Posted on 03/23/2002 12:46:30 PM PST by antidemocommie
Steve Sailer, member of the Hudson Institute, says:
"Finally, Bush will simply alienate many Hispanics who vote Republican now because they don't like illegal immigration. In a Gallup poll in June, only one-third of Hispanics favored increased immigration. A full one-quarter wanted to cut immigration."
HEHE! I hate to, but I have to do this: No, I am willing to admit that the Soviet Union died shortly after Reagan became president.
It started before Reagan.
Regards
J.R.
We do not think in terms of jurisdiction anymore, but in terms of favoring a social class or another, and this is precisely what Bush is doing: districting social classes and trying to make them content, rich and poor, bipartisan.
Meanwhile, the neglect on issues of jurisdiction means that no social class in the US is immune from jurisdiction encroachments and violations.
I am not surprised Blair seem to like Bush. Both seem to believe that humanism can be contributed by both rich and poor and a diversity of classes in this third way concept of inter-dependence.
This is dangerous because it still leaves the issue of jurisdictional respect and rights respects vulnerable to social engineerings of all classes. We are experiencing a soft communism that is going to deteriorate progressively into a society that does not see evil through jurisdiction violations (as examplified by the Bible when Adam and Eve thought to know more about each other and God's powers through socialy engineered good and evil), rather we will tend to see evil as bad social technical performance aka PC.
It is terrible. I'd rather have a king like BUsh in power than a drug addicted queer like Clinton. But I can't help foresee that one day some people will assert their inalienable jurisdictions and much sufferance will come from that. If not from Civil Wars and world wars, surely through continuous civil rights strife and paralysis of the economy and deep depressions.
Thats a good point. The solution will be the removal of offensive rights i.e. free speech, etc., and the enactment of global wealth redistribution. Christ must be standing in the door.
Republicans Should Say: No, we don't. This social spending is all a result of dishonest perversion of the Constitution, and the Federal Government should not be redistributing the wealth of its citizens under the guise of "compassion" or "social responsibility". Instead, we should eliminate Welfare, Medicare, Social Security and every single other Federal entitlement and return the money to the people.
I think you are largely correct. But let me play devil's advocate for a moment.
If Republicans stayed true to conservatism, do you think they would get anything accomplished? President Bush, for example, is not a dictator, and ultimately he must rely on Congress to write our laws. And Congressional Republicans will always have any eye on re-election.
Being generous, I'd say that maybe 30% of the public would be ready for significant spending cuts and a return to Constitutional government. That's just not enough popular support to keep the Democrats and socialists from dominating the next election, destroying any reforms conservatives make, and even furthering the cause of socialism in this country.
Are you actually Claire Wolfe, and if so, where is Hardyville? I'm ready to move.
Take care,
J.R.
So it's OK to commit political sins as long as there is a foreign enemy? We have a foreign enemy now.
I think Reagan was our greatest president of the twentieth century, but you're condemning Bush43 for the same sins of Reagan without condemning Reagan. You're not being consistant.
So you consider Reagan as part of the problem just as you consider Bush43 as part of the problem?
To Reagan's credit he did not do a lot of damage. However, beyond his tax cut he did nothing to repair the rot and damage in place when he was elected.
Regards
J.R.
That was a complete lie. Reagan proposed the amnesty and pushed it through congress.
Conservatism had the biggest nail driven in its coffin with the passage of the personal income tax. An additional nail was hammered home with the election of FDR. From there on it was a greased downhill slide!!! It is now a certainty that the USA will become a socialist republic. It is only a question of when.
Tuor
Demographers debate source of 'Hispanic' census results
Mark Babineck
Associated Press
Another round of Census 2000 figures released today does nothing to quell a debate among Texas demographers over the remarkable jump in the number of Hispanics not of Mexican ancestry.
The latest figures, further ethnic and racial breakdowns of previous short-form results, offer little new information about Texas. They are more relevant in states with large American Indian populations, which are enumerated in better detail.
In Texas, the numbers are another reminder that nearly two years after the head count began, demographers still aren't completely sure of the ancestry of about 1.5 million "other Hispanics," or 7 percent of the state's 20.9 million residents.
The short form gave Hispanic respondents only three specific options for ancestry: Mexican, Puerto Rican or Cuban. Everything else fell under "other," where people were asked to fill in a blank. However, many are thought to have checked "other" without being specific.
Demographer Steve Murdock, head of the State Data Center at Texas A&M University, thinks the population swell came from an influx of Central Americans during the 1990s.
"I don't think they're of Mexican origin," he said of the "other" category, which increased by 287 percent from about 388,000 in 1990. "I think there's a substantial diversification taking place within the Hispanic community."
Karl Eschbach, a sociology professor at the University of Houston, counters that his number-crunching indicates that a vast majority of the "other" Hispanics are probably Mexican-Americans who, for whatever reason, simply did not check the appropriate box.
That's what I wanted to know. Those that think they are perfect are the enemy of the good.
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