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Posted on 01/31/2014 4:11:14 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Out of the Republican retreat on Maryland’s Eastern shore comes word that the House leadership is raising the white flag of surrender on immigration.
The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens, and sign on to a blanket amnesty. It only asks that the 12 million not be put on a path to citizenship.
Sorry, but losers do not dictate terms. Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO says amnesty is no longer enough. Illegal aliens must be put on a path to citizenship and given green cards to work — and join unions.
Rep. Paul Ryan and the Wall Street Journal are for throwing in the towel. Legalize them all and start them on the path to citizenship.
A full and final capitulation. Let’s get it over with.
To understand why and how the Republican Party lost Middle America, and faces demographic death, we need to go back to Bush I.
At the Cold War’s end, the GOP reached a fork in the road. The determination of Middle Americans to preserve the country they grew up in, suddenly collided with the profit motive of Corporate America.
The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production abroad — where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America.
Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American work force, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign labor.
While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers.
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all.
U.S. factories in the scores of thousands were shut down, shedding their American workers. Foreign-made goods poured in, filling U.S. stores and killing the manufacturers who had stayed behind, loyal to their U.S. workers.
The Reagan prosperity was exported to Asia and China by the Bush Republicans. And the Reagan Democrats reciprocated by deserting the Bush Republican Party and going home. But this was not the end of what this writer described in his 1998 book, “The Great Betrayal.”
As those hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, fast-food shops, car washes, groceries and other service industries also relished the rewards of cheap foreign labor, they got government assistance in replacing their American workers.
Since 1990, some 30 to 40 million immigrants, legal and illegal, have entered the country.
This huge increase in the labor force, at the same time the U.S. was shipping factories abroad, brought massive downward pressure on wages. The real wages of Middle Americans have stagnated for decades.
What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle America.
The party went with the folks who paid for their campaigns, only to lose the folks who had given them their landslides.
When Republicans accede to the demand for amnesty, and immigration without end, it does not take a political genius to see what is going to happen. For it is happening now.
Almost all of those breaking our laws, crossing the border, and overstaying their visas are young, poor or working class. Between 80 and 90 percent are from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
They are Third World peoples. They believe in government action and government programs that provide their families with free education, health care, housing, food, and income subsidies. They are not Bob Taft or Barry Goldwater conservatives.
Perhaps 85 percent of all immigrants, legal and illegal, more than a million a year now, are people of color. And while over 70 percent of Hispanics and Asians voted Democratic for Obama, among voters of African descent, the Obama vote was well above 90 percent.
Four of every five U.S. citizens of Asian, African and Hispanic descent vote Democratic in presidential elections. And it is their numbers that are growing. Already they are well over a third of the U.S. population.
As has been observed often, America, demographically, is going to look like California. And while Nixon won California all five times he was on a national ticket, and Reagan won California in landslides all four times he ran, California has not gone Republican in six straight presidential elections.
Democrats outnumber Republicans there by more than two-to-one in the Congressional delegation and in the state assembly, and not a single Republican holds statewide office.
If Bush I had built that border fence back in 1992 and declared a moratorium on legal immigration that fall, as many implored him to do, the party of the Bushes would not be facing its demise well before midcentury.
Agenda 21 is working just fine and both the GOP and Dims like it that way.
“You really can’t blame the government of a nation for wanting to dump its surplus undesirable riffraff off on somebody else”
So true. Mexico does not want to have to reform their corrupt political, law enforcement and judicial system. They don’t want to have to create jobs for their own people.
Mexico only opens the Northern Border. In the south they shoot Guatemalans.
This is the nexus of the GOP, who IMNVHO, are responsible for the decayed state of the Republic. In the 1950's if not earlier, the GOP ideology gave way to an acceptance of the Democraty Party as the usual default majority party. The GOP has degenerated from the party that saved the Union and freed the slaves into a very dependably loyal sham "opposition."
In exchange for safely gerrymandered seats, the GOP cheerfully traded its place as the party of Main St. and increasingly became the Party of Wall Street. In those brief interludes when the GOP has Congressional majorities, they become confused and cynical at the same time, cooperating with the Democrats to spend the Republic into oblivion.
Safe seats means the GOP are free to work with lobbyists and fat-cat contributors, simultaneously reaching across the aisle to divvy up the pork with the Democrats in exchange for their complaisant voting. The only present reason for the existence of the GOP: to protect massive corporate givers from the outrages of the bureaucracy which runs the lives of the rest of us. I.E., the bureaucracy (and the lobbyists) who write the so-called "laws" that are the shameful product of Congress.
Safe seats means that the GOP establishment ... our RINOS ... are largely immune to any of the consequences of their actions. The RNC finances them to wins in their primaries and the constituency take the hindmost.
Result: E.G., Boehner. McConnell. Graham. Snow. Collins. Hatch. etc. ad nauseam. With Republican friends such as these, conservatives have little need of the Democrats as the enemy.
If the GOP goes for amnesty then I’m done with the GOP because it’ll have killed itself and I don’t hang out with people who support suicide.
“Protectionism, of the border and our domestic industries, looks better every day.”
Horse-barn-empty-gone.
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When it comes to the critical congressional votes, such as on amnesty, the solidly leftist ‘Rats plus the GOPe (elite) Quisling traitors will always constitute a majority in favor of plundering the carcass of a once great and proud nation.
...and then cry bloody murder if any American politician proposes to do a tenth of the same at our own border.
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