Since the Republican election “landslide” of 2010 it has never been clearer that I am neither a Democrat nor Republican.
Nor a Libertarian, socialist, communist, Green Party or Red Hat member, Freemason, Symbionese Liberation Army soldier or Mousketeer.
But I digress.
I have written before about the concept of absolute value. In mathematical terms, the absolute value of a real number is the numerical value of the number regardless of its sign. And in sign, I mean + or – not Sagittarius or Aries.
The Republicans and Democrats are both, in absolute value terms, idiots. One is blue, one is red. One is a donkey and one is an elephant. But take away the husk, that hard candy coating, and what do you have? Idiots. Simple. Or at the risk of being redundant, simple idiots.
Both parties, most of the major news outlets and I dare say most of you, dear reader(s) have thrown away careful thought and relied on how “our team” positions themselves to determine what we think.
I say this after seeing another piece of half-way decent legislation suppressed by a group of sheep-like politicians. The Dream Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act) would offer legal status to students who came to the United States illegally before they turned 16 and have lived here for more than five years. To gain legal status they would need to complete high school, and then two years of college or military service. Once implemented the act would legalize about 65,000 students a year.
65,000 students a year! And for that the Republicans are stonewalling the effort to get this passed.
Our birth rate is barely, just barely, keeping up with the mortality rate. We have taken direct actions to limit immigration by ridiculously low quotas and making the process incredibly lengthy and expensive. We have taken indirect action to limit immigration by ignoring constitutional rights, doubling our unemployment rate through fiscal mismanagement and creating an environment that discourages entrepreneurial risks, making this a less fun place to live.
So instead, let’s do everything we can to become a European-like land of inbred knuckleheads with carpel tunnel syndrome that is a result of our hands constantly being outstretched for a handout.
How can we forget what made this country as great as it is/was (you select)? We had people who were hard working appreciative risk takers come to this country to establish a new base of roots. We had a bunch of people from different places come to our country and have to work hard to overcome the local biases and prejudices that all of them faced. And this created character. And now we have the ability to have a group of 65000 select themselves every year. These will be people who have lived here at least 5 years and completed either 2 years of college or military service. I don’t know about you but I want more people like that I don’t give a damn where they come from.
Getting back to the idiots, please don’t take my word for it. Allow the cretins to speak for themselves.
Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California said: “It is not being cold-hearted to acknowledge that every dollar spent on illegal immigrants is one dollar less that’s spent on our own children, our own senior citizens and for all those who entered this society who played by the rules, who paid their taxes and expect their government to watch out for their needs before it bestows privileges and scarce resources on illegals.”
Dana must have graduated from the Zero Sum Game School of Malthusian Economics.
Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Republican from Georgia, said the act “exploits our broken system. … It opens the door to criminal aliens.”
Yep…all those criminal aliens that went to two years of college. Oh yeah, I forgot about those felons that completed military service.
Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, said the act would take jobs away from American citizens, especially legal minorities struggling for work.
Based on Lamar and Dana’s thinking, I bet they would support abortion rights. That would limit the population increase and reduce the amount of people we have to “support” with jobs. Oh wait, they are Republicans. Let me check my scorecard. Right, they’re against that one.
If our immigration policy was more enlightened we would be a better country with a larger population of creative people that wanted to work hard. I am certain of this.
Immigrants remain a source of economic and social vitality for the United States today as they have throughout our history. We sometimes forget where we came from or where our fathers and father’s fathers came from. The DREAM ACT is just a small step in the right direction. I hope we can look beyond the rhetoric of small thinking people, disregard the “team” we are on, and get this legislation approved. But I fear that the only way this will happen is if the Democrats trade something of equal or higher political value. Perhaps I am a graduate of the Zero Sum Game College.
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