I am so tired of hearing McCain on almost every talk show for a week already. I do NOT like his message or legislation.
Victor Davis Hanson
Ridiculous. You have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Why don't we take over Mexico and make it better than we found it!:)
It's a date! I'll bring a case of Grey Poupon and FRench Champagne.
Somebody is gonna have to help me figure out how to get it out of the trunk of my new Lamborghini Ferrari Tomaso stretch Mini-SUV van tho... I couldn't make up my mind which one to buy so I bought them all and had them all put together by ChopShops'R'Us.. Their motto, "You shop, We chop." They don't hire illegals there for some reason tho, so I can't speak to the quality of the work they do, but Hey.. them's the breaks. ;-)
I'm having the Swedish Female Sharpshooters squad flown over too so I hope you have a hugh Hot Tub at your new place, I hope? ;-)
Misc ping, So Cal ping, et al
Bush, McCain, Spector and Graham have joined forces with the Senates liberal Democrats to form a coalition for passage of a liberal immigration policy. I don't see anything conservative about granting amnesty to millions of illegals, unless of course you're a Democrat. The Democrats will be the winners in all this. They will see huge gains in Hispanic voters. There is no upside to amnesty for the GOP. None. The GOP will come out the losers.
I knew right then and there that he did not get this issue.
Naturally, this country will have a lot of Hispanic immigration. I am okay with that as long as it is legal and they come here to become part of our culture, to adopt our language, to leave at home the flags and allegiances that belong to the old country.
Bush does not get that. He might have said ~in~ ~English~, "And to our newest Americans...welcome. You come as generations have before to contribute and become part of this great nation."
But, instead, he pandered to Hispanic culture rather than insisting on American culture, and he encouraged their dual loyalty. (dual at best)
On this issue, heck NO, I do not trust the president.
"You and I are being asked to allow our nation to be over-run, our language replaced, our neighbor's job and possibly your own given to a foreign national. We are being asked to pay their children's education. We are being asked to give them free health care. We are being asked to accept hospitals having to reduce services across the board, in order to recoup the expenditures for which hospitals are not reimbursed. Not only do you pay for illegal aliens health care, your own is being savaged in the process. You may not think so. That's okay. It is. All of this is asked, or more accurately demanded of you and I. We have very little choice.
We're not being asked, we've been told. Anyway, there are two good things that come out of this week's events. First is that everyone has been forced to confront the facts that you outline above. The second is that these folks do not show the slightest intent of transferring allegiance from their country of origin to this one. Quite the contrary, in fact. After this week, it's no longer possible to pretend otherwise.
Have to disagree with this. We aren't being asked. It's being demanded and we're being forced.
Great post.
The very fact that this even has to be discussed, debated and defended, speaks volumes about the decayed sate of our Republic.
Great points in there, but you know unless you embrace every illegal immigrant and take them water in the desert as they break into our country then you are nothing but a dirty dirty racist!
WELCOME TO THE CLUB!
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Right now I vote for candidates based on their stance on only two issues: gun control and immigration. They have to be "right" on both. Luckily for me, I live in a red state and in a congressional district that has a Congressman who is right on both. One senator is right on both; the other is so wobbly on almost all issues that I don't bother to vote for him.
Again, thanks for a good summary of the problems that face us. I never thought that our country would be facing this situation. It kind of snuck up on us, didn't it?
bookmark
Good rant. Thanks DoughtyOne.
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For me personally, the worst thing is the ER. I truly fear that one of my sons will die (may G-d forbid) because of shoddy care or too long a wait at an overrun ER. My friends in other parts of the country do not have ER waiting rooms that are filled with illegals awaiting free primary care. Imagine. They see a doctor in less than 6 hours.
The coup de grace is how hard my husband works to pay for our health insurance and costs, and knowing that he is also paying for these people's care too. We give with open hearts to charity. I want to help those in need. But I hate paying taxes to support lawbreakers, all while we have to count our pennies to try and live a middle class life in southern CA.
Ron, your best point, the one that isn't heard often enough, is that these people are not true refugees. They were not hungry in Mexico and their families did not live under threat of pain or death. Huge point. Bless you for making it, even as it makes me that much more angry at our President.
Only because the American media has not deemed this worthy. Your premise and supposition is sound. A visit to Texas may be in order. Or not, depending on whether there is a conviction regarding "reality". It may be ugly and harsh, or it may be whatever is due to others. Basic humanity and compassion are a factor. With the exception of the "machine-gun them all and let a higher authority sort them out" crowd. Yet even they have an open forum to foment violence and death. Believe that there is no corruption or servitude in Mexico. You will feel good.