Oh, we can; we just don't have the balls to do what it takes.
"Diseases desperate grown/By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all." 
Posted on 03/17/2006 2:45:24 PM PST by Crackingham
In the succeding generations.
succeeding
If you hadn't said it first, I would have written the exact same thing.
Great analogy, however, the invaders didn't cut the ticket line, they snuck in the exit, leaving the ticketholders no seat.
Oh, we can; we just don't have the balls to do what it takes.
"Diseases desperate grown/By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all."
I suspect, the hangman's noose.
Edmund Burke made a speech in the British Parliament during the American revolution. I'll post the whole passage and highlight the pertinent part of it.
"Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful; and most provinces it takes the lead......But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering of that science. I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in that branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonies have fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear they have sold nearly as many copies of Blackstone' Commentaries as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. (Gage discouraged measures of oppression of the colonies, "towards a country where every man studies law".).
"This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterious, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principal in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principal. They augur misgovernment from a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
I have wondered if this is a much unspoken aim of the professional politicians for the last two decades, to pack the electorate with Burke's non-augerers.
Good points.First,secure the borders.Then immigration reform.Have you read,"Immigration Out Of Control"/John Vinson?
I'll look for it; thanks.
ESL Freshman Student Remedial Writing project?
If you, sir, had lived in So Calif from 1964 to 1993 like I did, you would have seen a completely different picture.
I know it has gotten worse since then.
You cannot call those of who lived it 24/7/365 wrong or uninformed. You, sir, are looking at the whole problem with a large pair of rose-colored glasses. You, sir, need to get these illegal INTRUDERS back across the Mexican border.
You definately are not part of the solution, so you must be a large part of the problem.
This article makes a good point. By focusing on the illegality aspect we give the pols an easy out - they just figure out a way to make them legal. The problem is not the legality or illegality of immigration. The problem is the volume, quality and lack of diversity of the immigrant population.
National Review for too long has been a hive for that type.
I still live in So Cal and yes, it has gotten worse.
This guy is an idiot.
If I, a taxpaying citizen who tries to follow all the rules, have to sit here and watch illegal aliens cutting in line and receiving benefits I'm not entitled to, with no consequences, but instead being rewarded for their crimes, it makes m wonder why I should be a loyal citizen, why should I pay my taxes, do the right things? I wonder why our politicians don't see this situation as a recipe for anarchy? It is the natural progression, isn't it?
Well,
"..20 plus million...(maybe 30 million..." for starters.
There's problems in both legal and illegal immigration policies. We should have no illegal immigration, and we should have a 1/3 of the legal immigration we have now. Also we don't put good enough standards on assimilation, nor do we have legislation to prevent social burdens.
America is just too inclined to import poverty rather than self-sufficient individuals. When we first asked others to 'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,' we we're speaking of individuals that wanted to be free and live with that responsibility.
Ultimately it comes down to not expanding the social programs just so someone can come here and exploit money produced by others. If you eliminated that, then I could easily loosen my views on numbers, pending they weren't criminals and they would learn the language and culture which made this country great.
What we get in return for massive illegal immigration:
Closing hospitals
Increased health care costs.
Overcrowded prisons
Diseases we had all but eradicated
An underground economy
Increased crime
Identity Theft
Higher taxes
More police and schools
Increasing rate of unemployment of Americans
Lower standard of living for many Americans
Draining off of our social benefits
Gangs
Increased terrorism risks
Devaluation of our citizenship
Erosion of our national identity.
Lower tax revenues, since much of their work is off the books.
Smuggling
Increased drug flow
Human slavery and trafficking
Once nice neighborhoods now turned into barrios
To name just a few. Let me know if you can think of any more to add to the list.
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