insomnomaniac

Jesus the CEO?

I've wanted to blog about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION for a while now, but this finally lit a fire under my butt to do it:

...after weeks of sitting on the sidelines, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) jumped into the immigration debate Wednesday. She declared that Republican efforts to criminalize undocumented workers and their support networks "would literally criminalize the good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself."

OK, let's just put aside for a moment that Hillary Clinton obviously doesn't have the first clue what Jesus would want or would do because she has consistently voted against laws that would ban partial-birth abortions. Far be it for me to make her mistake and presume to know what Jesus would want, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that--if forced to choose-- he'd opt for saving an innocent voiceless unborn child of a mother who would "choose" an abortion so late in pregnancy (a child mind you who could survive outside its mother's womb and be raised by someone who would want it) rather than extending a welcome hand to a person who is knowingly breaking the law of the land into which he or she is trying to sneak. Just a wild guess perhaps, but an educated one, how's that?

Instead, let's take her statement apart factually.

Who offers the most "aid" to illegal immigrants? Or, put another way, who makes it possible--indeed enticing--for them to come here illegally in the first place? Is it the odd priest who gives them bowls of free soup and a mattress to sleep on? Or is it the huge agribusiness/construction company/cleaning crew outsourcing company that recruits, hires and exploits these people? I'm gonna go with option B, how 'bout you?

It would ordinarily be odd, even bizarre, that a Democrat--the kind who wants socialized medicine, appears to abhor privatization of Social Security, and generally sneers at big business as the inherently evil puppet-masters of the Republican Party--would oppose a law that would make worker exploitation illegal. But then there's nothing "ordinary" about Hillary Clinton or the Democratic party she hopes to represent in '08.

See, she wants desperately to unite the exploiters with the true Samaritans without us noticing. She doesn't want us to question her sudden defense of those who do the most to "aid" illegal aliens because deep-down, she appreciates their work! Not only does it get her cheap fruit and veggies by the pound, it gets her campaign contributions from the exploiters and cheap votes from those they exploit.

Our job then is to call her on it, to tell her that whatever Jesus would or wouldn't do about this particular issue, he sure wouldn't obfuscate or dissemble. He sure wouldn't pretend that his church was the victim when in truth the illegal immigrants themselves often are. He sure wouldn't secretly prop-up huge corporations and greedy politicians so they could continue to exploit and manipulate poor people for personal gain.

That's the dirty little secret about illegal immigration in general--that those who say the American way of life and economy depend on it are really saying that the American way of life and economy depend upon EXPLOITATION! We depend upon a permanent underclass of underpaid workers, that's what they're saying. Whether they are right or left, white or hispanic, they are saying the exact same thing and pretending it's compassion, caring, "aid." What a crock of shit!

And even Bush--who says we can have guest workers who apply for jobs "no American wants"--is running full-tilt from the fact that there are no jobs no American wants, only WAGES no American can live on! Sadly, that's largely because it's more to a citizen's benefit to live on welfare than to earn a couple of bucks (at most) an hour, driving to work in an un-registered, un-insured beater with five other people, and going home to a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment shared with those same or five or six OTHER people. If we want to bring back the right to contract freely to the Constitutional rights enjoyed by actual American citizens, that's fine, but as long as welfare is around, don't count on Americans working for what illegals will take.

So what if Bush and the politicians couple the guest worker plan with laws requiring the payment of minimum wages to these guest workers? Not only will there suddenly be plenty of Americans who want the jobs, the employers will find new and more secretive ways to import cheap ILLEGAL labor to make up the losses to their bottom line. And if they don't, suddenly only the very rich would have weekly lawn service, new home construction would grind to a screeching halt, and food at the grocery store would cost as much as movie theater popcorn.

If, on the other hand, a guest worker plan doesn't stipulate higher wages, healthcare and OSHA reg. adherence, well then, there would be a backlash from both sides of the aisle so loud it would be deafening. Might as well call it off-shoring, the only difference would be that American taxpayers would be covering the healthcare and education costs, and sharing already strained resources with the "offshore" labor force right here within our own borders! That would be ludicrous. Where is Lou Dobbs on this point I wonder?

And if even if the politicians can get away with not paying the minimum wage to these "guest workers," if we allow them to "earn" citizenship, we'll end up with millions of new citizens (probably at least 12Mil of them in the first however-many-years the provision stipulates it would take to earn the privilege) who would suddenly command and demand higher wages, better conditions, and/or all the entitlements citizens get if they can't make their own way (welfare, medicaid, federal grants for education, etc...). Terrific. And when their children--who would be Americans mind you--grow up and can't find work, but are used to being "aided" or taken care of by the government that allowed their parents to be lured here in the first place, what we'll have is rampant unemployment and disaffection. In other words people, we'll be France.

I'm not trying to be glib here, I'm serious. France is no more "humane" than we are about immigration, believe me. They imported cheap labor to do the dirty work they didn't want to do, at a cheaper rate, and now they are paying the price. Their "guest workers" have had kids, their kids have gone to French schools, speak French even, and they don't see why they or their parents should be exploited anymore. They want what the native-French elite have always had, and they want it now, and in order to give it to them, the entire French people have to suffer a little, be taken down a peg. There just aren't enough jobs and resources to go around. And who do you think will do the dirty jobs now? That's right, a new crop of illegal immigrants and guest workers, swelling the ranks of French society even further. This is what is in store for us if we don't do something NOW.

And I haven't even touched the notion of homeland security for real in this piece either! Never mind the economic implications long-term of doing nothing, what if just one terrorist with a dirty bomb gets through on either border? What if he poisons the air and property in a major economic center for years to come with toxic radiation? Not only will our economy suffer dramatically, it will be a major blow to the environment as well! Maybe that's the tack we have to take: Save the environment, stop illegal immigration!

But what can we do with people like Hillary invoking the name of the Lord in defense of illegal immigrants and those who would "aid" them in breaking our laws? How can we overcome the greed and self-interest of so many?

Personally, I think it's going to take a 9/11-type catastrophe that clearly originates out of this problem. Perhaps it would be a dirty bomb, perhaps mass riots or a serious movement to "take back California for the Mexicans," I have no idea. I just know that most people aren't going to be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to avoid the eventual francification of this nation without suffering an even greater sacrifice forced upon us as a result of ignoring the problem for too long.

In the meantime, beware of people like Hillary. She is calling for nothing less than the continued exploitation of millions of people, in large part to fuel her own personal goal of becoming the first female President of this country. And when she ivokes the name of Jesus to do it, she is proving what a low-quality human being she really is.

Posted by insomnomaniac at March 27, 2006 7:42 PM | TrackBack