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Time To Wake Up And Smell The Salsa
Worldnetdaily.com
04/05/06
Burt Prelutsky
Understand that George Bush and his Republican colleagues think they
can have it both ways with this so-called guest-worker program. Well,
they can't. Gussy it up any which way you like, it's still amnesty.
And like Reagan's amnesty program of '86, it will be another disaster
for America.
Either the GOP is for more and more Mexicans coming across the border
or they're not. But they should be warned that, if it's the former,
they run the very real risk of eliminating themselves as a major
political party. Even though I realize that taking a strong,
principled stand on this issue could alienate certain major business
interests and the Catholic hierarchy, I'm convinced that not doing so
will constitute political suicide.
A few years ago, I suggested that if Republican challenger Bill Simon
were to have any shot at unseating our inept governor, Gray Davis, he
had to come out forcefully against the epidemic that was bleeding
California's schools, health services and prisons, dry of much needed
funds. Simon, a man with the looks and charisma of Mortimer Snerd,
came surprisingly close, losing by a scant 4 percent. I have no doubt
he would have won if he'd taken my advice. By not daring to risk
offending the Hispanic voters, who naturally went overwhelmingly for
the Democrat anyway, Simon merely gave the state's conservatives a
good excuse to stay home on Election Day.
Any Republican who believes that turning a blind eye to the problem
will generate boundless gratitude among Mexican voters is probably the
same sort of pinhead who harbors the hope that blacks and Jews will
soon be lining up to join the party. Being as stupid as Republicans
are, perhaps it wouldn't be such a tragedy if they disappeared from
the political landscape, going the way of the dodo and other inferior
species.
We keep hearing how essential the guest-worker program is to our
financial well-being. If the ruling class really wanted to do
something substantive along those lines, there are a couple of things
that come to mind. First off, they should deport the directors of
every company that moves its factories overseas. Let these greedy pigs
go live wherever in hell they've sent the jobs of working Americans.
Or we could slap back-breaking tariffs on the goods they manufacture
in those Third World cesspools, forcing them to try to turn a profit
selling their widgets to the dollar-an-hour workers who produced them.
Finally, I, for one, am getting sick and tired of hearing how without
a never-ending stream of uneducated illegals, the entire economy of
the greatest industrialized nation in the history of the world would
soon collapse like a fallen soufflé.
Frankly, I doubt if the world has heard so much claptrap along those
lines since the plantation owners wept into their mint juleps while
contemplating the end of slavery.
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"The elite class in America is becoming a ruling class and they've made
enough money by hiring cheap illegal labor that they think they also
have some kind of a right to cheap servants to manicure their nails
and their lawn, for example."
"So this ruling class, this new ruling class of America, is expanding
a servant class in America at the expense of the middle class of
America, the blue collar of America that used to be able to punch a
time clock, buy a modest house and raise their families. ... Those
young people are cut out of this process." Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
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