:
Tell me, why don't we let everyone in the world who wants to come to the USA in and let them work for whatever wages they are willing to work for?
We can give them free schooling for their children, free medical care, not expect them to learn english or assimilate, not expect them to pay taxes but be part of the underground economy and not expect them to leave when we have enough of them and everyone's wages have dropped to the poverty level. At what point is enough enough?
Oh are you willing to pay for this?
I am not for amnesty and Bush's proposal is not amnesty, but you already knew that.
BTW, to expound on attacking me through using a keyword, I never attack another poster on FR through the use of keywords, that's what "quislings" do.
We can give them free schooling for their children, free medical care, not expect them to learn english or assimilate, not expect them to pay taxes but be part of the underground economy and not expect them to leave when we have enough of them and everyone's wages have dropped to the poverty level. At what point is enough enough?
And I don't support any of the above, but you already knew that.
It is an amnesty but you knew that, your job appears to make everyone else believe it's not the obvious.
Btw, who attacked you by way of a keyword?
And I don't support any of the above, but you already knew that.
Uh, sorry, what do you support Dane? Please give me the deatails so there will be no mistake, Thank You.
rs
If you're serious, you're not going to like what you find. You will most likely join us fence builder types soon enough. So let me preemptively welcome you to the 89%'er Dark Side. Blackbird.
See no evil, hear no evil...
You might not like the truth...
Actually Chertoff, IMO, isn't your usual scumbag trial lawyer, he also worked as a US Attorney and I doubt he is one of those trial lawyers who is out to bankrupt business and raise insurance costs and mess up the American health system.
And look here it seems that Cherthoff has worked the majority of his career in a prosecutorial or judical service.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya! It obvious you ain't one of US, so feel free to pack it in! Blackbird.
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