Posted on 04/01/2006 6:57:01 AM PST by Supernatural
It's a new chapter in the Promised Land. We are becoming The Land That Better Keep Its Promises - or Else. Even promises that never were made.
A half-million illegal aliens and friends and sympathizers have taken to the streets of late, demanding unhampered residency and employment. Their anger is being whipped up against an America that would fence its borders against more coming over, and require proper payroll-keeping and taxpaying from employers who hire them outside the law.
Why? In part because a new myth is gaining currency. It is that illegal immigrants, mostly of Mexican or other Hispanic origin, "built this country." Without them the economy would collapse.
"We are the motor of this nation!" a speaker harangued the 500,000 who marched in Los Angeles on Saturday. "We construct your schools! We cook your food!" Other thousands marched to this beat of indispensability in Phoenix, Denver and Milwaukee.
That people who entered the United States by stealth feel entitled to tie up U.S. downtowns with their grievances is nervy in the first place. But their slant on U.S. history is off the wall. No better clue might be needed that kids should be taught in English, fast!
It was religious freedom-seekers from England who began building this country, followed by natives of every part of Europe, Asia and Africa. And their descendants keep right on building it as e pluribus unum Americans -- "out of the many, one." Don't expect them to honor some dubious economic necessity to let everybody in.
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Uh, then New Orleans will not be rebuilt. Simple.
As soon as you be a good American, doohickey, and take a job working the fields of an American farmer who has title to his land, instead of you trashing that farmer 24/7.
Haliburton did.
It's the closest thing to free energy and a perpetual motion machine you're ever likely to see. Dane has crunched the numbers personally, so we can have complete confidence that this miracle is indeed real.
Damn straight!
Fine, then where is your call to have welfare payments to Katrina evacuees who refuse to go back to their city to rebuild, terminated.
Oh I forgot you have animus towards a guy named Jose, who is actually rebuilding New Orleans.
If growing food and building buildings is what they want to do--let them do it in their own country--they obviously have an affinity for it since they can't put down their freakiin flags while demanding citizen rights in a country they could give a crap about.
That's it. Thrash that racist strawman, Dane. Haul it out, beat it hard and often.
BTW, when are you going to march down to your local supermarket and demand that all oranges be "picked" by "American" hands?
There was no need for the U.S. to have immigration laws back when people were self-reliant and independent. The German immigrant who settled in the Dakota Territories in the latter half of the 19th century was no different than the American from the East Coast who staked a claim next door to him. They both worked hard every day from dawn until dusk, and from a legal standpoint neither one of them owed anything to the other.
That all changed once government became nothing more than a tool to transfer wealth from one part of the population to another. I would suggest that the establishment of the Federal income tax in 1913 represented a dramatic turning point, followed by the outright socialism of FDR's New Deal programs.
This is why I find it kind of ironic that the most prominent problem this country faces with regard to illegal immigration has been the financial impact these immigrants have on institutions like public schools, public hospitals, etc. that have absolutely no place in a free nation.
You want to put a stop to illegal immigration? Just have the Federal government go back to what it was in 1890 or somewhere thereabouts, and you'll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly these folks all disappear -- or at least they stop concerning you at all.
LOL! Of course it wasn't the cat who put the canary in the cat's mouth.
I wouldn't mind paying a higher price for fruit picked by Americans. At least I would know my taxes were not going to support leeches.
I did my time in the fields, Dane. My family is in the "biz" as it were. I used the knowledge and experience I gained bucking hay, changing irrigation pipes and castrating bullcalves to move on. Obviously, you think that Americans don't need entry-level work; that somehow we're all born with a middle-management spoon in our mouths.
I would much rather pay directly for labor though higher commodity prices that pay for it indirectly though government taxation. Either way, I pay for it. And so do you, if you pay taxes.
BTW, when are you going to explain the physics of this free energy 30 million person illegal alien vegetable picking device that feeds us nearly at no cost without imposing a tax burden?
As soon as you enter the real world and accept that there are such things as trial lawyers and teacher unions.
"Ignore"
Actually, I always thought it was a she--or maybe a he/she--you know, always sort of bitchy.
You can take your race card and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Lincoln High School had maybe 700 students when I was growing up. 60% of those were the sons and daughters of legal Hispanics. They were respected members of the community, because the integrated into it. Tha adopted the American culture, while having pride and keeping their own alive.
In the process, everyone was enriched.
Then why aren't you in the "biz" now.
You are just like your hero tom tancredo. I beleive his family owned a business, but looking over tom tancredo's resume, he hasn't worked in a wealth creating business, only in govt. jobs(teacher, legislator) or in a non-wealth producing think tank.
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