Amnesty for All and Jobs for None
February 17, 2013
Daniel Greenfield

"Like stray dogs drawn to an open sewer, after a bitter election, the Democrats and Republicans have found themselves drawn together to illegal alien amnesty.

Amnesty has an obvious appeal for both Democrats and Republicans. It's a means of putting a lot of cheap votes on the table. The Democrats have been using immigrants as cheap votes before the invention of the telephone. And the Republicans think that they can begin scoring 39 percent of the Hispanic vote in all their elections again without considering what 11 percent of 11 million will do to their margins in even the reddest red states.

Big business has always supported cheap labor, which is why the Republican establishment has always been eager to dash away from its base to back the latest amnesty gimmick. Illegal alien amnesty however is even more damaging to the voting base for the Democrats, but that hasn't stopped the AFL-CIO and the NAACP, organizations whose members will take a severe beating from an illegal alien amnesty, from joining the amnesty parade.
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Big government needs cheap voters. Big business needs cheap labor. Big government wants big business to pick up the tab for their cheap votes through higher taxes. Big business wants cheap labor without having to pay for their social welfare benefits. After the obligatory tug of war wraps up, the tab for all those cheap votes and cheap labor will be dumped on the middle class which is being forced to fund its own destruction.

Cheap labor can lower the cost of production, but raises the cost of government. Cheap votes raise the cost of government and that raises the cost of production. Cheap labor cannot outrun the cost of cheap votes. Non-voting cheap labor is a social problem. Cheap votes are a political problem. Either way you end up with a welfare state and a police state combining into a nanny state
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Amnesty is a declaration of war by big government and big business against the American middle class. It is a statement that they have no room for the middle class in their vision of the country.

The latest amnesty deal has goodies for everyone. There will be cheap tech labor for Silicon Valley, some of which will eventually try to blow up skyscrapers, bridges and tunnels. But we'll pin a Green Card on them first and worry about the consequences later. There will be the promise of more border patrol officers, in the hopes of shutting up their labor union which has been rather vocal lately. And a guest worker program, which as any European country can tell you, is actually an emigrant program.
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Big government crafts overreaching regulations which big business fills with loopholes leaving behind a cage for small business. That describes ObamaCare and most of the regulatory state. And this is how it will go on being for the foreseeable future.

Big attracts big. Crony capitalism is a lot easier than actual capitalism. Why make bets when you can finance sure things with heaps of government money? America's new elite looks a lot like Russia or China's elite, an oligarchy that blends big government and big business, big bribes and big contracts.
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The ability to expand and sustain the middle class is what separate a failed state full of cheap labor and cheap votes from a nation. And that requires forward motion. America still has enough technical skill to create technological revolution, but lacks the infrastructure to take advantage of them. The iPhone may have come out of America, but it's built in China. Until that changes, America will not have a secure middle class.

The American worker has emerged as the collateral damage in the war between big government and big business. Amnesty for illegal aliens is the one area where both sides can agree on a truce pursuing their short term interests, at his long term expense. "

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/02/...s-for-none.html

It was wrong when Reagan did it, when GWBush pushed for it and today.

I think Reagan would advise against it. That means the Republicans of today will double down on stupid and go for it.

As that great liberal republican puke, Eric Cantor said, those illegals are more imprortant than you and your children. Illegals first came the cry from Rubio and Cantor, add 2.3 to 3 trillion dollars more debt for amnesty, but hell what difference does that make, they are more special.

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America's new elite looks a lot like Russia or China's elite, an oligarchy that blends big government and big business, big bribes and big contracts.

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After undertaking a modest study of modern day (current) China a couple of years ago, I came to the same conclusion. I'll take his word with respect to Russia, seems very plausible.


(Thanks for the Greenfield post, always great reads!)

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America's new elite looks a lot like Russia or China's elite, an oligarchy that blends big government and big business, big bribes and big contracts.

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After undertaking a modest study of modern day (current) China a couple of years ago, I came to the same conclusion. I'll take his word with respect to Russia, seems very plausible.


(Thanks for the Greenfield post, always great reads!)

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I am currently of the mind that our brave new world or NWO is the one described by Greenfield, i.e. one of crony capitalism / fascism in which you have the illusion of private ownership. In reality the use of private property is constrained by oodles of regulations and a police state put in place by an unholy alliance of large global finance and corporate.

With what little I know of Russia, yes seems very plausible. The elite there seem to be include many former KGB (like Putin).

I find it interesting that in Islam, which is one of the things is being used to destroy traditional American culture and ethics, there is a principle called Shura, i.e. leaders conducting political consultations with experts in various fields. This situation strongly resembles fascism.

(As an aside, ME expert Bernard Lewis described the motivation behind the Arab spring as elimination of corruption in the Moslem system of Shura, not a desire for Western democracy.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/....aspx?id=209770 )

Thanks, never heard of Shura, something to look into.

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Thanks, never heard of Shura, something to look into.

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