Saturday, March 30, 2013
The Consequences of Amnesty: Vichy Republicans
Mike Scruggs
President Obama wants a “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill
including amnesty for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants and
a huge new guest-worker program ready to move in the Senate by the week
of April 8. Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, has warned over the objections of Republican Senator Jeff
Sessions and five Republican colleagues on the committee that he intends
“to proceed to comprehensive immigration reform with all deliberate
speed.” When politicians want to run “comprehensive reform” legislation
through Congress with “all deliberate speed” it means that powerful
special interests want to jam some questionable special interest legislation
down the people’s throats before they can figure out what is being
done to them. It is a form of deception and corruption that usually
results in irreparable comprehensive damage to the nation for the benefit
of special interests.
Senator Sessions and
his colleagues are objecting because they believe that the legislation
under construction deserves close scrutiny. Past amnesties and guest-worker
programs were good for special interests but extremely damaging to American
workers, taxpayers, many communities, and the rule of law. They have
also been good for leftist issues and the Democrat Party and bad for
conservative issues and Republicans.
Amnesty always begets
more illegal immigration and more uncontrolled legal immigration. A
rule of thumb based on the 1986 amnesty is that 11 million amnesties
will generate 22 to 33 million new illegal immigrants within 10 to 20
years. That would jump our annual net fiscal costs for illegal alien
(undocumented Democrat) maintenance from over $100 billion per year
estimated by fairus.org to between $200 billion and $300 billion per
year.
We now have an enormous
$16 trillion dollar debt and trillion dollar fiscal deficits every year.
The Heritage Foundation estimates that a new amnesty would cost the
taxpayers over $2.5 trillion in the next ten years in increased Medicare
and Social Security costs ALONE. Adding some of the incremental fiscal
costs cited by fairus.org, a minimal cost of amnesty would be $3.0 trillion.
Adding $3.0 trillion to an already staggering $16 national debt is stupid,
insane, and CORRUPT.
Who will gain? Democrats
will gain millions of new voters. More than 75 percent of the new legal
residents on a path to the voting booth will vote Democrat—not because
they are grateful for amnesty, but because they favor big government,
and big social-welfare and healthcare programs by more than 75 percent.
That should put their Republican opposition out of business in half
a decade or less. It is easily predictable that if an amnesty passes,
the Republicans will never win another national election unless they
drop all principles. They will slowly lose most currently Red States,
and Congressional Districts. Those businesses that use cheap illegal
labor and cheap guest-worker labor will continue to reap huge profits.
Who will lose? American workers, taxpayers, and the adherents of Constitutional
government and Judeo-Christian culture. More broadly, greed and
importing a new and more Democrat electorate will triumph over a once
great Republic.
Senator Sessions has
bravely pointed out that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the largest
lobbyist for cheap foreign labor:
“The Chamber’s primary goal has never been to establish a lawful
immigration system and secure our borders, but to get as much cheap
labor as possible—regardless of how it impacts American workers, legal
immigrants, and taxpayers in general.”
The political costs
of amnesty to conservatives are much broader than most people realize.
Once a new, leftist electorate dominates conservative voices, no conservative
issue will be safe, Constitutional or not, and in a few years, few will
be left. How long will the Second Amendment last when the electorate,
Congress, and Federal Courts are stacked against it? Federally
dictated political correctness will effectively replace a dead Constitution.
There are already eight
million illegal immigrants working in the U.S. Yet there are 20 million
Americans who want a full time job and cannot find one. Yet almost all
the media sympathy is lavished on illegal immigrants who enter and stay
in the U.S. by identity theft and document fraud. You cannot be for
American jobs and amnesty or for American jobs and huge guest-worker
programs. The propaganda that illegal immigrants are only doing “jobs
Americans won’t do” has been discredited by competent research.
Amnesties and guest-worker
programs flood the job market with cheap labor and drive American wages
down. Some labor economics studies have shown that for every 100 foreign
workers hired, 60 American workers will be displaced.
The principal legislative
package of amnesty and guest-worker programs is the Senate Gang-of-Eight
proposal, very similar to Obama’s own proposal. Amazingly, four of
the eight sponsors are Republicans: McCain, Graham, Flake and Rubio.
I prefer to call them the Vichy Republicans because they are operating
against their party’s best interests and against the best interests
of the American people. Amnesty is essentially Republican Party suicide,
and the Democrat friendly press is trying to stampede Republicans into
voting for quick extinction.
Several Center
for Immigration Studies academic research articles over the last 10
years have consistently indicated that Republicans CANNOT win Latino
votes by voting for amnesty and other liberal immigration policies.
What will happen is this: (1) Amnesty will bring NO net Hispanic votes
to the GOP. (2) Millions of newly amnestied voters will vote 75 percent
Democrat because 75 percent of them are for big government social-welfare
programs. (3) At least another 10 percent of conservative voters will
stay at home. This would be far greater if voters knew immigration issues
and how candidates stood on them, and if voters developed some discernment
in distinguishing between truth and double-talk.
