Posted on 01/31/2014 10:25:32 AM PST by KGeorge
Edited on 01/31/2014 10:31:28 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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 workforce, 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. snip
krap
krap we are screwed again
He’s so far right he’s left, blaming corporations for wanting to make profits.
Yes, NAFTA was another of his policies totally perverted by the corporatists.
1rudeboy- He does mention GHWB, but I can’t decide if he’s brushing aside the mistakes made by Presidents Reagan & Bush with “the Reagan democrats ‘abandoning’”. I think he is.
Yes, he probably should. As I understand it, the last president (or republican president) we had who dealt with illegal immigration in any realistic way was Eisenhower (before my time as I was a little kid). And that was during great prosperity.
Buckeye- Yeppir. And they surely will. I hadn’t heard that quote from Trumka before. (or even thought about it)
Graewolf- we can only hope that there are (still) enough unaffiliated Americans- & even some democrats, who see the hideous folly of continuing to allow illegals, unabated, into the country.
The only thing I would add to your reply is that they’re not waiting for anything (wrt to illegals, 0bamacare, NSA, or anything else). They *know* how the American people feel & they don’t care. They do this stuff *anyway*.
I can’t find it right quick, but there was an article in the last few days about ICE people all but begging Congress to enforce the immigration laws & not pass amnesty.
Years ago, I knew someone (ironically, a liberal) who had “Impeach Congress” painted on their rear bumper. I’ve been fighting the impulse to do the same for a while now (at least since 2007). Speaking of 2007, if the American people succeeded in 2007- with a democrat House *and* Senate* & this passes now, what will that say about our “representatives”? That’s a rhetorical question, of course.
You are fine to state your opinion as fact, but it doesn’t make it so.
Just look for the union label.
Agree. Others can look at the record for themselves and decide fact from fiction.
The Reid-Peloci ACA Bill was rammed through with a solid Democart endorsement 12-24-2009.
In March, 2010, 14 months after he took office as the White House resident, Obama made the ACA Bill a Federal Law with a delayed start in 2013 and 2014.
Since that time Boehner has staged some 40 + lackluster votes to placate his 80 some TEA Party Members.
Boehner has been kept in power by Obama and Reid because they now that Boehner will do nothing for the good of the Country because Boehner can be bought.
Boehner pledged to repeal Obamacare, and two months later Boehner said this: “Obamacare is the Law of the Land.”
There have been NO attempts by Boehner to go for the jugular by appointing a Special prosecutor for any of the 4 major Obama Derelictions of Duty.
Boehner made no attempts to stop the illegal changing of the Obamacare Law by the Administration, effectively approving the re-writing of Law by the administration.
No dictatorial Administration could have a more helpful Speaker of the House than John “Benghazi Coverup” Boehner.
Boehner had one last chance when Reid and Obama refused to negotiate, and thereby Reid and Obama shut down part of the Federal Government.
Then Boehner refused to follow Senator Cruz and Lee, and folded to Reid and Obama like the cheap suit that he is.
Boehner is someone that should never have gone into politics.
Amen!!
Preach it brother~
The future depends on action on the thoughts you have noted
To live looking into a mirror reflecting the past is doom
Clearly they don't have the votes and are too chicken to stand up without enough votes, and be punished when they fail.
You’re absolutely right. Many businesses can’t relocate. A concrete company, for example, is pretty much stuck where it works. However, manufacturing companies can pretty much go anywhere, and they do. As the article notes, that’s why America has lost so many manufacturing jobs. We’ve made the price of legally doing business in the US too high, and I don’t think immigration amnesty is going to fix it.
I can’t cite a list of articles he’s written, right off the top of my head, but yes, Pat Buchanan is a proponent of *much* smaller government. I’ll try & dig around later & post or Freepmail some links to you.
In 1985, Roger [Milliken] had come to the White House to persuade me to convince the president to sign a bill to slow the flood of textiles into the country. No way, I told Mr. Milliken. I'm the biggest free-trader in the building, except for the fellow down the hall, who was Ronald Reagan. Roger went away disappointed. Reagan vetoed the bill. And I supervised the writing of the veto message.Note the implication that Reagan never "had seen the light."Within half a decade, however, some of us had seen the light and enlisted in Roger's crusade to preserve the manufacturing core of the country that he rightly saw as inextricably tied to the prosperity and the pre-eminence of the United States.
Patrick J. Buchanan, Requiem for a Patriot, January 4, 2010.
Debate had to be cut off, that required some GOPe support, female as I recall. Though they claimed they only voted to let the Senate debate and vote on the bill, it was De facto passage of the bill.
Good image of Boehner taking a GEE OH PEE !
Then ask yourself if what we have today in any way resembles his stated vision
Why not just post some here?
Does Pat seriously blame corporations for doing their fiduciary duty and trying to avoid unions—which not only cost more, but try to make jobs and job descriptions stand still when the marketplace never does? That's just nuts. I blame anyone who hasn't been fighting to get rid of Federal labor laws, which exempt unions from the laws the rest of have to follow—which are all unconstitutional. I blame Detroit unions and the politicians they bought for the death of the US auto industry because of competition from superior Japanese cars.
And now take a look at Wisconsin, Pat. Unions aren't in charge anymore, and the place is booming with American jobs. Get the idea?
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