Part II "The Southern Menace"
Posted on 04/04/2006 8:56:39 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
ixnay on the shuncoloniztay alktay. i still hold out hope hundreds of thousands of economically incentivized Americans will emigrate to the Orinoco region of Venezuela. They can send back oil instead of money. Marching with the US flag would be de riguer. Same same.
Why don't we just take the oil and SCREW mexico. They say we're so bad... don't you sometimes wish we would just live down to the rhetoric that every thugocracy in the world spouts about us and show them what REAL hardball is?
I agree with most of what Keyes has to say here. Most of the arguments you see elsewhere focus on how American business is benefiting and exploiting these people, and how they are a drain on public resources. I have not seen this other argument -- that these people are here for their own benefit with no intention or desire to become citizens.
Keyes seems to favor legal immigration and citizenship, however, even of the unskilled and uneducated. He says this is good in that it will prevent "taxation without representation". I disagree with this. Increasing the class of legal workers that are unskilled will still depress wages and result in no taxes being paid.
As the progressive income tax brackets ratchet to higher income levels each year, this means that more and more people will fall off the income-tax rolls. This is the opposite of "taxation without representation" -- it is, in effect, "representation without taxation". Increasing the number of voters that do not pay for larger government is a recipe for disaster.
Keyes has in the past supported a NRST, but doesn't mention it in this article. That is disappointing, because I think it is a critical piece to the illegal immigration problem. Even with the NRST replacing income taxes, however, adding to the pool of legal low-wage unskilled labor has the same problem. These people would still consume public services and vote, but they would not pay any net taxes because they'd be eligible for the FCA. We would still have "representation without taxation."
We need mechanization to replace the manual labor that is currently being done by illegal aliens, not more legal aliens or even citizens performing low-wage manual labor. Legal immigration should be limited to people capable of performing skilled work. Retaining the manual labor jobs just lowers the standard of living for all Americans.
Don't forget, there were hebrew imigrants that moved to Egypt. After about 400 yrs of working the farmland and construction were too numerous and the Egyptian officials were afraid that the number of Hebrews were more than Egyptians, so all the babies under 2yrs were slaughtered, to break a generation. The Hebrews eventually moved out...under the leadership of Moses with the Guidance of God.
In any case, you can be assured that Dr. Keyes still very much supports the FairTax.
True, true.... but we have to be better than that...
The colonizers are increasingly well-integrated with the radical Left, that's for sure.
During what other occupation could you get such great lawn care, and cheap lettuce and strawberries? This has to be the best occupying force ever!!! /S
Too bad this won't fit on a bumper sticker..... ;)
Teddy had it so right! Not Kennedy, but Roosevelt!
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
LOL...
Dr. Keyes is absolutely right.
Both are a serious threat to national security.
I just don't see the majority of Mexicans as threats to national security. Maybe because I have Mexican neighbors and have never had any problems with them. They go to work, come home, take care of their children. Kind of like I do.
As Rush put it, when the minority that don't pay taxes becomes the majority, it's all over.
I think you shouldn't be able to vote if you don't pay Federal Income Tax. There's a word for Representation without Taxation -- Tyranny.
I still can't support the NRST because if the Income tax is not completely abolished to go along with it, we just wind up with a new tax.
excellent post. I hope dr Keyes moves to Texas and runs for Senate there
You're a funny guy.
Umm...I was actually being series.
Why? Racial Superiority? If we didn't think we were superior we wouldn't be so high & mighty. We'd get down in the muck and roll around with these barbarians. We'd show them the true meaning of the word "Ugly American."
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