Sarah Palin: 'Amnesty Will Decimate Main Street'

Breitbart ^ | 12 Jun 2014 | Tony Lee

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A day after Dave Brat's shocking primary win over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said amnesty, which was the signature that led to Cantor's downfall, resonates with American workers because of the impact it will have on their livelihoods.

Appearing on Fox News' Hannity, Palin said "amnesty will decimate Main Street" because the "flooding " of "foreign citizens into the country competing for American jobs will flatline our economy" and cause "more unemployment for American workers." Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office has determined that the Senate's amnesty bill will lower the wages of American workers. And Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has hammered that point home whenever he gets a chance, declaring that that massive amnesty legislation hurts American workers of every background and ethnicity, especially those on the lower end of the economic ladder.

[Cheerio]

Palin said those who did not understand Brat's appeal do not have a "thumb on the pulse of what many Americans are thinking" and underestimated the "wisdom of the people."

Brat's victory was a referendum against amnesty. But Brat also used the amnesty issue to more broadly indict Wall Street cronyism that leaves working Americans holding the bag.

Sound familiar?

Those are the signature themes that have defined Palin, who has blasted the political establishment on both sides of the aisle since she first ran for office. And Palin echoed those themes again in a landmark speech in Indianola, Iowa in 2011 (the permanent political class was fawning over Mitt Romney at the time) that slowly injected "crony capitalism" and the "permanent political class" into the broader political bloodstream. In that 2011 speech that defined an enemy for American free-market populists, Palin blasted crony capitalism and clearly differentiated between being pro-free markets and pro-big business. The former reflects a level playing field while the latter often colludes with government to tilt the playing field against Main Street. Palin said in Iowa in 2011:

[Paulie]

**...resonates with American workers because of the impact it will have on their livelihoods.**

Indeed. But I also ask ‘where is the gov’t sense of fairness with immigration?’. What about the millions who did things properly, according to the letter of the law? Who also, btw, work like dogs, pay their taxes, don't cause trouble, and make real contributions to our society?

This is another valid point that I don't hear people talking about at all.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

But, but, Governor, we gotta get those American citizens Not in labor force numbers over 100,000 ASAP and bringing in hundreds of thoussnds of tax-payer subsidized cheap labor is the quickest way of doing it! We're almost there!

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- HOUSEHOLD DATA PUBLISHED FOR MARCH 2005

Civilian noninstitutional population ...........................................	222,550	225,041	225,236	222,550	224,422	224,640	224,837	225,041	225,236
Civilian labor force ..................................................................	146,525	147,649	147,745	146,737	148,313	148,203	147,979	148,132	148,157
Participation rate ...............................................................	65.8	65.6	65.6	65.9	66.1	66.0	65.8	65.8	65.8
Employed ..............................................................................	137,691	139,100	139,759	138,408	140,293	140,156	140,241	140,144	140,501
Employment-population ratio ............................................	61.9	61.8	62.0	62.2	62.5	62.4	62.4	62.3	62.4
Unemployed .........................................................................	8,834	8,549	7,986	8,330	8,020	8,047	7,737	7,988	7,656
Unemployment rate ..........................................................	6.0	5.8	5.4	5.7	5.4	5.4	5.2	5.4	5.2
Not in labor force ....................................................................	76,025	77,392	77,492	75,812	76,109	76,437	76,858	76,909	77,079
Persons who currently want a job .........................................	4,667	4,844	4,858	4,817	5,087	5,021	4,982	4,995	5,001

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- HOUSEHOLD DATA PUBLISHED FOR MAY 2014

Civilian noninstitutional population ...........................................	245,363	247,439	247,622	245,363	246,915	247,085	247,258	247,439	247,622
Civilian labor force ..................................................................	155,734	154,845	155,841	155,609	155,460	155,724	156,227	155,421	155,613
Participation rate ...............................................................	63.5	62.6	62.9	63.4	63.0	63.0	63.2	62.8	62.8
Employed ..............................................................................	144,432	145,767	146,398	143,919	145,224	145,266	145,742	145,669	145,814
Employment-population ratio ............................................	58.9	58.9	59.1	58.7	58.8	58.8	58.9	58.9	58.9
Unemployed .........................................................................	11,302	9,079	9,443	11,690	10,236	10,459	10,486	9,753	9,799
Unemployment rate ..........................................................	7.3	5.9	6.1	7.5	6.6	6.7	6.7	6.3	6.3
Not in labor force ....................................................................	89,629	92,594	91,782	89,754	91,455	91,361	91,030	92,018	92,009
Persons who currently want a job .........................................	7,193	6,088	7,031	6,648	6,348	6,060	6,146	6,146	6,438

[Grampa Dave]

Actually, the main street represented by their Chamber of Commerce want amnesty to save their worthless butts.

