#2
Just as the Marxist imbued socialists have taken over the Donks, the liberals have taken over the Trunks. Time for creative destruction to make way for another cycle?
#4
When the Regime campaigned against Out Sourcing over seas, they just intended to bring over seas over here.
Once upon a time not too long ago in the larger cities the homeless could count on going down to the local rent-a-laborer office and get work for a day, at the end of the day some of those offices paid the homeless person for a day of labor. Those shops are long gone replaced by dozens of illegals hanging around Home Depot and Lowes willing to do the work cheaper. These people are every where A American in poverty can not get a low wage job anymore, the illegals have them.
So much for the Dems claiming to be there for the poor.
#5
It seems corporate America wants amnesty as much as the donks and are pushing the GOP toward amnesty whether Republicans want it or not. Republicans are between a rock and a hard place. Their corporate sponsors want it and their constituents don't. They can try to keep winning elections with their big campaign war chests but I'm afraid a lot of voters are going to stay home. Maybe they can keep winning for a while but eventually the demographics will go against them.
#8
Seems to me there is a fair bit of truth to what Ann is saying.
There seems to be several 'Burgers well-versed in history. Based on past history - which I'd like to remember to avoid repeating - what's the US gonna look like in 50 years? 100 years?
Not that I expect to be here then, but just for talking purposes.
Posted by: Bobby ||
01/30/2014 13:07 Comments ||
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In less than 50 years it will look like California.
If Ronaldo Maximus were alive today he couldn't get elected as a Republican Dog Catcher in Anaheim, Azusa, or Cucamonga. In 1966 he beat Governor Moonbeams dad with 57.65% of the vote.
So goes California, so goes the nation. Remember a lot of people that screwed up California have moved on to infect other states like Oregon, Nevada and Colorado.
#10
Immigration has always been a lightening rod in politics. Neither side want it resolved. It is as broken as health care and there are millions of third and fourth generation illegals. We will do the rounds of amnesty, a few generations will take part, the rest will not trust our government and stay underground. Nothing will be done to really fix it. It is in neither parties best interest to have a real fix to the problems. The facts are clear, if your brown, or an Asian woman, you can not come to America legally. This whole immigration issue needs an overhaul, not just amnesty and not tied to a wall in Arizona. It needs to be fixed for its own failure. Until then, we are just being emotional, now its tied to border security, next it will be tied to whatever the hell will derail it. Just fix it.
The Republicans are in the best position to actually do something and win out over all of this. The Mexican population here in America are 99% Catholic, they are conservative, they are not asking for welfare, not feeling entitled, and want to work for a better life. They, by their nature, are republicans.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
01/30/2014 13:31 Comments ||
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#11
Odd... my wife is brown and some whould consider her an Asian woman (Philippines) yet she was able to come her legally.
The issue being discussed is not immigation it is Amnesty pure and simple. Granting residency and citizenship to people who are the exact kind of people we do not want to welcome into our country - people who have little or no regard or respect for the law.
The immigration problem is a mess for sure. It's complicated. It makes it very difficult for those who we want to welcome (law abiding, peaceful, and productive immigrants) to immigrant. That should be takled as the immigration problem.
This (illegal aliens) is not an immigration problem - it is an ILLEGAL ALIEN and border security problem and should be addressed and called just that.
Calling it it an 'immigation reform' is done just to confuse the issue and give it a legitimacy it does not deserve.
#12
If someone wants to suggest a fix that does not involve amnesty or citizenship, ever, then I am all ears. The second you throw those items into the mix you have poisoned the well.
#14
A few things to fix the situation:
Stop the inflow. In force existing law.
Punish business for hiring non documented citizens ( folks will self deport)
Wages will rise to entice non working Americans to work but that is good.
Start a guest worker program with identification and rules similar to h1b1.
#15
but I'm afraid a lot of voters are going to stay home.
If they do stay home then we end up with some bonehead as POTUS.
I'd be willing to trade some hard-working, honest Mexican immigrants (legally here) for politicians and bureaucrats. Send the latter south of the border in a trade.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
01/30/2014 14:44 Comments ||
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I don't understand why the Republicans don't try to reform the *LEGAL* immigration system and force the Dems to either (a) vote for it or (b) go on record as voting against such a thing because it doesn't have amnesty for illegals imbedded in it.
Either way it would be ballot box gold. Intead they let the Dems lead and frame the debate and kow tow.
#18
Try getting a job as a non-resident alien [US person] in Germany, France, Austria, SZ, Japan, Iceland, or any Scandinavian country without the PROPER PERMITS and PAPERWORK.
