Posted on 05/17/2015 8:06:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bump.
Mexico did not want to settle Texas. They regarded Texas as largely a wasteland, and encouraged Anglos to settle there as a buffer between Mexico and the Comanche and Apache, whom they feared. It was only after Anglos made a successful colony that they decided they were interested in Texas.
libertarians very much split on at least 3 issues:
immigration, abortion, the war in Iraq.
libertarians are very much for religious freedom, for a baker, pharmacist or any person being able to practice his religion.
On many issues the label is not the substance. libertarians are for free trade. The original NAFTA proposed by Reagan was free trade. But then lobbyists, environmentalists, unions, and dozens of other special interests turned NAFTA into a Christmas tree. So those supporting or opposing FREE TRADE are stuck with a monster.
Likewise on immigration. Historically one did not need the permission of the government to immigrate to the US. That was libertarian. Historically the law forbade the immigration of prostitutes, indigent aka welfare recipients, and other undesireables.
Welfare to immigrants is now the big problem. 90% of illegals are desireables. But 10% of immigrants (legal and illegal) are undesireables. The problems of that 10% make all immigrants look bad. But the libertarian position isn’t even on the table yet. Hopefully Huckabee, Rubio, Paul and others will coalesce around a libertarian immigration plan.
NO WELFARE TO IMMIGRANTS, legal or illegal.
Jeff Sessions / Last American Standing bump for later...
Nick Gillespie. Jeff Sessions.
Not much of a choice to make.
Thanks Cringing Negativism Network. It is an interesting article
Jeff Sessions files amendments and ask important questions.
“With Congress set to vote to begin debate on fast-track authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the White House still refuses to answer even the most basic questions about it. These are the questions Senator Sessions says the White House will not answer:
Will it increase or reduce the trade deficit, and by how much?
Will it increase or reduce employment and wages, and by how much?
Will you make the living agreement section public and explain fully its implications?
Will China be added to the TPP?
Will you pledge not to issue any executive actions, or enter into any future agreements, impacting the flow of foreign workers into the United States?
Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership want Congress to fast-track it before the American people know whats in it. They want us to trust that enforcement will occur, even though it has not in the past. They want us to trust that the President wont utilize this broad new avenue to expand foreign worker programs, even though his record demonstrates that he will. They want us to trust that this time is different.”
http://www.conservativehq.com/article/20291-sen-jeff-sessions-files-amendments-issues-%E2%80%98critical-alert%E2%80%99-tpp-effects-us-sovereignty
Jeff Sessions for President
Looks very Stephanopoulosish.
Another libertarian too stupid to understand that immigrants, legal and illegal, tend to be poor, on government welfare, and most have no ties to our founding principles and traditions. They are natural socialists. And so, too many libertarians are libertarians for socialism.
They also seem to believe that "free trade" is THE most sacrosanct issue and litmus test for candidates, willing to tolerate anyone and everyone as long as they oppose tariffs of any kind, even when those tariffs are retaliation in kind for currency manipulation on the part of our trade "partners."
Wrong again Nicky. Cruz wants to expand immigration too. I doubt Cruz and Bush are alone on that though...
Like this:
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Even Milton Friedman recognized that you can either have a welfare state or open borders while maintaining a civil society, but you can't have both. The Libertarian ideal is no welfare state and open borders, which, while bad enough, wouldn't be the disaster that we have today. However, Libertarians know that they won't eliminate the welfare state any time soon because no Democrats and few Republicans want to do this. So what do they do? They campaign on the open borders issue instead, knowing that on THAT count they'll have full Democrat and majority Republican cooperation, completely forgetting their own hero Friedman's advice on the subject.
Putting the cart before the horse is always stupid, in this case it's suicidal.
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