Posted on 06/25/2006 6:41:38 AM PDT by baseball_fan
WASHINGTON - Immigration issues are always ripe for demagoguery, particularly in an election year. But the solution to the very real problems along the U.S.-Mexican border can be found, ironically, in that other part of the world that demagogues love to ridicule: old Europe.
Two years ago, the European Union admitted 10 new members. Like Mexico, all of these nations were poor, some of them fairly backward and most recently ravaged by war and dictatorship.
The leaders of the European Union wisely created policies for fostering regional economic and political integration that make the North American Free Trade Agreement "look timid and halfhearted by comparison," according to Bernd Westphal, consul general of Germany.
Europe realized it had to prevent a "giant sucking sound" of businesses and jobs relocating from the 15 wealthier nations to the 10 poorer ones. It also had to foster prosperity and the spread of a middle class and prevent an influx of poor workers to the richer nations.
So for starters, it gave the new states billions in subsidies to help construct schools, roads, telecommunications and housing, thus making these nations more attractive for business investment. It was expensive, but the result has been a larger economic union in which a rising tide floats all boats.
In return, the 10 poorer nations had to agree to raise their standards on the environment, labor law, health and safety -- and more.
Worker migration is regulated. Immigrants will be carefully integrated so as to cause the least disruption to the developed economies, with the goal of having open borders down the road.
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Not only do we out number them, we need to deport all these guys.
Why are you all so willing to bend. Our forefathers are rolling in the graves. This nation was not built by a bunch of pansies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you've been reading some of the other threads on this ( the Jerome Corsi threads which have gotten the tin foil hat treatment ), what you are suggesting is NOT what is intended. What is intended is several extra-constitutional bodies that circumvent the pesky Bill of Rights and other inconvenient protections (things that have kept the US from turning into a 3rd world s***hole or a Socialist basket case ).
Even if the statehood process were followed, do you seriously believe the 'powers that be' what want to follow the historical process? I don't. I think they'll queer it to achieve the same goals as what is being discussed on the Corsi threads.
No way. I won't live as an economic slave.
I'm not giving up, I'm only stating the fact that we're outnumbered when it comes to the laws that would need to be imposed.
People need to wake up and start voting these silly bags of wind out of office...Otherwise it will be over.
The only thing that counts is what our leaders decide to do with our money and our guns. And they are deciding in their own best interest, not ours. We just fund what they want.
Would Americans then say, enough is enough.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —
This would not be a light or transient cause, we've been shown by our forefathers how to handle an out of control government that no longer follows the wishes of it's citizens.
Europeans can throw away their national sovereignty and cultures if they wish; The United States is too a priceless beacon in this very dark world to throw away or compromise.
The uniting done in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries here did a great job. I don't see anything else in the rest of the world that i want to unite with.
This coming Independence Day lets reaffirm our independence!
Until then, don't bother me.
It's never gonna happen. Mexico won't even allow foreign investment in their oil industry. You expect them to suddenly give up their entire country? Their conspiracy nutjobs (they'd make our nutjobs sound sane) would be convinced the NAU was a plot to steal their oil.
Repeat after me, NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!
Who said anything about bending?
Because then we have to pay to rebuild the whole craphole. Despite the rhetoric, the best thing that could happen to Mexico is to become the 51st state.
accepting an American Union, is only part of Nafta, and Nafta is bending in that direction.
by 2009, I understand we will no longer have dollars, but Ameros...Isn't that sweet?
From the article:
"Old Europe is looking spry, while the United States is looking clumsy and stuck to the flypaper of old ideas."
That line reveals just how little contact with reality the writer has.
PING to the Foreman!
That's funny! So it's true, pot keeps getting stronger, huh?
Pepperoni pizza sounds good right about now. Let's talk some more after you eat and take a nice nap.
Says who? Please provide evidence of this -- and no, graduate student theses don't count.
Oh my, the gubmint will, of course, have to triple in size. Yee-GADZ! This is wrong on so many levels.
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