Check out the billboard below with California scratched out & replaced with Mexico
Posted on 03/28/2006 5:20:43 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 28, 2006
In all its cacophony and moments of absurdity, this morning's Today show segment on immigration was a supremely edifying example of the confusion, high emotion and complexity of the immigration debate. Matters reached their Alice-in-Wonderland apotheosis when Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California was shown in a Senate committee arguing that illegal immigrants are good . . . 'citizens.' Said Feinstein:
"They pay taxes, their children are Americans, they go to schools, they're good citizens and they're needed."
This was in line with the fait accompli argument advanced by La Raza representative Janet Murguia. She referred to what she estimated as the 11-12 million illegal aliens in the country as "people are working in backbreaking work that nobody else wants to do in this country. We need to . . . understand that they are already part of this country."
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Free trade? I sure hope you put in your book that most Federal revenues came from tariffs for our first 150 years. Not from personal or business (corporate) taxes. If I'm wrong please clarify. I care but know your students don't give a s**t.
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli ...
I doubt that Left-Wing handlers taught Mexicans to be anti-republican. If someone listens to the news, it's pretty simple to determine who is for you and who is against you.
To the liberal democrats any defiant illegal act equates to being a "good citizen".
In fact they support mexican flag wavers BECAUSE the socialists have the same philosophy as they do.
Actually, for the first 80 years of the Republic, the vast, vast majority of government revenues came from land sales, not tariffs. Tariffs only made up the majority of revenues after the Civil War, and were such a huge headache and so hard to enforce that they gave us . . . ta da, the Federal Income Tax. Further, what research we have on the "protective" value of tariffs, esp. in the pre 1860 period, is that they had no effect at best and actually retarded our infant industries at worst. The textile industry, which was protected by Hamilton, in fact made products that were completely different than the Brits and never even used, or needed the protection. A debate still remains about iron, but by the 1850s, even that industry no longer needed tariffs, and our greatest steel growth occurred without tariffs.
Sign held by one of the illegals in your pictures.
Let's talk about real history.
1. At most, Mexico controlled portions of this area for 27 years, from 1821 to 1848.
2. When they did have legal title, their actual control was always spotty and generally absent. It was a theoretical control.
3. They lost a big chunk of it to Texan revolutionists in 1836. If the Mexican Revolution which gave Mexico control of this area transferred title legitimately, then so did the Texas Revolution.
4. The United States has been in control of this area for 159 years, as compared to a maximum of 27 years for Mexico.
5. Mexican title to what is now the southwestern US was acquired by revolution from the King of Spain, who had acquired it by use of violence against the native inhabitants. Why does the Spanish King's conquering this area result in a more legitimate title than its conquest by the US?
Can't read English?!?
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Thanks Prof. I have no clever rejoinder and will digest and look into you words. Thanks again!
Some come just to have their babies here; some, to get a welfare free ride; some, to get free health care.
I agree with you.. You better have a good flamesuit!!!
"It is not Xenophobia. It is Xenonausea."
I like that. Well said. I agree 100%.
There are those that would have us do away with nationalism, from both the left and right. I'm a nationalist and proud of it.
Can you tell me what demographic in California is truly Republican? I know nothing about CA.
If these are campus Repubs they are probably inevitably influenced by the 'anti-racism' atmosphere all around them and may not be out in the neighborhoods where the damage by illegals is being done, and so can countenance these ideas.
Have you ever read any of Eric Sloan's books? I loved them, they are great for children.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Eric%20Sloane&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank/103-5778999-8675058
1.) Build 'The Wall'
2.) Prison time for those who hire illegals
3.) Deportation of ALL illegal criminals
Get those started and we'll discuss guest-workers!
I usually tivo Lou Dobbs every day at 6PM on the east coast. He has been all over the illegal alien issue for a long time. He is one of the few in the media that has the guts to even utter a word about this topic. He is a hero.
LOL
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