Posted on 04/28/2006 7:05:12 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Schwarzenegger, sadly, seems to stand with President Bush.
well I hope all the Ahnold fan club members are happy...
it'll be interesting to see how many of these politicians show up Monday for the illegal alien protests.
That's total BS. At 15% the figure would be more than double that, or about 5.2 million.
California -156 years ago!
Do you know what happened this week back in 1850, in California?
California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gun fights in the streets.
So basically, it was just like California today except the women had real breasts and men
didn't hold hands.
Am so glad I did NOT vote for Arnold, I would have bruises from kicking myself for the last 2 years.
Nearly 40% of California's K -12 public education students have Hispanic surnames. Of those approximately 85% can attribute their heritage to illegal immigration since 1965.
That's about 2.1M children alone. Add in two generations of adults and those folks who have sneaked in during the last five years and the number is conservatively well over 10M residents in California that are a consequence of illegal immigration.
The consequences of illegal immigrating, principally Mexican, is the 400 lb gorilla that roams California, consuming nearly 50% of California's social safety net. It is the taxpayer's single biggest expense. None but a few inside government will even acknowledge its existence. It is the mythical big foot from a political standpoint. Infrequently seen, rarely addressed and shrouded in mystery.
Illegal immigration continues to quietly chew away California's annual budget while the state's executive and legislature argue over levees, dams and freeways.
He sure is a BOGUS BOZO, ain't he!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!
STEPHANOPOULOS: Another bit issue that Washington has been dealing with is immigration. You've been outspoken on it as well. You wrote in the Wall Street Journal that we have to base any solution on two principles: control of the border and compassion for immigrants. I want to flush that out a little bit. When you talk about control of the border one of the big proposals out there is, in the house, they want a 700 mile wall down across the southern border. Are you for that?SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I think that it would be ludicrous to limit yourself to just building a wall. I mean, we're going back to the Stone Ages here. I mean, we are landing man on the moon, and we are in outer space and we are doing all of those great things. I think there is other technology that we can secure the borders. If I say now, yes, let's build a wall, but what prevents you from building a tunnel. How many tunnels have been built in these last 10 years? I mean we've detected tunnels left and right that people just drive trucks through. And there are air conditioned systems in these tunnels and water flow and food supply and everything. I think that it is crazy to think a wall alone will do it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You've also talked about compassion for immigrants. And President Bush, Senator McCain, Senator Kennedy all look at that principle and say we need a path to earned citizenship. If you're here illegally, that you but pay back taxes, pay a fine, wait in line, work hard, you should be able to become a citizen. Do you agree with that?
SCHWARZENEGGER: I agree that there should be a way to earn your citizenship, especially people that have been here for a long time, people that have contributed to our economy, that have contributed to our society, they have done community work, they been great citizens. I think we should give them a chance for redemption and for, you know, earning their way in by paying, doing more community work and all of those things and passing a test, a language test, a citizenship test, and all of those things. Yes. We should. Because the other thing that people talk about which is let's send them all back. I mean think about that. How do you do that logistically? How does that work? To send 12 million people back. It would cost $500 Billion dollars. Who's gonna pay for that? I mean it's ludicrous to think this way.
STEPHANOPOULOS: As you know, the critics of earned citizenship call it amnesty. Just in March you wrote in the LA Times "granting citizenship to people that are here illegally is not just amnesty, it's anarchy." So you have changed your view?
SCHWARZENEGGER: No. Not at all. I don't believe in amnesty at all. I think that amnesty doesn't work. I think that's why I said one has to be able to earn their citizenship. There's a difference between just, you know, saying from now on, you know, 12 million can stay here and we will give you citizenship. That's amnesty.
I'd rather insult BOZO, than BONZO!!! (It's past his bedtime!)
There is part of the problem. It's not supposed to be a popularity contest. Whatever happened to doing what's right?
Thus, my name for him: "The Great Equivocator".
Tell me it doesn't fit...
Yes, he is.
I can't.
Of course, "capitulator" works most of the time as well.
I could toss in "The Great Compromiser" but Frist and Hastert already have joint ownership...
The BOHICA Brigade rides again!
You sure been lyin low lately. I keep pingin ya, but yer head never pops up!!!
Been hanging out somewhere else.
Steal it.
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