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Posted on 02/24/2012 3:06:35 PM PST by Lmo56
"That’s the kind of balance you need," said Geithner. "Why is that the case? Because if you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to -- the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security."
It is a privilege for illegals to be here, but it is a right, not a privilege, to be an American if you are a legal citizen.
The really nice thing about discarding the Constitution is you can pretty much do or say any outrageous thing you want and the peasants can’t do anything about it.
Wow , that is truly Marxist.
You either took what I posted the wrong way, or I didn't present it accurately. As an American, whose family has been here for many generations, I have a right to be here. I am grateful and fortunate to be an American. However, those who are here illegally, and who get a pass, are the privileged ones, because they reap the rewards of this great country that American citizens created. Though not well written, I hope you get the drift.
They are purposely chasing sucessful job creators and economic investors out of this country to further kill the economy. Everything they do is planned and executed with help from abroad and from within.
“It is a privilege for illegals to be here,”
Nope.
Illegal aliens—the majority Mexican nationals—have no privilege to be here, unless you mean privilege in the sense that their presence is suffered, while real immigrants who follow our immigration laws and rules are not privileged.
Illegal aliens are simply illegal, not exercising a privilege—here because they broke our laws by sneaking across our borders and then living criminal shadow-lives.
The current administration and the Bush administration would have (if they could) simply gifted them American citizenship (And what do you get if you reward bad behavior?) while making the argument here that American citizenship is this really valuable thing that Americans should be willing to be taxed, and taxed again, for enjoying ... while the soundrels collecting the taxes make these specious arguments—and thumb their own noses at our tax and immigration law—and, for that matter, at any law that interferes with their agenda.
priv·i·lege (prv-lj, prvlj)
n.
1.
a. A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste. See Synonyms at right.
b. Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
2. The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity: a society based on privilege.
The latter is exactly right, the first is not. It is not a privilege but an effrontery for “undocumented” alien to come here from a country which would arrest me in a heartbeat if I were “undocumented” there whether or not I claimed “citizen of the world” status there.
“Privilege of being” a victim of the debt regime for regulations and political correctness. Prepare to be robbed of all that you have by local, federally funded members of the middle, bipartisan political class. Or shut down their offices, and lay them off.
I’ve debated a liberal guy at work. This is exactly what he says. Liberals really do think like this.
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