Posted on 06/29/2007 9:43:34 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Those of us in the conservative movement have always been friendly to the business community. We believe in low taxes, a light touch on regulation, and we're stalwart champions of the free market.
When liberals start talking about limiting CEO pay, harassing Wal-Mart, beating up on oil companies, or generally trying to place new burdens on the businesses, it's always movement conservatives who rise to their defense, even though it's sometimes not in our best political interests.
Yes, we probably do fight a little harder because we view businessmen as political allies, but we genuinely, in our hearts and souls, believe in capitalism and an America where people can still get rich. So, philosophically, we're the best allies the business community in this country could ever have.
That's why it was so disappointing that none of that seemed to mean anything to the "Chamber of Commerce" crowd when it comes to the illegal immigration issue. Their attitude, right from the beginning to the bitter end of the bill in the Senate yesterday was, "We want to bring in as much cheap labor as humanly possible now, next year, and forever more to fatten our wallets and we want everyone else to pick up the tab for it. If it puts American workers out of a job, we don't care. If it drives their wages down, so much the better, because that means we make more money. If we have to leave the borders open and risk another 9/11, that's fine with us. If we have to get the bill through by demonizing as racists the very people who have staunchly defended us on issue after issue, it doesn't bother us a bit. Long story short, if anyone doesn't like what we want to do, tough, because we bought these senators with our campaign contributions, we own them, and it's our way or the highway." In other words, for a lot of these companies that knowingly hire illegals, this is all about raw, unbridled greed.
Now, I don't begrudge a company making a big profit or get all upset because some corporate CEO gets paid more money in the time it takes him to walk from his office to the bathroom and back than I make in a year. That's just what Churchill referred to as capitalism's, "unequal sharing of blessings," and I don't have any problem with it.
But, what I do have a problem with are businesses that want to put an enormous burden on the rest of the country just to inflate their bottom lines. These businesses that are knowingly hiring massive numbers of illegals are criminal enterprises, not much different from crack dealers in my book, and not only do I want to see them getting fined, I want to see the people running those companies doing hard time in a federal penitentiary.
You know why?
Because these illegal aliens are not coming to this country to see the sights. They are coming here because crooked businesses are willing to ignore the law and give them jobs. Then these illegals that they're drawing here drive up the cost of health care and car insurance by refusing to carry insurance themselves. These illegals are having anchor babies and using those children to get welfare, food stamps, and other government goodies that the rest of us pay for. Enormous numbers of American citizens have been raped, robbed, and murdered by illegal aliens who came here in the first place to work for these crooked corporations. Our taxes also pay for keeping illegals in jail, we pay for their kids' schooling, and we have to pay a lot of money to keep these illegals out of the country and away from these businessmen who want to hire them. So, these crooks make a mint by paying slave wages to illegals and the rest of us have to pay the price for it.
Free enterprise? Free enterprise is great. But, free enterprise doesn't mean a lot of businessmen get rich by willfully breaking the law, pass the costs on to the rest of us, and then pay off senators with campaign contributions to legalize their victimization of the rest of the country.
They are traitors in every sense of the word.
Any conservative that stay a member of the chamber of commerce is a piece of --it!
Does anyone get the feeling that Chambers of Commerce play a role similar to pimps?
Also, watch big business to get behind the Dems in ‘08 because the Dems will promise to shift the burden of retiree and employee health care to the tax payers.
These illegals have their health care and schooling taken care of the taxpayers too.
That is clearly a double standard.
Sure that's why you have law firms out giving lessons on how to avoid hiring Americans. Many American business wants slave labor and plenty of it. I want to see them in jail and face asset forfeiture their crimes are no difference than the druggie down on the corner and they cost society more.
Has anyone noticed the shrinking middle class lately? That class that so many aspire to does not need to go on a forced diet! Where will our entrepreneurs come from in future if there is no longer incentive to rise above their station?
Evil forces are working through the education system to make cookie cutter citizens out of our children; our government’s attempts to erase our borders to bring us to a third world status; and now through the workplace to replace good paying jobs for Americans with pittances for illegal invaders by invitation!
We have a huge job ahead of us, people, in cleaning up this deliberately caused mess. We need unity, prayer, determination, dedication, prayer, objectivity, and prayer, prayer, and prayer. Do not despair! We can do it!
That's what happens when the Umpires don't enforce the rules of the game.
“One of the worst thing about the government’s failure to crack down on the employers of illegals is that is forces other employers to use illegal labor to stay competitive.”
You make a very good point.
Big business has always hedged its bets and given heavily to the the Democrats. During the last Democrat Convention, resident NYT witch Maureen Dowd was whining publicly on Hardball that she was at the hotel where delegates were interacting with lobbyists and there were so many from big business that she was having flashbacks to the Republican Convention.
Sounds like you have a case of the Linda Chavez sour grapes. How much friendlier to the citizenship part can it get than this bogus Comp Immigration bill....it was purely evil in it’s intent!
This issue is best deferred, passing this Comp Immigration bill is giving into all manner of lawlessness, crooked businesses and crooked politicos as well as weak willed do gooders. We will see what will happen, but I see the beginnings of an awakening by the middle class and all citizen voters! 2008 will be interesting.
Support of 64 out of 100 senators shows no evidence of anything "grassroots" to me except that it will come back and it will be more liberal than uncle Ronnie's was.
Certainly, none of that excuses, in the slightest, an organization which shows no interest in the continuity of American society as we have known it. The utter lack of identification with the mainstream of Americans is as nauseating as it is a short sighted betrayal of the long-term interests of the very companies funding the Chamber.
We need to push on, on many fronts. Not the least of these is to take the wake up call to educated Americans, wherever we find those who will listen, including among those very managers, who hire the Chamber for whatever purpose they have in mind. The best strategy is to broaden the numbers of those who are willing to consider all aspects of the problem, over the next few months, and then with enhanced numbers, to support Americans who do not apologize for wanting to keep America as it was passed on to us, by the brave, good men, who came before us. We need a new breed of political spokesmen; a new breed, who understand what the original breed--the founding fathers--understood, when they gave us our unique institutions and cultural norms.
For a discussion of issues relevant to Immigration, Immigration & The American Future.
William Flax
I don’t get business’ view of the benefits of amnesty. If the illegals become legal, won’t that increase the cost of employing them as businesses will then need to pay minimum wage, provide benefits, etc. so the supply of cheap labor will dry up.
Can we also demand that Mel Martinez resign as head of RNC? I don’t feel comfortable having him in charge going into the 2008 elections because anti-illegal folks will be screwed by RNC is my guess.
We could call our state and nat'l RNC offices and demand an anti-amnesty leadership.
It'll be important. For example--a contender to Lindsey Grahmnesty's Senate seat would be facing the RNC's chosen incumbent. GW may not reward the loyalty of his supporters most of the time, but you can expect he'll try to protect his Amnesty Hack in Chief--Graham...if only to spite conservatives in SC.
Yes, I find that more than curious and disappointing.
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