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Sanity 102 on Sunday, November 19, 2006 7:00:20 PM
Below are some of these Bill-type spins—I’ve started with the Illegal Immigration issue because this spin is the most vitriolic and succeeded in portraying the GOP as racist and extreme.
AMNESTY—Bush’s guest worker program has a $2000 fine, plus 12 years probation. Now this may sound like “nothing” to the hard liners, but to someone in the “cheap labor” class…this is big time PENALTY. Amnesty by definition has no penalty—and is what Reagan, the blessed Conserv Icon, TRIED TO GIVE to 3 million illegals.
$2,000 + PROBATION IS A CHEAP FEE FOR AN AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP—notice the above word “tried” in capital letters…Reagan TRIED to give 3 million illegals citizenship. The fact is that most Mexicans THEN and now DO NOT want citizenship. They LOVE their homeland in the way we love ours…that is the land of their ancestors and where all their family is. They have zero interest in giving up their country…they just want to work in ours.
WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS, WE SHOULD NOT BE “REWARDING” PEOPLE WHO BREAK OUR LAWS—This is truly a naïve or plainly stupid remark. Everyday, hundreds of thousands of criminals are “rewarded” with probation and fines…because logistically, we do not have the capability of imprisoning ALL those who break our laws. Yes, we are a nation of laws, but we are also intelligent and reasonable enough to know that we have to make distinctions between felonies and misdemeanours.
BUSH IS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION—Bush is a Republican. He believes that small business is the economic backbone of America. Illegals aren’t working for big rich companies; they are the labor force for millions of mom and pop shops and farms that can’t afford the $10 to $15 per hour American laborers think they are entitled to.
THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISSUE IS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR CONSERVATIVES—If it was, then there wasn’t enough conservatives in many states to re-elect illegal immigration hard liners like Hayworth and Santorum. In states where unemployment was high…unemployment was the top issue, right, NOT illegals? duh.
THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE IS ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY AND IS NOT ABOUT RACISM—this is like Blacks claiming that affirmative action is NOT racist. And every time, I point out that National Security would demand a wall to the Liberal—and easy to cross--Northern Canadian border (which happens to be White), the argument changes to one of “culture” aka race.
JOB PROTECTION & CULTURE CHANGE—Republicans on the whole do not believe in the protection of jobs (especially not for medical professionals in this time of doctors, nurses, and technician shortages). Neither have they forgotten the immigration heritage they received from their grand parents—we are a nation of immigrants—be it Ireland, Italy, or France
IF BUSH PUSHES THRU AN AMNESTY BILL, THE GOP WILL BE HISTORY—Ah…Bush signed a bill to build the wall—and what happened? The GOP majority was history. The only collateral any group has is their vote. The illegal immigration demanders didn’t produce. In order to threaten, you have to have the capability of delivering. It’s as simple as that.