Posted on 01/10/2014 7:04:24 AM PST by xzins
I’m confused myself, but they are a chamber… of commerce, so I assume that their plan to turn America into a one-party Democratic country is really well thought out and not at all like the time the insurance industry and medical associations decided to back ObamaCare in the hopes that short term gains would be worth destroying the Constitution.
Thomas Donohue, the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, declared 2014 the “year of immigration reform,” Wednesday, during his annual state of American business address.
“We’re determined to make 2014 the year that immigration reform is finally enacted,” Donohue said. “The chamber will pull out all the stops—through grassroots lobbying, communications, politics and partnerships with our friends in the union, and faith-based organizations, and law enforcement groups, and others to get this job done.”
And if that doesn’t work, they’ll slip them some briefcases full of Zimbabwean trillion dollar bills under the table. But why does the Chamber of Commerce want to legalize 12 million illegal aliens?
Immigration reform was one of several items on the chamber’s agenda for 2014. Other reforms he endorsed included expanding domestic energy production, delaying or repealing the employer mandate under Obamacare, and comprehensive tax reform to lower rates and simplify the code.
The Chamber of Commerce wants to add 12 million illegal aliens from Mexico to the voting rolls… and it wants to lower taxes.
One of these things is not compatible with the other. As the C of C would figure out if it took a closer look at California. It can have lower taxes or it can have illegal alien amnesty.
It can’t have both.
So the Chamber of Commerce has to pick what it cares about more; lower tax rates or illegal alien amnesty.
Donohue also warned that the entitlement crisis is the “most predictable crisis in American history.” By 2023 entitlement spending and interest on the debt will account for 76 percent of government outlays, he said, increasing federal spending to nearly $6 trillion per year.
Even more predictably, adding millions to the welfare class, along with their elderly relatives from Mexico, will drastically increase entitlements spending. And spending in general.
Imagine a new future where Obama and Elizabeth Warren and Bill de Blasio are the future instead of temporary aberrations. Good luck with your entitlements crisis under permanently left-wing rule.
This is why challenging C of C candidates in primaries is justified unless they disavow immigration reform (amnesty) because whether or not the seat is held by a pro-amnesty Republican or a Democrat, amnesty will mean permanent Democratic Party rule in under two decades.
“It’s time for our leaders to act like leaders, to tell the American people the truth,” Donohue said, “and to craft a fair, sensible plan to reform and save these vital programs.”
Donohue laid out a vision to “expand opportunity for all,” and argued immigration reform is vital to that aim.
“Throughout history, immigrants have brought innovation, ideas, investments, and dynamism to American enterprise,” he said. “And in terms of demographics, we need immigration.”
We have immigration. 1 million immigrants a year.
What Donohue means is that we need to have lots of cheap Mexican labor. And he pretends that those same cheap laborers will then bring “innovation, ideas and investments” instead of grabbing every benefit they can get the first chance that they get… and then vote Democrat to lock in those benefits.
Critics of the Senate’s immigration bill have argued that adding millions of immigrants and guest workers will harm the lagging economy and reduce American wages. The “Gang of Eight” bill would add an estimated 30 million additional immigrants to the United States over the next decade at a time when the number of Americans not in the labor force has reached record highs.
I’m sure it won’t be a problem. Not with unemployment insurance for life. Which Donohue absolutely opposes, but which his support for illegal alien amnesty will lead to.
“2013 we liked,” Donohue said. “We made a deal in the Senate, we did that with a cooperative basis with the AFL-CIO, and with lots of other people, then we started working in the House, where I believe we’ve received a very positive response—a different way of doing business—435 people, not just 100 of them.”
“I’ve been encouraged by a lot of the noise and soundings out of the House, and I’m not discouraged when every now and then I wake up in the morning to see a story about some reason it’s not going to work,” he said. “Four hundred and thirty five people have to go home and run for office, and I think we’re going to get this done.”
This may be the final battle for America. If they “get this done”, it’s all over but the shouting.
You’re on the wrong site.
