U.S. departing the First World?

Washington Times ^ | Thursday, January 23, 2003 | Paul Craig Roberts

[JohnHuang2]

America has turned its back on Americans. Even illegal aliens count higher with the American government than native-born, taxpaying, loyal U.S. citizens, who are regarded by their government as nothing but resources to be exploited.

American taxpayers now are expected to shoulder the burden of paying for university educations for illegal aliens. When U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, said recently that illegal aliens should be deported, not given in-state tuition, Karl Rove, the Power Behind the Bush, told Mr. Tancredo never again to darken the steps of the White House.

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, January 23, 2003

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[Cindy]

"IMMIGRATION ISSUES"

[RLK]

When U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, said recently that illegal aliens should be deported, not given in-state tuition, Karl Rove, the Power Behind the Bush, told Mr. Tancredo never again to darken the steps of the White House.

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During 2004 I will also be telling Rove and Bush never to darken the steps of the White House again.

[Howlin]

No kidding? You should have said something sooner. We really were counting on your vote.

Really we were.

Honest.

[Mortimer Snavely]

"Outsourcing to lower-wage countries can be a solution for individual companies. But when all U.S. companies outsource, the implication is a population working for Wal-Mart selling foreign-made goods.

     Will America be a Third World country in 20 years?"

Barring intervention of the Almighty, with the associated suspension of the Laws of Physics He wrote, the answer can only be yes.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Y'know, I am so comforted by the fact that Gore didn't win. Just think, had he won, we'd have a porous border, we'd be sending our critical industries to Red China, we'd declare to the world that the Red Chinese would be our strategic partners for peace, and the President of the United States of America would be celebrating the end of Ramadan with Islamist nutballs. I am so comforted by the current President's strong, unambiguous confrontation of all these threats to the USA. Really, I am.

[Howlin]

Is that a macro you all share? Because if it isn't, you need some new material.

[Dosa26]

Will America be a Third World country in 20 years?

No. "Barring intervention by The Almighty," we will at Least be 2nd world. I do agree we live in interesting times and they are a-changin' (in my lifetime anyways, I'm 28 today)

[Mortimer Snavely]

You have developed what George Orwell called “protective stupidity,” the ability to stop any controversial idea before it becomes fully articulated. Logical fallacies are not perceived, analogies are not grasped, the most basic protests against the Party are misunderstood, or ideally, produce boredom. You think only “happy thoughts” about the President. He has become truth embodied. All information is processed in this context, and whatever thought takes place is regulated in this context.

[Mortimer Snavely]

"we will at Least be 2nd world."

My heart is all a-pitter-patter in anticipation.

[Howlin]

You have developed what George Orwell called “protective stupidity,”

I love it when you guys HAVE to have us be stupid. We have to be stupid in order for your life to make sense, don't we? Because if we're NOT stupid, then you're lost.

What does that feel like, living your life thinking you, alone, and of all people, know what's right about everything and everyone, and that anybody who doesn't see things the way you do is, in fact, stupid and beneath you? I cannot imagine what a miserable life you must lead, having to put up with the rest of us misinformed and downright idiotic people in the way of you ruling the world. Pesky, ain't we?

Now, I'm only asking what it FEELS like, not what it LOOKS like.

It looks like a condescending pompous ass from the "stupid seats," but you probably have a different "take" on it, being so smart and all.

Whatever I am, I'm not a hater; and for the very fact that you and I don't see eye to eye on anything, I thank God every single night.

[Southack]

"Y'know, I am so comforted by the fact that Gore didn't win. Just think, had he won, we'd..."

... still be chained and bound by the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty into NOT protecting the U.S. from at least one form of nuclear attack.

We'd be implementing the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, thus driving away even MORE jobs.

We'd be signatories to the International Criminal Court, thus subjecting our soldiers who went into Afghanistan and who are about to go into Iraq to the judicial whims of the French, Germans, and Belgiums.

NATO wouldn't be enlarged.

Russia wouldn't have signed the largest nuclear arms reduction treaty in the history of the world with us.

Foreign "family planning" money would still be being paid to 3rd world countries.

We wouldn't have had one tax cut and we wouldn't be thinking about passing another (and lower taxes makes our workers more productive and more competitive worldwide).

We'd be implementing Clinton's CO2 regulations, further raising the cost of doing business in America, which would be making us LESS competitive.

The liberal American Bar Association would still be "vetting" every single federal judge candidate for Congress.

No one would be talking about drilling for oil in the ANWR (which would give us jobs and domestic oil if it happens).

No one would have placed tarriffs on imported steel, either.

That's your world. That's what we would have been looking at if Gore had won.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Truth is not the product of social consensus. Go tell it to the lemmings, and howl all the way down.

[Howlin]

They are macros, aren't they?

[RLK]

for the very fact that you and I don't see eye to eye on anything, I thank God every single night.

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The feeling is mutual from my point of view. You seem convinced that not living in denial is a form of hatred

[Mortimer Snavely]

All that's slag, ultimately. These things are the froth in a glass of beer. The real draft beverage is a brew of the destruction of our economy, the export of all US productive forces to Red China, the fusion of the USA with Mexico, the accomodation of Islamist psychopaths, and other things I'm too tired to type out.

I'm sorry, but there it is.

[RLK]

How do you say all that in Spanish and Chinese? At the rate we're going I'd suggest you practice.

[Mortimer Snavely]

I guess so, the current GOP leadership has provided us with so much to write about and save to disk.

[Dosa26]

My heart is all a-pitter-patter in anticipation.

If I may be so bold...There'in lies your problem. We but swim through time, unless we are the ultimate decision-makers of times (Bush et. al.) We are best off anticipating the best, but preparing for the worst. The second is more important for the physical, but the first is more important for the mentality.