Republicans need to
get some backbone or they are going to be destroyed by pro-amnesty political
advisors and a media that is trying to stampede them into a suicidal
breach of principles.
I Corinthians 14:8: “For
if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who shall get
ready for battle?
Car porn
Via lord_k
Austro Daimler Bergmeister by Christoph3D , on Flickr
It traces its sporting heritage to early Austro Daimler race cars
designed by Ferdinand Porsche and the hill-climbing champions of 1928,
1929 and 1930 driven by Hans Stuck.
Though the engine was not designed by Porsche - who moved to Daimler in
the early 1920s, the engine incorporated several of Porsche's designs. Examples include the aluminum block and the overhead camshaft which is gear-driven.
The coachwork for this car was done by Armbruster. This vehicle was owned and exhibited by Austro Daimler at many European Concours d'Elgance.
Household income tumbles during the Obama “recovery”
The New York Times delivers some news so grim that it had to cook the headline to hide it: “Median Household Income Down 7.3% Since Start of Recession.”
Well, yes, but as the Times reluctantly admits in the very last paragraph of the story, 5.6 percent of that decline has occurred since the Obama “recovery” began. And median annual household income just fell by 1.1 percent in a single month – February 2013 – after the Obama “recovery” has supposedly been in progress for years. That’s after $6 trillion in deficit spending to “stimulate” the economy, supposedly for the benefit of the average household.
What’s behind this decline in household income, which has become so drastically pronounced throughout the Obama era?
More @ Human Events
White House Scrubs First Daughters Ski Trip Report
A local news affiliate in Idaho reported that the First Daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, are on a Spring Break ski trip in Sun Valley, Idaho. The story quickly spread across the Internet when picked up by the highly trafficked Drudge Report website.
But hours later, the story disappeared from the KMVT website without an update or correction. Breitbart News confirmed that the White House requested that the post be removed.
More @ Breitbart
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The Obama administration sparked outrage when it announced on Monday that it was withholding $110 million mineral royalty payments that are owed to states and counties due to the sequestration.“Instead of cutting these critical payments to the state, why aren’t we cutting the President’s golf outings or luxurious government conferences?"
“The Budget
Control Act of 2011, passed by Congress, mandates across-the-board,
automatic 5.1 percent sequester reductions,” said Office of Natural
Resources Revenue spokesman Patrick Etchart. “By law, revenue payments
to states are not exempt from the sequester. Cumulatively, approximately
$110 million will be withheld from states and counties where energy
production occurs on federal lands during the remainder of the current
fiscal year.”Western states will feel the brunt of the cuts in royalty payments — 99.3 percent of it, according to the Congressional Western Caucus. This is money that goes towards financing projects such as K-12 education, highways, community colleges
, and flood protection.
More @ The DC
Paul Rips Obama, Bloomberg, Hollywood Stars Over Gun Contro
VERBATIM
President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and many Hollywood stars are being hypocritical in calling for stricter gun control while they are protected with armed bodyguards, says Sen. Rand Paul.
“I don’t begrudge any famous person like Mayor Bloomberg or the president or the president’s family for having protection,” Paul told Fox News on Thursday.
“I think they all should,” the Republican senator from Kentucky said. “There are enough crazy people out there who would attack on the right or the left. But I think when you are being protected by people who have weapons, by responsible people, I can’t see why you would be opposed to that for other people.”
As for Hollywood, “Many rich Hollywood celebrities have armed guards with them at all times,” Paul points outs.
“And many regular people who live in a poor neighborhood, who have a business in a poor neighborhood and a neighborhood that may have higher crime, those people have to suffer the vicissitudes of violent crime without protection sometimes, because of gun control laws.”
Paul’s conclusion: “Yes, I think there is a certain amount of hypocrisy.”
© 2013 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
State grants Secret Service vast new powers
A bill is heading to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk that Republican lawmakers say would give members of the Secret Service broad arrest powers in the state and could provide a framework for federal agents eventually to enforce gun restrictions.
“This is absolutely insane,” Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, said. “In theory if a Secret Service agent is in a county where the sheriff has refused to enforce some of the recent unenforceable gun laws, the agent could arrest an individual if he believes the law has been broken.”
In Colorado, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and many other county sheriffs “won’t bother” with several laws poised to go into effect in Colorado because they would be impossible to enforce.
Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion
Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.
Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives a failed abortion should be left up to the woman seeking an abortion and her abortion doctor.
"So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief," said Rep. Jim Boyd. "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”
"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician," said Planned Parenthood lobbyist Snow.
Rep. Daniel Davis then asked Snow, "What happens in a situation where a baby is alive, breathing on a table, moving. What do your physicians do at that point?”
"I do not have that information," Snow replied. "I am not a physician, I am not an abortion provider. So I do not have that information.”
Rep. Jose Oliva followed up, asking the Planned Parenthood official, "You stated that a baby born alive on a table as a result of a botched abortion that that decision should be left to the doctor and the family. Is that what you’re saying?”
Again, Snow replied, “That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.”
“I think that at that point the patient would be the child struggling on the table, wouldn’t you agree?” asked Oliva.
More @ TWS
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