Do you really want to treat SS the same as welfare?
I don’t see much difference myself to tell you the truth. One’s means tested, the other isn’t.
“You’re on the wrong site.”
No I am not. The country club establishment Republicans need to pay for what they are doing and the best way is to make them pay for it.
How bad can it get? The Chamber of Commerce has lost its mind. It sounds like it prefers a dictatorship to run America. What in the world is going on?
This says that everything you believed about the republican party from the 80's to about 2004 (the Bush amnesty push) is no longer true.
They either stopped being who we thought they were, or they never were who we thought they were.
Donahue is an arrogant, evil bastard.
I think it’s about time go give up on this country. It’s a cesspool of welfare addicts and fascist corporations that seek an ever expanding tyrannical government. Not to mention the 50+million babies aborted.
God’s judgement will be terrible.
It reminds me of a cartoon I saw once.
It had a five star general slamming his fist on his desk saying:
“The only way to save the planet is though all out full scale nuclear war!”
Where do you think the money in the social security trust fund went to. Welfare. The democrats want to own the entire united states and assign you a place to live, a job to perform, a minimum level of medical care, and a small pittance to buy necessities. Medicaid is not free, your estate and children have to pay for the amount of money you used out of it while you were alive. They are trying to change medicare to the same setup. The death tax will take everything you have built up to leave your children and the lawyers will take what’s left.
Hi Sgt. You need to read amnesty a little closer. I think a little sarcasm was being used.
What was said was, “Since they’re just using their corporate position to roll in taxpayer dollars and use taxpayer dollars for their own benefit”, then they might as well get more highly taxed so at least they’re spending some of their own money.
This guy is the head of the ‘Chamber of Commerce”???
I must have lost something in translation-—
Absolutely mind-boggling, isn’t it?
They truly want to kill the middle class.
When you are in a hole, it is best to stop digging.
If taxes are raised on the corporations that make up the Chamber, who do you think funds their payments of those taxes?
Your emphasis on the taxation side of the equation is curious. Why no emphasis on the spending side - which is where the vast bulk of our problem exists?
Illegal aliens are supposedly “doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.”
Well if we legalize these people and make them Americans, then who is going to do those jobs?
The fact of the matter is that most illegal aliens are doing jobs that Americans would love to do, but the illegal aliens are just willing to do them under the table, with no liability for taxes, workers comp insurance, payroll taxes... and to top it off in addition to getting paid under the table the children of these illegal aliens are getting food stamps and welfare benefits because their parents are allegedly not earning a living.
The only thing that amnesty will do is to guarantee that another 12 million of these scofflaws will “immigrate” here illegally in the next decade.
The idea of granting these people amnesty is national suicide.
Agree. Western civilization itself may not see the end of this century. The Left and Islam are ascendant, and the world’s beacon of freedom is too frightened to even identify them as the enemy.
That seems certain and especially if total control of borders, coasts, and visas is not first enacted as so many have pointed out.
And since total control will NOT be enacted, one has to wonder what the end game is.
I'm leaning more and more to a serfdom called "The United American Nations" (US, Canada, Mexico, all the way down to Panama eventually) as their objective.
Who pays the taxes? They do! That is why they fight taxes like hell. Do you think they are actually doing it just to help us middle class people? Why are they moving out of high tax states? Just because they don't want to pass their taxes onto us?
“Your emphasis on the taxation side of the equation is curious. Why no emphasis on the spending side - which is where the vast bulk of our problem exists? “
Of course spending is the problem. But it becomes more of a problem when the people who run the country don't have to pay high taxes. The more we lower them on wealthy individuals then the more they spend. Don't tell me you don't see a correlation. The more we have lowered taxes on the rich and on the corporations the more they become Democrats and the more feckless, duplicitous and treacherous the remaining Republican establishment country clubbers becomes. Again, the more government becomes a source of income and the less it becomes an oppressive tax burden the more we get stabbed in the back.
If there is or was any sort of doubt as to where this is coming from, there should not be now.
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