Posted on 10/15/2011 6:06:22 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 15, 2011
It’s now a “9999” plan: 9 percent personal income tax, 9 percent national sales tax, 9 percent business tax, and a 9 amp jolt if you try to illegally cross into the US.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
The remarks, which came at two campaign rallies in Tennessee as part of a barnstorming bus tour across the state, drew loud cheers from crowds of several hundred people at each rally. At the second stop, in Harriman, Tenn., Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops “with real guns and real bullets” on the border to stop illegal immigration.
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It is not the first time that Mr. Cain has floated the idea of an electrified fence. He has told the story many times of a caller to his former radio show who chastised him for talking about building a border fence, saying that such an idea was impractical. Mr. Cain often says he told the caller that he had recently returned from China, and if the Chinese could build the Great Wall then America could build a border fence.
Before we assume that Herman Cain’s suggestion will cause Democrats or even select Republicans to throw even more scorn in his direction, I’d suggest this: Cain could win over many of them simply by saying that in his border plan, the fence would be electrified with power provided by solar panels the government purchased from stimulus-backed green energy companies.
” Once these kids (who were sneaked in as youngsters, not born in the USA) have their sheepskins, then folks are going to start crying how it’s so heartless not to let them get citizenship in the USA ..”
Don’t they have to already be pursuing US citizenship in order to be allowed to pay in state tuition ?
The reality is that we’ve got a whole slew of illegals here now.
This problem should have been taken seriously years ago and it wasn’t.
One thing I would be stern about is deporting any illegal committing a crime, even a small one.
You don’t need to encourage people to come here, they are desperate to do so.
This little effort that is so despised doesn’t encourage people to come here.
You need to figure out a way to keep them out from now on.
Then we can deal with those already here, but you don’t know how and neither do I.
Ask the Perrywinkles.
The feds did not tell him to give them in state tuition nor did the legislators tell him to believe that conservatives are racists and heartless. That is silly.
Huffington Post... I will not besmirch my screen. How was it that such a magnate of conservatism needs Huffington Post to get his message out accurately huh?
Yes, there are a number of requirements that must be met before the child of an illegal receives the benefit of in-state tuition.
And, by the way, that is not free tuition, it is simply the tuition that all Texans pay.
I don’t know all the requirements but one of them is that they must be pursuing a path to citizenship.
Has anyone ever raised cattle behind an electric fence?
As a boy, I did. I even peed on an electric fence on a dare. Only once.
Electric fences do not kill anything unless you are dumb enough not to let go and continue crossing.
I've never heard of cattle, one of the dumbest creatures on God's green earth, even being killed by an electric fence. The reason is simple: the shock is not strong enough to electrocute you, but strong enough to make you remember never to touch the electric fence again.
Herman Cain isn't talking about killing border crashers. He is talking about border security.
I like the idea of cutting the subsidies. All the subsidies are doing is creating false markets and bad pricing.
The cost doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if it’s paid for. It STILL ENCOURAGES ILLEGAL ALIENS TO COME! Is that all you got?
If it isn’t an actual killer fence like those around prison yards, then it’s weak enough to ground out from the Mexican side.
What is it about 4 dissenters in the entire state of Texas regarding the in-state tuition for illegals do you not get?
Okay, but it’s a very naive plan by someone who doesn’t have much of a clue about the Texas border.
Cain likes simple plans that sound good in sound bites.
9-9-9 Zap the intruders.
Love it.
Nice try. Blacks are upset the Illegals take jobs away.
To the tune of Beethoven’s 5th...
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I get that Texas has a problem with illegals that has spread across this country and they want to give the illegals things that entice them to come here. I have a problem with that. I don’t want to give the illegals anything but a way back home. I know, just call me heartless.
“It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you — Warning.’”
Google it, it should get you to the source.
Where is your link to that? I would like to see more info on that please.
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