[Redleg Duke]

Okay, folks, just keep on wallowing in self-pity!

[TigersEye]

Rush? Is that you? No self pity here whatsoever. I left construction in '89 due to back problems. In '94 I merely needed a decent wage to help pay for the schooling I was taking to transition out. I could have qualified for thousands in disability, unemployment and job retraining from the gov. but I have never taken one red penny.

It is you who wallow and it is ignorance you wallow in. Bush's Amnesty will accelerate the welfare state/entitlement state condition of this country to the point where we are in worse shape than Mexico has ever been.

You have the right to believe that's impossible. You have the right to think resistance to that is self pity. Those are your God given entitlements. But your belief in a fantasy won't change the immutable law of cause and effect.

Inviting the world's poor to come share in our wealth while simultaneously spending the hoped for excess of several future generations will lead to one inevitable outcome. The nations of the world eagerly await the day when we owe each of them more than we can pay in a lifetime. I'm sure they'll be compassionate creditors.

[TigersEye]

The first paragraph in my response to you may be a little confusing. I thought I was on a different thread. (Coffee first then post ... coffee first then post ...) FWIW this is the post I thought you were responding to. However; my points still apply.

[Dead Corpse]

If this is an example of the type of judge Bush wants to appoint to the Bench, we can do WITHOUT him as our President.

Tancredo should get the GOP nod. Him I could vote for.