Posted on 07/22/2014 9:20:23 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
WASHINGTON – As the only member of Congress to serve in both Vietnam and Iraq, Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich., knows what a dysfunctional country looks like.
He has seen his share of suffering and squalor during 27 years of service in the U.S. Army and National Guard, and after evacuating from the surge in Iraq in 2007 with a neck wound.
On Monday, Bentivolio had just returned from a three-day fact-finding trip to Central America to see the source of the immigration crisis for himself.
The congressman told WND that conditions in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are certainly not great and there is much hardship, but they are not war zones.
As for the recent avalanche of immigrants?
“I really wouldn’t call them refugees,” said Bentivolio, while also expressing great sympathy for their plight.
He noted, “Our kids are facing similar problems. We have to put our own house in order first.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
(Clarification time...) Hey, I’m not questioning his service, my Michigan family is fully involved in service to the country. He served thrice...good on him.
John Effin Kerry served only part of the conflict he signed up for and then renounced his efforts of the same (and correspondingly insulted the service of every soldier he served with)!
I’m just wondering if this might be a “deflection” effort for the use of the Dhimmicrats. Much like we tend to use Jon Cary’s “(egg)shell fragments in Cambodia” against his service credibility.
I’m guessing it’s just world net daily spicing things up a bit.
Kerry Bentivolio is also bushing a bill to get the federal government largely out of highway funding through the sale of bonds.
“Most of the kids are pudgy, and the adult women usually are quite overweight.”
Sure; make no mistake about it: This is simply trafficking to bolster the populations of dying states (and WASP population headed towards extinction). We are Japan now, but fortunate enough to have a land border over which we can import replacements.
“A diet consisting moslty of corn and rice will do that. It has been shown (don’t have the citations handy). that poor people tend to be more obese than the more well-to-do.”
Arid parts of Africa have truly poor people, and there is nothing obese about them (the concept literally doesn’t exist). Central America is a great climate for agriculture, and the oceans provide plenty (I don’t recall any famine there). OUR poor people are often fat because they don’t have to do anything (literally).
Central Americans with thousands of dollars to send people to the taxpayer sugar-daddies in El Norte are hardly poor.
I remember him from the “I-69 = NAFTA” brush-up. He’s right, they are wrong.
Seriously! Like the Canoogians ^wanted^ crappy mexican exports! They prefer IKEA imports from “South Detroit”.
Don’t take much Mountian Dew to get there, brother.
Cong. Bentivolio was not exposing much truth about the 'kids'. His delegation, as is usual, sat around in suits and ties being briefed by state officials. If he had taken off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, visited the poorer barrios and actually spoken with some residents, he would have been exposed to the truth:
- they are not 'kids': 2/3rd are males over 14;
- there is a large criminal gang element; and
- the motivation is a life of welfare that is many times better than a life of work at home.
Also, anyone that can afford to pay a gang $3,000 to $7,000 to smuggle their gang-banger teen to the U.S. is at least upper-middle class. The average Central American doesn’t have a chance to be part of this scam. Our misplaced generosity is really sympathy for the devil.
The famine mode genes turn on and your metabolism slows down for storage. If the mother is in famine mode, the babies will be, too. I was shocked at the condition of their clothes. Newer than many of mine (but I hate shopping).
This may be of interest .
The mamacitas have a figure like a burrito and they don’t even eat burritos in Guatemala. The invaders are Indians. Indios as the Spanish ruling class disdainfully calls them. Many speak Indian dialects and no Spanish. The rest of the invaders are semi-Indian called mestizo which means mixed.
The ones from Honduras will have some African blood due to its history of slavery
bkmk
Quick! Get them into those Democrat feeding programs...Where schools serve 3 meals a day even in summer. We don't want the UN accusing us of starving them. of not rolling out the red carpet for these "refugees" Who are in fact being funneled into our refugee programs under the Federale HHS agenacy. Refugees get welfare bennies immediately! All of them including SBA loan preferences
Whoop. Whoop. Sounds like a great man.
Too simple, too obvious, not enough graft in it for most politicians, too American centric, too proper, too right.
Can’t be done.
Still, it works for me as well.
Wow! Straight, clear, concise and by all appearances truthful. Reads like some with republican principles but and American Identification.
Worth the read, thanks.
I ask, how can these people afford the price the coyotes
demand to take them across the border. I’ve heard prices
anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 dollars.
They are pudgy because they have a high carbohydrate low meat and vegetables diet. I ran out of money when I was in college in Mexico City. Friend who borrowed money didn’t pay it back, and mom’s check was 3 weeks late. I lived for 3 weeks on $5 american (1958). Ate lots of tortillas and rolls, with a beer after classes bought by a student I flirted with. Put on 10 pounds in that 3 weeks, lost them in 3 months after back in US.
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