North Korea? Not scaring me (not yet anyway, maybe if they get some missiles that work, but not yet). Iran? Yeah, scary, definitely scary, but unlike N. Korea, they don't have bombs OR missiles (yet). What scares me is what we are allowing--nay, ENCOURAGING--to happen in our country.
You've heard the arguments, "work no American will do...hardworking, decent people...just want a better life...economy depends on them...contributing more than they take...", there's just one problem: It's all bullshit.
I could cite more examples, but Lashawn does such a nice job of linking to them, why not just link to her! I especially liked what one of her commenters said:
La Shawn:Before yesterday's Mexican election, I was "on the fence" with Bush on some issues.
NO MORE.
50% of Mexican voters supported a Castro wannabe. Are these the people we want to invite into our country with open arms? Does any sane person believe these people will vote Republican?
Who cares anyway? Isn't anyone else galled by the fact that Republicans we voted for have already cast us and our votes aside, as if we were dying or already dead and unable to vote for them ever again? As if we were going to raise our kids to be Democrats or some other voting block they wouldn't need to worry about? Isn't anyone else terrified to be led by people who've thrown in the towel on our country, our culture, our sovereignty at least 30 years prematurely? I mean, no one predicts that hispanics will make up half our population until at least 2030, and by most estimations, if things keep going as they are now, it won't be until 2050, by that time, most of these pathetic politicians will be DEAD, so what do they care who'll be voting THEN? Shouldn't they care who'll be voting in a few months?
But more importantly, if they are soooo concerned about the future, could they worry a little more about the future of the people of this country, not just their party? Are they truly so loyal to their party they care if it's in power after they're dead and gone? Does party trump country? Are their kids and grandkids not Americans, native born and here LEGALLY? Last time I checked, we still didn't allow illegals to run for office, so I sure hope so.
I must be missing something. If the Senate and the President have their way, the illegals here now, and the countless others who would come as a result of their asinine bill, won't be voting the day it passes, and as Lashawn's commenter points out, they aren't likely to vote republican! If they catch on to the notion that Republicans are not known to be the party of social welfare programs and billingual education, they aren't likely to vote GOP. Are they seriously counting on hispanic religiosity and so-called "family values" for votes? I'm pretty sure people who hoof it across a searing desert, or in the back of a stifling truck, or throuh a fetid sewer aren't more concerned with who can and cannot get an abortion than they are with who can and cannot get medicaid or a host of other government hand-outs.
I just don't get why our politicians aren't looking at the following statistics:
- Out of every 10 people in each state, how many are here illegally? You can't look at it nationally, because states with little to offer illegals or non-border states will throw it off, make it look less. Look at Colorado, for example, where 1 in 3 people are illegal aliens, then ask if the people of that state are being well served by their elected officials?
- Out of every 10 school children in each state, how many are here illegally or are anchor kids of illegals who pay no tax to pay for the education they're receiving? Taxpayers should know this number like they know their own name before they ever vote in favor of raising their own taxes on a school bond measure.
- How much of each dollar we pay in taxes goes to pay for providing healthcare to illegal aliens? How much of that ends up reflected in the cost of our own health insurance after hospitals and doctors raise their rates to cover the losses not covered by the government?
- Out of every 10 violent crimes in this country, how many are perpetrated by illegal aliens? How many cild molesters are here illegally? Estimates will do.
- How many cases of TB, measles, polio and other unseen-for-decades diseases are cropping up in urban areas with large illegal populations? Why do legal immigrants have to take elaborate physicals to come here legally, while Senators and the President seem unfazed by the potential for sickness spread by illegals?
Do I need to go on? Why aren't these questions being asked loudly, by more of us? Why aren't we demanding that our lawmakers know the answers, cold, like they know their own names? Why aren't we asking them how they'd feel if their votes didn't count as much as they maybe-votes of some future population of hispanics who may or may not even be eligible to vote, regardless of how they got here (it is still illegal to vote if you're not a citizen, isn't it?)?
We keep arguing about whether we need or don't need these people, or whether it's fair or possible to get rid of them, but what we're not doing is looking at what will happen either way! What if we do need these people, why is that? What will that do to us? I'm sure the South could have convincingly argued it "needed" the slaves, but they were made to do without them just as surely as restaurants, agribusiness, hotels, lawn services, construction contractors and the like could be. It was hard on the South, but they survived, and so could these businesses, and so could the rest of us. Not doing something because it's "hard" will only leave you with other "hard" problems to solve, probably harder ones. Why are we ignoring this?
Posted by insomnomaniac at July 6, 2006 4:04 PM | TrackBack