John / Billybob
The most common argument made by the open borders crowd is that all the illegals come here to do the jobs Americans won't do. Okay, let's grant this for the sake of argument (dubious though it might be).
If the premise is true that we have more no skill, low skill jobs than there are Americans to fill them, then it stands to reason that we no longer have a need for government programs to fight poverty, at least for people who are at least as qualified to work as someone from Mexico with little or no formal education who may not even be able to read and write in spanish let alone be conversant in English.
So an amnesty bill that I could support would be one that includes a provision to eliminate all Federal poverty programs that give even 1 dime to an able bodied worker. How could the transnationalists oppose this? By their own argument we have such a shortage of unskilled workers that we need to import them from Mexico.
Funny thing is, pass such a bill and the illegal immigration problem really would be solved.
Couldn’t find the video on YouTube, but I found it here.
http://www.flicklife.com/331860b1391257a106bb/The_Pec_Brothers_Perform.html
Found the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwPbT1xI5f8
Also, in the process of finding that link, I found a clip of Blue Man Group doing an INCREDIBLE version of The Who’s “Baba O’Reily”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrpFpnmJ-i4
You simply must use that statement in your next campaign.
Our legislators love to say how hard they work. Politicians are always “workin’ hard for the American people.” In the real word hard work with poor results still gets you fired. Too bad they don’t live in the real world.
Here are the same fellows on Letterman. Routine goes to the end. http://youtube.com/watch?v=brqSJq9aRIc
“And as for how to deal with the millions of illegals here now, we have a bird feeder rule hereabouts. When you put out feed, you get birds.”
Dear Congressman Billybob,
With all due respect to your legal homespun and edjewcated wisdom, I take issue with only one point of your latest.
To have the word immigration in any sentence, paragraph or paper associated with that travesty that the esteamed senators from the state of Massachusetts and Arizona, have concocted for themselves is to place far too much emphasis on something that the particular travesty really is not at all about, despite the deceiving title.
The esteamed Senators would like the world to believe that what they are doing is fixing immigration when immigration doesn’t need fixin, and the rest of us know it. If I place too much emphasis on my own definiton of Immigration, I’m sure you will let me know.
What the esteamed senator calls immigration is nothing more than a border invasion, and it is successful because no one, or nothing is at the border to stop the invasion. If those who were crossing where they pleased would stop at the various border entry points to have their reasons, visas, papers, checked, the vast majority would be turned away, and not allowed entry.
Even that entry wouldn’t or shouldn’t be called immigration unless the person intends to stay, for the reasons so many millions have immigrated in the past, and has complied with all of the various entry requirments of the Yewnited States Government. In other words they got here legally, and there purpose is indeed immigration as we the people understand it. NOT as our esteamed senators would like us to believe, that what has been taking place since borders began, the illegal crossing thereof, has anything to do with the word or act of immigration. A legal activity. If an illegal act occurs, it ain’t immigration.
When a legal immigrant talks about arrival in the new world, they talk about the boat ride, or plane ride to get here, both result in passing US Customs, with a legal visa in hand. They are coming for various reasons to stay and make a new life for themselves after complying with the legal requirments. Those who choose to bypass those requirments, are not nor will they ever be immigrants in the legal sense, but crooked invaders, that our esteamed senators would love to make legal with the stroke of a pen, and my cry in the wilderness, is, what does that make us if we let them have their way with us?
Finally all spelling or misspelling is my own, and more than likely it was on porpoise, and lastly I must add my senatorial tirade ongoing for at least 10 years, that the US senate is still considered by me to be the single most dangerous body of men and women on the face of the earth. It is only by the Grace of God, and the American people that we still have a government that could be called a Republic, despite the best efforts of those who use and abuse their Constitutional positions granted unfortunately by the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, another story entirely.
With apologies to those senators who consider themselves humble servants of the people and their home state, and produce bills that actually prove that point, and not my point of tirade. They are few in number.
You and I both know that I could continue for a good while longer, concerning many related issues such as how much the illegal invasion is costing our government states and it’s people, how Mexico’s crude oil import status vis-a-vis the US impacts our relationship, etc, etc, but let me say in closing, that your individual effort to keep the government in check are appreciated, perhaps more than you know.