Posted on 04/05/2006 12:31:37 AM PDT by goldstategop
understand that George Bush and his Republican colleagues think they can have it both ways with this so-called guest-worker program. Well, they can't. Gussy it up any which way you like, it's still amnesty. And like Reagan's amnesty program of '86, it will be another disaster for America.
Either the GOP is for more and more Mexicans coming across the border or they're not. But they should be warned that, if it's the former, they run the very real risk of eliminating themselves as a major political party. Even though I realize that taking a strong, principled stand on this issue could alienate certain major business interests and the Catholic hierarchy, I'm convinced that not doing so will constitute political suicide.
A few years ago, I suggested that if Republican challenger Bill Simon were to have any shot at unseating our inept governor, Gray Davis, he had to come out forcefully against the epidemic that was bleeding California's schools, health services and prisons, dry of much needed funds. Simon, a man with the looks and charisma of Mortimer Snerd, came surprisingly close, losing by a scant 4 percent. I have no doubt he would have won if he'd taken my advice. By not daring to risk offending the Hispanic voters, who naturally went overwhelmingly for the Democrat anyway, Simon merely gave the state's conservatives a good excuse to stay home on Election Day.
Any Republican who believes that turning a blind eye to the problem will generate boundless gratitude among Mexican voters is probably the same sort of pinhead who harbors the hope that blacks and Jews will soon be lining up to join the party. Being as stupid as Republicans are, perhaps it wouldn't be such a tragedy if they disappeared from the political landscape, going the way of the dodo and other inferior species.
We keep hearing how essential the guest-worker program is to our financial well-being. If the ruling class really wanted to do something substantive along those lines, there are a couple of things that come to mind. First off, they should deport the directors of every company that moves its factories overseas. Let these greedy pigs go live wherever in hell they've sent the jobs of working Americans. Or we could slap back-breaking tariffs on the goods they manufacture in those Third World cesspools, forcing them to try to turn a profit selling their widgets to the dollar-an-hour workers who produced them.
Finally, I, for one, am getting sick and tired of hearing how without a never-ending stream of uneducated illegals, the entire economy of the greatest industrialized nation in the history of the world would soon collapse like a fallen soufflé.
Frankly, I doubt if the world has heard so much claptrap along those lines since the plantation owners wept into their mint juleps while contemplating the end of slavery.
Yeah throw Farmer Joe's a$$ in the can for the crime of doing such evil things such as building buildings or growing food. I guess those "crimes" are on par with rape and murder to you and every roadblock should be put in their way to stop such evil practices(buidling buildings or growing food).
With all due respect- the simple law or laws you proffer, are already enacted in US Federal or US State statutes. US Law means absolutely nothing, without enforcement.
Such is the logic of the contention by advocates of lax immigration that the flow of illegal labor from south of the border is a boon to our economy.”
-Rich Lowry, National Review
I love it when Rich Lowry who probably all his adult life has been pontificating from behind a keyboard is all the sudden the expert when it comes to building buildings or growing food, and wishes to tell those who do, how to run their businesses.
Hey Dane, how many buildings have you built? How many crops have you grown and harvested? How many head of stock have you put to market?
None, but I ain't the one who automatically brands such people as "evil" for getting such good things done as grow food or build builings for the people they hire to get such good things done.
Right, that's a lie straight from hell, importing poverty is not good for any nation.
Huh, those people who went through Ellis Island weren't exactly Rockefellers.
How would you know? Since you have no practical experience, what is your opinion based on? Intuition? You should farm, ranch or build some structures. Please...then tell us about your practical experience- as a producer of real commodities.
Like I said before I don't brand such people as "evil", as those who do behind a keyboard and who probably don't have experience in such endeavors.
Dane,
John Snow has a solution, but although he is probably a nice man he comes across as a dullard. His idea floated was dramatic cuts if not outright elimination of Corporate Taxes and Dividends, to keep them here. His model, Ireland ergo the "Celtic Tiger".
With the political climate in this country such an Idea at this point cannot be entertained. That is a darn shame, it is a potential and legitimate solution to Corporate outflow and outsourcing.
I for one am very tired of the phrase,
"Jobs Americans won't do"
I am tired of that particular phrase because if some person want's to live on the welfare rolls of the US rather than work, I've got better ideas for them...
We've created our own mess, if illegals will cross several countries, forests, and deserts to get here to find a job...why won't our own inner city folk find a job, take that job, work that job.
It seems to me, that unverified assumption is the key to your view on this matter of life or death- for Our Nation. Apparently, you don't have much at stake...
A-freakin-men.
Guest-Worker is an oxymoron.
You don't invite a 'guest' into your home, and then ask them to 'work.'
What kind of buffoon does Bush think we are?
You are wasting your time.
Dane has the attitude towards the law of a career criminal, the business model of a slave merchant, and the patriotism of Aldrich Ames.
And you sammy have the same insipid rhetoric of hillary.
Do you really believe that the illegals are going to go back to their home country and wait in line to come here legally? LOL! Fat chance. Dream on.
Well perhaps, Sam- then again, most fence sitters just need a reality check.
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