The problem CAN be fixed, but as Pan and other have said here, no one in Washington wants it fixed. There is definitely a US State Department INS bias, and it does NOT favor Europeans or Asians of any flavor. As long as the process is cocked-up, the bias can flourish.
#19
That's probably it Pan. She was on a Fiance Visa and even then it they sat on it for 6 (long agonizing...) weeks after the interview.
And you are right - if you are young and don't have very strong ties to home - it is very hard to get even a tourist visa. Her sister was able to get one but then she's a widow, has 3 kids back in the Philippines and works in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
Yet they want to simply grant residency and citizenship to people who are in violation of federal law and have no respect for the USA or it's laws. And if you think these people will have to wait at the end-of-the-line you haven't been paying attention. Exemption after Exemption will be granted to allow them to 'cut in line'. All for 'humanitarian' reasons of course and all to 'buy votes'. And I seriously doubt they will need to pass anything like what legal immigration seekers need to pass (medical exam, personal interview, etc...). How will they ever interview 30M illegal aliens never mind examine their teeth.
#20
KiloBravo just got back from a Doc Appointment. she met a new Medical Assistant from Peru who had originally come here illegally but married, got her Green Card and eventually Citizenship.
Then she brought in her aged parents one of which has had serious eye problems requiring major surgeries. The other has to have Gall Bladder surgery.
Kilobravo's manicurist brought her parents from Afghanistan, the father is blind and on Dialysis and the mother slipped into a Comma last year and it was months before the children would allow her to be taken off life support.
Working in Healthcare I see this type of situation repeated over and over. The second and third wave of linked immigrants is going to bury us. Family members are not paying for this care and other goodies, you are through Medicaid, SSI, Section 8 Housing, etc.
Illegal Aliens Undocumented Demorats, there fixed that.
#21
The construction company I work for only hires guys with the proper identification, but when INS shows up, they all scatter.
I believe a serious problem is the fake IDs that allow illegals to work for honest employers. Legal of not, they work hard.
Posted by: Bobby ||
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If they do stay home then we end up with some bonehead as POTUS.
You're gonna end up with a bonehead POTUS anyway. You can forget about repealing ObamaCare. You might as well knuckle under and get a myRA too.
That's my point. Republicans won't be able to get elected anymore because the demographics will be against them. It's already happened in California. Schwarzenegger was the last Republican governor we'll ever have and he was kind of an anomaly anyway. He came in with Hollywood name recognition and riding a special election in which former Gov. Gray Davis was recalled for getting us into debt to the tune of $26 billion or so. But Arnold had a donk legislature and he couldn't do anything so we still have the debt and Moonbeam to boot. My prediction is that our next governor will be Anthonio Villaraigoso. We're screwed.
I said this a few days ago: They turned California from a red state to a blue state. By "they" I mean Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. This state has more electoral college votes than any other and it will NEVER go red again. Republicans were either complicit in this crime or they stood meekly by and said nothing.
Maybe if they reject amnesty the Republicans will still have a chance. I'm just afraid it's already too late and the Republican party is every bit as extinct as the brontosaurus.
#23
#22 If they do stay home then we end up with some bonehead as POTUS.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-01-30 19:16
...it's what they may be replaced with, if anything, that worries me. I don't know that the Tea Party is prepared to pick up whatever slack is left behind when the "Progressive Republicans" have gone on to their post-political careers. We have indeed, imho, entered interesting waters...
"Being born gives you a ticket to the Freak Show. Being born American gives you a front-row seat." - George Carlin
#24
I like the Artic title from yesterday's DRUDGEREPORT > ANN COULTER: REPUBLICANS ON SUICIDE WATCH.
GOP-Right to either be obsolete, dissolved?, or else merged into the DemoLeft come 2020-2025.
Apparently the Globie concept of OWG-NWO + Global Federal Union [NAU, TPP, TAP, etc.]+ "borderless", "anti-sovereign" America starting in 2015 = US-specific State Socialism + a Unitarian political system, at least at the former Nationalist Govt. level???
Japan-vs-China = pre-WW1?, WHILE GOP-VS-DEMS ARE ALREADY AT 1917 - or twas it post-1917 = post-Ocktober Revolution/Winter Palace???
As for illegal immigration, ...
* POLITICO > BREAKING: HOUSE GOP PROPOSES LEGALIZING [illegal] IMMIGRANTS, on condition that the Borders are secure.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Restoring Liberty] BOEHNER WORKING WID OBAMA TO AMBUSH HOUSE REPUBLICANS ON BLOOMBERG-BACKED IMMIGRATION CHANGES [ you know, GUNS = GUN CONROL].
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