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(January 3, 2016 at 1:33 am)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: For the record, I will vote like hell for Bernie in the primary. If Clinton wins, though, I'll vote like hell for Hillary in the general election.
That's likely what I'll do.
I mean look at this shit. Is this a sick joke?
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries). They have even published pamphlets on how to illegally immigrate to the United States. The costs for the United States have been extraordinary: U.S. taxpayers have been asked to pick up hundreds of billions in healthcare costs, housing costs, education costs, welfare costs, etc. Indeed, the annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011. The effects on jobseekers have also been disastrous, and black Americans have been particularly harmed.
The impact in terms of crime has been tragic. In recent weeks, the headlines have been covered with cases of criminals who crossed our border illegally only to go on to commit horrific crimes against Americans. Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old woman’s home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the “blood trail” leads straight to Washington.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
Meanwhile, Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
In short, the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices.
Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options]. We will not be taken advantage of anymore.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
(January 2, 2016 at 11:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "We?"
You were a Brit at the time.
Romney destroyed himself with his 47% comment and the evangelicals did not trust a mormon. (Can't say I blame them for that!)
Besides, conservative horseshit aside, Obama had done a pretty good job cleaning up Bush's mess.
At the time yes, now I live here.
How could Romney have destroyed himself with that comment? I thought your whole point was that the billionaires choose the President? Why would a comment that didn't affect them make them pick Obama over Romney? Or could it be perhaps, that the people of this country still have a voice and voting power?
Billionaires absolutely choose the President. One just has to look at the Citizens United decision to see that. We're living in a plutocracy. It didn't matter to them if Obama or Romney won. Both of them received large sums of money from billionaires. Just look at how Obama pushes the TPP. Don't think for a second just because Romney lost the election that Billionaires still don't pick the President. Ultimately the choice is limited to those billionaires approve of in the first place.
