This guy? By the way Mr. Banker, can you give us some hard numbers on foreign equity ownership in America's major stock exchanges today? How about trends?
Posted on 05/22/2007 3:41:30 PM PDT by dennisw
“How can Washington, after the Farmers Branch election where 2/3 voted in favor of measures to curb illegal immigration, still feign ignorance?”
Isolation. With an 11-months-a-year Congress, they spend all their time in D.C. The whole time they’re there, they get their news from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the four TV networks. And the only people they talk to are their staffers, other congress-critters, bureaucrats, and lobbyists.
Back before air conditioning, Congress used to take August (and most of July) off. Everybody went back to their districts, and had to live with (and answer to) their constituents for a month or so. Now they only get home for fund-raising, which by its nature limits their contacts to people who already agree with them.
And there’s another factor. Today nearly all Senators and many House members can be described as “very wealthy.” The high percentage of rich people (some very rich) is a significant change from 50 years ago. When “very wealthy” people return home, it’s to the country clubs and gated communities. Even in the red states, the circles Congresspeople move in tend to be internationalist and fuzzy-liberal. And the only “average citizens” they’re likely to encounter are the illegal aliens who do the lawn mowing.
So yes, I can understand the ignorance. Of course they’re ignorant. They spend their whole life in a bubble, and they just don’t f*ckin’ know it.
The elite rich are different from you and me. They don't make their own beds. They don't wipe the noses (or other body parts) of their kids. They don't cook for their families (remember how Bar Bush used to boast that she never cooked?) and certainly don't mow their own lawns.
There's a reason why Bush speaks better Spanish than English. His NANNY taught him.
And they can't imagine life ever being different--but they do feel a little guilty about paying Manuela nickles and dimes to scrub their toilets. So, how do they stop feeling guilty?
Well, they decide to hand over American sovereignty to their servants!
That way, they feel noble and charitable. That's why they're always calling us bigots--because they just feel so warm and runny about their slaves. We ought to be kind and gracious to THEIR slaves, too, and stop griping that we have to pay for their social services. Shades of Scarlett O'Hara!!
They get to be noblessed, while we get to be obliged.
“They get to be noblessed, while we get to be obliged”
LOL!!
Well done.
Amendment XVII (the Seventeenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution
....was passed by the Senate on June 12, 1911 and by the House on May 13, 1912. It was ratified on April 8, 1913 and was first put into effect for the election of 1914. It amends Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution to provide for the direct election of Senators by the people of a state rather than their election or appointment by a state legislature, thus effectively eliminating state representation in Congress. It was passed and ratified during the Progressive Era.
Tell ya what boys..get the state legislatures to work on repealing this sucker ....and put the Senate back under the thumb of the state legislature....those boys in DC WILL perk up their ears..in the right direction.
Repeal the XVII Amendment.
Professor Borjas:
http://www.borjas.typepad.com/
I was watching Brit Hume's show yesterday (Monday). Fred Barnes really looked shaken when he was talking about the immigration bill. After praising the bill on Friday, he must have gotten B*tch Slapped by reality over the weekend.
While still defending the bill, Fred was acting like a drowning man. I loved it!
Good article!
You may know of Harvard professor George Borjas. He’s been critiquing immigration and its economics for years. He’s so alarmed he just started his blog. I’ll bet a student got it going for him. I like the way he calls it a shamnesty. Not very Cambridge of him
Thank you. Very well said.
Now you're talking!!!
Their problem?
They’re sorry-assed lawyers.
I hadn’t heard of him until now. He writes well. He must be one of the “Lonely Guys of Harvard Yard” with his POV : )
Whenever I think of Harvard Square, I think of a banana republic..........and that was 30+ years ago!
Brought to you by Wall Street, increasingly owned by foreign interests anyway.
I particularly despise that little monkey of capitalistpig.com on saturday mornings. He jest LOVES illegal immigrants.....
Hint: he looks like Alfred E Neuman : )
Tom Coburn gets it!
This guy? By the way Mr. Banker, can you give us some hard numbers on foreign equity ownership in America's major stock exchanges today? How about trends?
I’ve noticed that too!
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