With a title like this, I could make this entire post about Bush and what appears to be his genuine belief that allowing countless numbers of Mexican (and *OTM*) "migrants" (um, sir, it's a FEDERAL law that deems them "ILLEGAL ALIENS" perhaps you misplaced that memo along with the one that says "Pardon Libby NOW asshat!") into our country--legally or illegally--is a GOOD thing.
But I won't bother. Bush has been clueless on this issue from the words "So help me God" at his swearing in (both times).
No, this post is about the bizarre inconsistency of believing tht humans are 100% to blame for Global Warming, but not for our current economic ills, or the grim prognosis for the economy of the US tomorrow!
How is it that the same people who rail against corporate greed and human selfishness when it comes to energy consumption can so easily turn a blind eye (or refuse to believe) that we are in peril when the corporations in question run sweat shops, huge construction companies and agri-businesses, and the humans doing a lot of the consuming have brown skin? Ever see an illegal alien gang member driving a Prius? What about drug smugglers, are they not polluting the enviroment too, causing the erosion of topsoil by continuing to support the trade of a crop that literally rapes the Earth?
I'm baffled...When poor non-white people want to "find a better life," no one on the left questions what a "better life" looks like! They don't stop to think that for most, it means having enough money to CONSUME energy (as well as stuff) and often, their vision of a "better life" doesn't stop to consider things like eco-consciousness, never mind LAWFULNESS.
The same people who want the government to babysit us and protect us from our own excesses--prohibiting us from eating trans fats in restaurants, not wearing helmets or seatbelts or smoking (and anyone who knows me knows I take a very dim view of people who would do these things of their own volition)--are more than happy to let us KILL OURSELVES (literally and figuratively) to help illegal aliens "find a better life."
The left seems incapable of understanding the effect of these "migrants" on some of our most basic resources. Let's take healthcare for example...How many hospitals in the Southwest have had to close because they can no longer afford to care for the people who would be able to pay for their services (because so many have demanded care who can't)? How many towns have fallen prey to high crime, gangs, drugs and rampant pollution because their tax base simply can't support their population? Enviromentalists wouldn't tolerate this kind of overuse of resources if we were talking about chopping down trees in the rainforest, or pumping oil out of ANWAR, but when it's people who will make nice compliant needy little VOTERS for their side's politicians? Well then, somehow the resources they consume are renewable through the "hard work" of the potential voter himself! How convenient!
There's just one fly in that ointment: It's bullshit. If these workers were here LEGALLY, and were paying more than SALES TAXES, and weren't clogging up our already overcrowded schools, hospitals and jails--at rates that statistically far outpace their "contribution" to our bottom line, then maybe the Gorebots of this world would sound less hypocritical.
Perhaps if our wages weren't depreciated in value to the point where they are barely enough to cover the higher costs we bear to PAY FOR the "better life" for these parasites, we would be a little more motivated to "give back" to the planet.
Just a thought.
Posted by insomnomaniac at March 14, 2007 11:45 AM | TrackBack