Eight-and-a-half minutes?
zzzzzzzzzz....
Too bad a 20 second clip isn’t out there.
He certainly seems to have made GWB into a believer of his nonsense.
“Karl Rove: U.S. Cannot Secure Border”
I think he mean’t “WILL NOT.”
Bump for later.
The US, can, in fact, accomplish just about anything the people decide is important enough to undertake.
With the logic being used, California should be an arid wasteland rather than the agricultural giant it is, etc.
One problem in this issue is that there are no single, overnight and comprehensive solutions that cost nothing.
No disrespect to Mr. Rove, and no, I did not spend 9 minutes listening. WOuld love a transcript though.
God Bless
Molon Labe
Nonsense. Of course it can be secured.
We just lack the willpower and sufficient public outrage to do so.
How convenient for their corporate globalist plans.
They believe in Market forces until wages go up- then they pervert the Market with a food a cheap labor.
It's a hypocritical philosophy.
Treat the southern USA border the same way as Mexico takes care of theirs and there will be far less illegals coming.
On the other hand, walls, fences and people with guns enforcing borders will go a long way to stopping illegal crossing.
Like any other crime, of course you will never stop it all.
You can reduce it greatly though.
“Karl Rove: U.S. Cannot Secure Border”
The replies crowd the mind.
1. We went to the moon, we can’t secure our border?
2. If we cannot secure OUR border, how in Gods’ name will we EVER secure Iraq?
3. A nation that cannot secure it’s borders does not deserve them.
No system is 100%, but the current system is a “non-system” of security meaning that we are relying on little more than the honor of the individual to obey the laws.
A border fence, with monitors and enforcement will reduce the in bound flow from a flood to a stream.
Add to that, laws that make it difficult or painful for illegal aliens to be in the US and you significantly reduce the motivation to come here in the first place. The stream becomes a trickle. Further, those that are already here start to head back home as per the example set by Arizona.
Crux of the problem isn’t “matching willing workers with willing employers”
Example: In the late 70’s myself and lots of other college guys worked summer construction labor at abut $6/hr ($8/hr when I lucked out on a union contract). But there were plenty of family men and others in our crews.
By any measure you use (CPI, Average Wage Rate, inflation, etc), that $6 to $8 an hour would in 2006 dollars be $22 to $28 per hour.
But we know anecdotally that illegals are paid $10 to $16 per hour cash, no taxes.
Employers are getting a 40 to 60 percent discount on general unskilled labor compared to the 70’s.
And that’s where the “insatiable demand” for illegals comes from.
Rove makes sense. Good video.
Let’s all keep in mind what the creator of this thread is - a DU’er.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014926/posts?page=52#52
“Yes, you are right it is not clear. Therefore, we should label it junk science, castigate McCain and get a real conservative to represent us. How about Limbaugh. While McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton, Rush was suffering from a pilonidal cyst that prevented him from being draftedat least that is what Wikipedia once said.
We need more conservatives with pilonidal cysts, football injuries and other accouterments of manliness.”
“A good deal of what is posted on FR is based on misreading of the facts or outright xenophobia.”
Baloney.
You are attempting to impute the racist canard upon Americans who merely expect the government to do its job and enforce the laws. I won’t even dignify that smear with a response.
I didn’t even listen to the recording. If Carl Rove, and George Bush and their pinhead buddies infesting Congress can’t enforce the laws of America, they should resign.
No nation which can’t guarentee the security of its borders will long survive as an independent nation. That idiot Rove and the others should pick up a history book and read it.
LOL! Karl Rove? A guy who has made a lifelong career as a political barker and nothing else is going to dictate what we can or can’t do to secure our borders? LOL! He needs to get off his fat ass, quit attending all of those Chamber of Commerce all you can eat buffet luncheons, mow his own yard for once in his pasty white boy life and break a fat man’s sweat for starters. The exercise would do him good, provided he doesn’t drop dead from a coronary.
Bill1952: Outright lie.
Anyone who postulates any such absolute as “cannot” about anything that is, in fact, physically possible, does not deserve our time to read further.
And so, he shall not have it.
Maybe if one of Karl Rove’s kids was run over and killed by a drunk illegal Mexican he might change is tune...