Posted on 05/21/2006 5:59:08 PM PDT by quidnunc
"Millions" of new workers gettin' the Earned Income Tax Credit are not going to save SS or MediCare. They were Ponzi schemes from the beginning and now the bottom falls out.
And, if Calderon wins, we're gonna need that wall on the southern border to keep out a huge wave of economic refugees.
President Bush needs to get his priorities straight.
He's deliberately stood aside and allowed the House of Lords and the leftist media to set the agenda....an agenda which is taking our nation right down the tubes.
Leni
Amen! While I love President Bush and his stance on most issues, I detest the fact a crimmigrat has less government interference getting into this country than I do taking a flight for business (which by the way I no longer do because of the TSA Vs. the 4th Amendment).
If crimmigrants can be rewarded with citizenship and the right to vote (see note below) what reward should a US Citizen get when they break the law?
NOTE: The ONLY reason for not making illegal entry to the USA a felony is because then they could not vote. We have been sold out by both parties. I do not believe for one minute anything I hear from the House or Senate. It is all about votes, votes, votes. He, who will bend us over far enough, expects to get the crimmigrant vote.
Perfect. Let them filibuster! Use their own treachery against them in future elections. How better to defeat a liberal than to show how they refused to do one of the few things the Feds mandated to do under our former Constitution. Bring on the filibuster! If we are going to lose by giving up or by filibuster then filibuster is a beautiful option.
You've got that right derSchurfer! Adding more people to a ponzi scheme simply makes the pyramid more unstable.
He is legally entitled to it and his application is granted automatically. That's under current statutory law. Whether the Constitution requires that result is a separate question.
Ahhh, yes - a pyramid scheme is only profitable for the top level, and only as long as new layers are brought in to the bottom row. In lieu of actually fixing social security (hint: privatize it) and the Medicare system, the author proposes that the ponzi/pyramid scheme continue. Typical liberal, always wanting to gain wealth by stealing someone else's money.
" Create enough legal avenues for employment-sponsored immigration so we can wean employers off illegal immigrant labor; this may include new visa like temp worker visa "
"Thats what President Bush had in mind when he suggested a guset worker program but some of the so called conservatives attacked him over his plan then because of their opposition to such a temporary visa program. It is difficult to please some on the hard side of this immigration issue."
He was attacked in 2004 when this came out by some who thought it was a stealth form of amnesty. I defended Bush then, saying, no it was not. It's 2 separate things.
However, the way the Senate bill is written, they've added a special visa for illegal immigrants that *is* amnesty/legalization. The two concepts have unfortunately been tied together and the critics thinking it was stealth amnesty can be justified in their suspicions.
... they also madethe 'temporary work' visa be anything but; you can file for the green card the next day after getting the 'temporary work' visa.
This kind of bait-and-switch only makes the issue more confusing and the real middle-ground solutions harder to achieve.
What I specifically favor would be:
- 3 employer visa categories
- skilled (H1B, as it is today),
- unskilled (akin to current Senate version, where you can convert to LPR over time )
- temporary (use sen Hutchison proposal, work max of 10 months/year, not able to convert to LPR)
- also, have a 4th perhaps of 'highly skilled/important'
for the 'best and the brightest' type people who want to immigrate, such as professors, PhDs, etc.
= to compensate for increase employer based immigration,
reduce the family immigration quotas, end adult sibling immigration, eliminate the diversity quota, etc. basically end chain migration. Ending the birthright citizenship would help there too.
and ...
... NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
The interpretation of those words is the key. Since illegal aliens are Mexico's citizens, my interpretation is that they are NOT subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
What is so sad for a Prez I love, is that he is so blind as are the Senate Gopers on the fact that even in Pub primaries,the issue seems to be illegal immigration and many incumbants are being pushed to run-offs. That should tell the WH something but it appears so far, it does not.
"Conservatives can't elect national candidates without attracting a sizable percentage of the moderates..."
Oddly enough, Republicans can't get elected without attracting a certain amount of their conservative base...."
That axe swings both ways.
"We must scrap the sovereignty of our nation in order to keep Socialist Security solvent.
You nailed it.
Why? Dubya works hard to keep us from being conquered by a bunch of third world jihadists, but allows us to be taken over by a bunch 3rd world invaders from mexico.
Precisely so.
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