Posted on 01/31/2005 6:15:41 PM PST by Klickitat
Not me, I live in Texas. I loves dem cheap exotic foods from California. Avocados, artichokes, grapes, wines, oranges, cantaloupes, dates...even lettuce and tomatoes.
What do I care if California schools, hospitals, and parks are suffering? Ain't my case that them Californians are paying the highest taxes in the world. So what if they are paying more for shacks than the rest of the country pays for mansions? Their gang problems, drug problems, diseases, litter, weeds, congestion don't make me no nevermind.
I figure they must like it or else they would accept the offer of the Bush administration to train their state and local police to enforce the immigration laws. Bet it wouldn't take them one month to bust all the employers of illegals in the valley. Maybe a week per zip code in Los Angles.
But if they don't care why should I. Send me more cheap food California. And thanks for driving all the companies out with your high taxes. They really pay good for our real estate in Texas.(think its cheap, yuk yuk) And just let us know if you need any electricity.
Thanks for posting this, BTW!
I find it odd, also. I even let moderators know about a duplicate thread but nothing was done about it.
We'll keep that in mind next time Texas has its hand out.
There has been no duplicate on this piece by Rush.
This is a real dilemna for the Rush/Bush bots. The other day Rush actually expresed concern for workers who are seeing their wages eroded by mega-immigration. Rush is a smart guy, I'm glad he finally made a stand.
Don't ask the rest of the country to pay higher taxes for more guards and fences as long as y'all keep paying them to come in.
Rush is quite behind on this, but, hey, better late than never.
The now attitude regarding socialism is "aint nuttin wrong with socialism"!
I was not talking about this thread.
The original post you agreed with: "Isn't it amazing how many times this has been posted in the last 6 hours and yet it appears none of the threads have been pulled."
Maybe you're just upset about the subject matter.
No need to freak out about it.
The real problem is that most of our politicians and media talking heads don't have a clue.
We don't need "immigration reform" in the slightest. Our current laws work quite well with people who follow the rules we set for immigration. A prospective legal immigrant goes through a thorough background check to prove they are of good character, a full physical exam to prove they are not a health hazard, demonstrates some sort of needed skill and/or means of support, and has a sponsor who is responsible for keeping that person from becoming a burden on the rest of society. Illegal aliens just jump the fence -- with none of the above conditions met. The best they deserve is a polite but firm deportation.
What we really need is border security reform and interior enforcement reform -- and I use the term reform very loosely. Again, we have many existing laws more than adequate for the purpose. All we lack is politicians and bureaucrats with sufficient gonads to enforce existing law.
Let's say Jose has been caught crossing by the Border Patrol for the second time. The first time was a misdemeanor freebie; the second time was a felony. What if the we applied the felony rules? Jose is suddenly dirt cheap prison labor, working on public works projects of our choice for a minimum of a year -- followed by instant deportation. The third time, if he's way stupid? That's an aggravated offense and he ends up dressed in orange for a long time, doing jobs that Americans really, really, really don't want to do.
Or let's say a local company (Legree Industies, Inc.) gets caught with a bunch of illegals off the books. In this case, our immigration laws are just icing on the cake. RICO could also apply; unfair labor practices could generate huge civil suits; and tax evasion would result in all of the shuddering horrors that the IRS can bring to bear. It was no accident that the AgJobs bill contains a sweeping amnesty for employers.
Unless and until our pissant political parasites can demonstrate a sustained and successful record of border security and interior enforcement, they have no business even considering things like immigration reform or guest worker programs.
Not that I have much hope. Just about every politician out there would pimp out his gray-haired granny's fanny on a street corner if it meant a hat full of votes or a fist full of campaign cash.
Good idea. And if you moved out here maybe you could be famous as the first prosecutee. Nothing like a perp walk on prime time to wake up the scofflaw employer-felons.
I learn your mayor don't like y'all, your sheriff don't like y'all, the CBP don't like y'all, and now 44% of your people in your county want to give illegals free welfare.
Haven't you told them all the things you told us? The litter and cut fences, and frightened barnyard animals, and other horrors?
It's OK to agree with Buchanan on some issues and not others. He's a very intelligent and practical guy. Americans should be paid as much as it takes to do the work that is to be done. We don't need to bring in slave labor to do our dirty work. We just need to be paid what it's worth. To argue otherwise is anti-capitalist. People would come here by the millions, some to work for free, if we just would let them all in. Where does that end? Answer: it doesn't. Let's stop what we've started and put Americans back to work -- before it's too late.
Makes sense to me. You don't mind making them legal do you?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.