I'm glad the wife and I just sold our house in Los Angeles, because as Neal Boortz points out amnesty for illegal aliens is now guaranteed.
I saw Richard Gephardt on the tube this morning. Naturally he was quite pleased with yesterday's developments. He was doing a good job of chanting the "The must compromise" mantra of the new Democrat majority. More specifically, Gephardt was saying that there would probably be pretty quick action on immigration reform, now that the Republican control of the House was gone.He's right. Amnesty for illegals is on the way. President Bush is for it. The Senate had already voted for it. The only roadblock was the House. Now, with Democrats in control, the House will be eager to go along.
This will be one of the first moves the Democrats make ... right after they go to raise the minimum wage. Amnesty for illegal aliens will be the order of the day, amnesty without any meaningful controls to make sure that the invasion ceases.
Every one of these invaders is looked on as a potential future vote by Democrats. Nothing will be done to stem the tide.
He's right, and although California, Arizona, and New Mexico will bear the brunt our whole country will suffer for it. There are six billion people who would love to live here, and they're all poor. America simply can't absorb them all. It's not a matter of compassion or "fairness", it's just simple math. Math that the Democrats think will cement them in power forever, because they rely on people who vote for a living. (That is, people whose livelihood depends on handouts from the people they vote into power.)
You should fo kept the house in Los Angeles, at $100 a illegal and 100 illegals per room....you could be making $60,000 a month, and thats if you didn't put up a circus tent in the back yard.
Oh and you aren't safe in St. Louis, if the can swim across the Rio Grande, they can swim across the Arkansas River.
Hmmmmm...
Run away from the poor. Dear Lord don't give those uneducated factory workers a pay rise! Protect our wealth. Fear any threat to it.
Just like Jesus would have done...
Andrew: Yep, glad you see our point.
There are six billion people who would love to live here, and they're all poor. America simply can't absorb them all.
I don't think that every person in the world living outside of America is both poor and wanting to live here, but I digress...the illegals currently here are for the most part employed. They don't qualify for any form of welfare or such. The "amnesty" plans all would only allow people in with jobs.
And I'm pretty sure I've suggested this to you, but let suggest it again...if you are so anti-illegal immigrant why not boycott products and services that are provided by illegal immigrant labour. Its not that much of a burden to avoid American farm products, restaurants (s/b easy since you wouldn't be eating anyways), hotels, construction, etc. is it?
Manish: Where do you live again? In California, anyway, it's illegal for the various social workers and hospital workers to require people to prove residency becayse providing services at taxpayer expense. (Not that any of them would want to deny service to anyone, qualified or not.) Regardless of who "qualifies" legally, illegal immigrants get massive handouts, such as public education, that are a drain on citizens.
As for your boycott suggestion, why shouldn't I benefit from them some small amount if they're already exploiting me and our country?
MW: As for your boycott suggestion, why shouldn't I benefit from them some small amount if they're already exploiting me and our country?
If you want them out, the best way is to boycott. I don't believe in Walmarts business practises, so I don't buy from them. They are a leach on society too. Between the healthcare that they don't provide to their employees who end up on medicaid, to the employees who don't make enough to then pay enough in taxes to pay for their schooling. (It seems my issues with Walmart are similar to your issues with illegals). Legalizing the illegals would have them more regularly paying taxes to pay for those services. Some form of mandatory employer-paid health coverage would reduce the amount that Walmart and illegals live off the public dole...but of course, we can't have Walmart pay its fair share..its only the illegals that should be doing that.
If enough people boycott, they will all have to leave. Even if some people boycott, the ramifications are that some of the illegals will have to leave because they will lose their jobs to Americans.
Manish: Your issues with WalMart are completely baseless... whenever a new WalMart opens they get 10 applications for every job opening, which shows that people want the jobs quite a bit. If anything, they may be overcompensated. Your idea of a "fair share" is obviously not shared by the workers who actually clamor for the jobs.
However, despite the fact that your complaints are nonsensical and have no standing, both of our concerns could be addressed very simply: eliminate all the government programs that subsidize WalMart's low wages and encourage illegal immigration. We could have wide open borders if we didn't then educate and heal all comers. Likewise, WalMart would have to pay "fair" wages because they wouldn't be supplemented by government wealth redistribution. Illegal immigration would almost cease, because few people could afford to come here from Mexico (and the ones who did certainly wouldn't have extra cash to mail back to their relatives).
I see it as a win for both you and me; what do you think?
Michael..your creating a strawman..where did I say that people didn't want the jobs? What I'm saying is that we the people subsidize Walmart. Have you ever applied for individual health insurance? Its both expensive (and not tax-advantaged like company paid health-care) and tough to get if you have anything other than perfect health. Company-paid healthcare is the only viable reality for most working people.
Walmart pays their employees little enough that many qualify for medicaid, while companies that offer their employees health benefits have difficulty competing..and to add insult to injury their tax dollars go to subsidize health care for Walmart employees.
You are also avoiding my original question..if you feel so strongly against illegal immigration why not demand that the goods and services you purchase be only produced by Americans? There is a market for organic food, why isn't there a market for American produced produce? I'm willing to pay higher prices to avoid shopping at Walmart.
I think what you don't want to acknowledge is that you enjoy things like eating and don't want to go without such a basic necessity. The illegals are an integral part of the American economy. Its time that they received the recognition that they have tacitly been welcome here. Do you really think that the President or Congress wants all of them to leave?
I see it as a win for both you and me; what do you think?
Where we see eye to eye is that the working poor are subsidized by the government..be they Walmart employees or illegal immigrants. If said poor were paid a living wage with health benefits, the government wouldn't be subsidizing them anymore. Why don't we agree to that? A living wage for Walmart employees and illegal immigrants. It seems a whole lot more Christian to me than cutting the poor off from education and health care.