Posted on 01/31/2014 10:25:32 AM PST by KGeorge
Edited on 01/31/2014 10:31:28 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Was that the deal about foreign aid? I know I was surprised to read that some people thought of him that way, knowing that he believes we should stay out of other countries’ business. I didn’t take it as anti-Semitic because my impression was that it applied to every country.
Like in our own families & demographic groups (by ethnicity/ race/ income/ whatever), people are different & you can’t always control- or expect to control, what they think. Looking close, I think it’s the humanitarian aspect that snares more “liberal” minded Jews. Obviously, with national socialism being leftist, there is a disconnect there- something that many people don’t think about or just know, off the bat. Maybe that’s too black & white, I don’t know.
The problem is a sense of entitlement that’s not just promoted, but *pushed* (on the labor force, the “downtrodden” TM) & exploited (condemning business owners) by the left. It’s such a set up.
My experience in business (very stale, almost 30 years) was similar to yours. I’m sure it’s increased a lot by now. In Texas, there was a sort of relativism, but it has gotten out of hand & become a problem. Migrant workers were not that much of a problem & pretty benign back then unless they went urban. (In the early 80s, we did a condo project in Laredo & it was probably just about all illegals. Beautiful work & you could’ve walked barefoot on the job sites, they were so clean. The further north you went- depending on the builder/ foreman, work degenerated & crime increased. A lot.)
If I had to pick a problem, aside from the article, it would be the “community organizer” types (0bama. Cesar Chavez, La Raza, LULAC- whoever) that gin up their constituents into believing that their jobs aren’t blessings that they’re lucky to have (which is true of all of us, rich or poor), but that there are demands to be met & things they’re entitled to. (which is the whole deal with unions) The whole mess has become completely reactive, with practicality out the window. They don’t stop with an issue (like a pesticide). They start throwing the kitchen sink “while they’re at it”. Amnesty/ open immigration is not practical. Reducing the number of illegals *has* been done before (too). It took, what? 30+ years to become an issue again?
Yes, it’s a damned mess & now, compounded & complicated, with more pressure applied. It would, if we could find someone willing to sort it it out, take a lot of hard, hard work & discipline on all sides to straighten it out.
Its not just Atlanta anymore. Illegal Mexicans have virtually taken over the entire construction industry all over rural Georgia. The contractor is usually a white feller but the labor is all Mexican. They are not just working in the fields or raking straw anymore.
And the reason the stranglehold died was that the strangulation victim finally died. The parasite killed off its host. But the real enemy, government, is no ghost. It's union rules, workplace regulations, taxes, and the sheer burden of paperwork that are chasing companies overseas.
“I am ecstatic that for the first time in my 14 years here you can post Pats stuff without being harpie pack.....”
I don’t always agree with all of Pat’s views, but I’ve come to highly respect Pat Buchanan’s views on trade, war, America and immigration.
I could easily call them traitors. But for the desire for a more subdued term, I’ll call those who put institutional profits over the security, economy and cohesiveness of our nation “globalists”.
Instead of working to unite us, they consistently pulled strings of their mouthpieces in the media and politics to divide us religiously, culturally and politically. They’ve spent years purposely attacking the backbone of the USA - white Christians as villains for this purpose.
They sold us out as a nation. They imported unskilled poverty and exported our middle class along with our tax base. Now they want to import more skilled foreign workers to undercut wages and the ability of Americans to even pay for an expensive USA college education.
As one who is old enough to have benefited and lived through America’s greatest years, I get truly PXXXXD when the reality hits that none of this (open borders, outsourcing, in-sourcing) needed to happen. It was due to the inaction or actions of multiple corrupt treasonous oath taking but self serving politicians of both Parties. We citizens paid them very well to be Americans and not globalists.
Speaking of unions. I used to think that way but now I see other problems besides unions and regulations, like Mexico style political corruption and corporatism that will teardown the USA.
It would be damn nice to be one of those big business $50 mil a year multi-national CEOs. Most were picked out of a crony litter as CEO managers, instead of actually building business with risk and capital. Most don’t know the meaning of entrepreneurship or risk reward (or patriotism)either. They get a big reward even when they fail while they screw the USA and their workers. The guy from Yahoo was just fired after 11 months and walked away with $70M. This is not an exception. They are stripping huge amounts of capital from our economy, while doing little to deserve it such as increasing USA production.
They were fired up about private sector unions while they get their own labor contracts that guarantee them millions for incompetence and make them essentially fireproof. They should be “at will” employees instead of having contracts that guarantee them millions from shareholders as a payoff.
The rank and file may have their unions like the UAW, while these CEOs have a Business Roundtable club doing their negotiating. Same principal except they run the show and have no real accountability and they get paid for failure.
As a shareholder I’m not convinced that any of them are worth what they get by a factor of at least 10, maybe 100. Most would sell out the USA in a heart beat, as their only concept of patriotism is that it is for the little people who put on a uniform.
While many regulations are a real problem for business an even bigger problem is about the lack of trust of government and failure to enforce legitimate regulations like borders and false advertising because of political corruption and cronyism. I’m becoming more cynical by the month.
Maryland: the perfect place for the GOP to capitulate to the Reconquistadores and the corporate scum.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Obama can do that himself. The House GOP leadership wants to get some of the credit for it?
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