Posted by
arandomguy on Monday, June 25, 2007 3:48:06 PM
Well, I haven't updated this blog much lately, because I've had a lot of business in my life to deal with. That said, I HAVE been able to keep up with the news - just not to actually find the time to blog about it.
This immigration bill, I do not need to explain to my readers, is an abomination. Despite what some Democrats, and a few Republicans say, the bill is an amnesty bill, because it gives lawbreakers benefits before it punishes them for being lawbreakers. Furthermore, it does nothing to beef up border security, which is the real, and far more immediate concern. We can handle the 12 million or so who are already here sometime in the future - they're not going anywhere (that indeed, seems to be the source of the whole problem).
What is important, is that we beef up border security, so that jihadists cannot come across the border. We must also make sure that we do not reward lawbreaking, and it is essential that we define the type of worker we want coming across the border. Is it necessary to have another 1,000,000 unskilled laborers who barely speak English? No! We're having enough trouble as it is - we need people who have the skills necessary to do the jobs we need done. Unskilled people will eat up taxpayer welfare money, etc.
As Pat Buchanan pointed out over the weekend, in Washington D.C. the average illegal takes 12,000 in government welfare (through various programs, welfare, public education, etc). He also pointed out that they pay nowhere near 12,000 in taxes - so they really are taking our money, and that I think is one of the reasons so many people are outraged.
What upsets me the most, is the betrayal of the Conservative base of the Republican party, by some of it's top leaders. John McCain, a man who has twice wanted to become the Republican Party's presidential candidate, has completely sold out much of its base - something near 85% of Republican's despise this bill (as they very well should - it's an abomination).
Not only that, but if these congressional leaders are trying to play moderate, they are failing miserably - something near 55% of Democrats hate this bill as well. The fact is, half the country is Republican, the other half Democrat (roughly). 55% of 50% the total population (that's roughly 27.5% of the total US Population) hates this bill. 85% of 50% of this population (42.5%) hate this bill.
That's 70% of the American population that hates this bill. Democrats in particular like to talk about mandates - and frequently misunderstand precisely what a mandate is. A 51-49 majority in the Senate, is NOT a majority. Neither is their slim - but slightly larger - majority in the House. Small differences - in most cases, well within normal scientific margins of error - do not constitute mandates.
70% of the American population - that's higher than any Presidental Popular Vote total in American history (Johnson and Nixon were the highest, both well above 68%) - oppose this bill. Congressional leaders need to realize that the American people, on a largely bi-partisan level (since Senators like to talk about this sort of thing) oppose this bill, and that it needs to be dumped.
Unfortunately, they haven't yet gotten the message, because according to reports, they are trying one more time to revive this thing. The leaders of both the House and the Senate - GOP and Democrat - need to understand that this bill WILL NOT pass. And if it does, then the backlash on these clowns and troglodytes will be immense in 2008, when 1/3 of the Senate, 100% of the House, and the presidency are on the line.
They need to get it through their thick, incompetent skulls, and stop selling out the American people.