With amnesty, they will have a large, disposable and cheap labor force and an increased number of very dumb buyers.

This why the CC and their members have supported the inflow of cheap labor and dumb buyers, aka illegals for decades.

[TADSLOS]

Of course, Sarah is correct, but that’s the plan. The main street bourgeoisie must be destroyed for Obama’s fundamental transformation to blossom.

[exit82]

www.senate.gov

www.house.gov

Call your reps in DC and tell them you are outraged by the breakdown in security on the Southern border.

Call their local offices if you don’t want to pay for long-distance to DC—you’ll find the numbers at the above sites.

This is an invasion, and it is a White House instigated and supported invasion and IT HAS TO STOP!

Make the call!

If these kids, mom and teens can get through, so can the drugs and terrorists.

And almost 13 years after 9/11/2001 it is wholly unacceptable.

[stockpirate]

She should have run for POTUS, she won’t run in 2016 IMHO....

[SMARTY]

Every OTHER country of the face of this earth has a natural and allowable pride and in some cases, a pathologically rabid sensitivity to the significance of their own culture...

But for some reason, with American culture there, seems to be a concerted and malicious effort to displace or destroy OURS!!

Many people even HERE want to mock and invalidate what OUR culture is, and it’s being done with the eager assistance and support of the MSM and the government.

[ConservingFreedom]

the main street represented by their Chamber of Commerce want amnesty

Of course, that's not who Palin meant by "Main Street" - maybe we need another street name to refer to working stiffs, neither Wall nor Main. (I'd like Evergreen Terrace, but I'm not sure it's a widely enough known reference.)

[DoughtyOne]

Anything other than returning these people to their nation of origin will decimate our nation.

20-35 million new voters, 70% or more of which will vote for the Democrats..., game over.

Registering them legalizes them. Letting them remain in place exposes our nation to a future mass citizenship run.

And then there’s chain immigration following that.

If our elected leaders and those who want to lead, can’t begin to be open and address this situation for what it is, all the happy talk will be for nothing. We will be doomed to watch our nation go under.

Start talking about repatriation. That’s the only solution. Until folks have the gumption to speak plainly in public, I don’t really care what they have to say.

[Zenjitsuman]

We have a generation of kids who grew up with computers became geeks, and won’t be able to make their hobby their career because the Bill Gates, and other computer industry leaders prefer to hire foreign visa programmers at cut rate wages than give our American kids jobs.

That is why half of this years college graduates won’t find a job after getting a BS degree.

I feel this is unpatriotic to shaft our kids and suck the blood and life out of our country to make more profit.

Isn’t Gates At Al rich enough to hire Americans. He gives
his money away these days, why doesn’t he put American kids thru his MCE program?

[DoughtyOne]

I agree.

We have a multitude of unemployed talent in this nation. Nobody can convince me the people out of work are not qualified to do anything.

Some folks mistake freedom to mean you can destroy your own nation if you like. I disagree.

[Cheerio]

Anything other than returning these people to their nation of origin will decimate our nation. 20-35 million new voters, 70% or more of which will vote for the Democrats..., game over.

AND if this is allowed to transpire, the southern border is effectively erased forever.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your line of reasoning there.

I will say that up until about five years ago, I pretty much saw the lines breaking down like the graphic depicts.

Truth is, the illegal aliens have disburses across this nation.

In 2000 I picked up a copy of the Washington Post. On the front page it was heralding a 300% increase in the hispanic population in the area around Washington, D. C.

This is a national problem today. Here on Free Republic you can find articles talking about the devastation in local school systems across the nation, as they have to deal with the dynamic of children who don’t speak English, and mushroom the student population massively in a short period of time.

You can also read about the stress this puts on the health care community, in cities across our nation.

This whole nation is in trouble based on this blight.

[Bigg Red]

Bingo! I was just going to post a similar sentiment.

[KC_Lion]

Ping to Sarah's Patriotic List!

The Uniparty's Protected Lawbreakers aren't welcomed by the American People.

A Great interview by Sarah!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Wisteria Lane.’ *SMIRK*

[ConservingFreedom]

LOL!

[CatherineofAragon]

The commentators at Fox News twisted themselves into knots, trying to come up with any and every nutty reason to explain Brat’s win.....anything except the people being fed up.

[NTHockey]

She was right about DeathCare and death panels.

She was right about Putin and the Ukraine.

And she’s right with amnesty.