In a column (or several) over the past couple of weeks, I’ve pointed out that liberal, soft-headed thinking, seems to be running amuck on the immigration problem and the U.S.’ inability to security its own border while sending actual military forces to deal with Iraq’s border issues.
In the interest of open discussion, this reader email is very much worth reading:
“You made one good point in your rant about immigration issues today, but you directed your anger at the wrong parties, IMO.
Your good point was that the reason we have a problem is that there is a long-term successful business model rewarding those who control the situation, and a short-term successful business model that is taking advantage of a window of opportunity.
The passage of the ACA comes to mind as an example that is playing out for all to see. The long-term business model is the insurance companies, hospitals, drug companies, etc. making sure every dollar flows through them for a cut. As I found out when I paid over three times as much as the insurance company price for a colonoscopy, and over double for prescriptions, the model was already at work for those with means to pay (forcing us to go through the insurance company), it wasn’t working for those without insurance.
Solution? Force everyone to go through the middleman, and have the government pay shortfalls for those who can’t afford it. That’s the long-term model. The short-term opportunity arose when a three-year window was put in place before low-price/low benefit policies weren’t allowed. More than 5 million Americans were suckered into plans like that first Fox-ballyhooed “victim” got her cancellation notice — she paid $672 per year for a policy that allowed exactly two doctor visits per year, and a maximum of $100 in coverage for ER or major medical. In other words, there was no way in the world she would ever collect even half her premiums back in benefits. That policy didn’t exist before the law, so that’s why it wasn’t grandfathered. 5 million suckers times $500 profit times 3 years is a windfall profit of $7.5 billion, by the way.
Moving on to immigration, the long-term model has to be the “fault” of those who maintain the conditions.
Well, who has been hard at work to make sure that legal immigration takes a minimum of ten years (if you’re from “good” northern European countries) and more than 20 years if you come from one of those places with brown-skinned people? Hint: it isn’t liberals or Democrats. Every single time even pathetic attempts to make legal immigration viable (or god forbid, even attractive) come into the political arena, the fired up group who stop it cold and punish anyone who even says they’ll consider it is?
Look no father than the Tea Party wing of the GOP, making sure they’ll punish anyone who even talks about solving the problem. And what argument do they get you and others to parrot? The argument that an impossible goal must be met before anything else can be discussed.
Well, right about here, I have to inject my unwelcome view: The laws on immigration revolved not around Tea Party membership agendas, but set up the specific categories to become US citizens, based on needs.
I’m sure you’ve read the Center for Immigration Studies report that shows that all employment growth since 2000 has gone to immigrants while American born job seekers are competing with hoards of immigrants such as the H1b (corporate slavery at its finest) crowd.
There are mainly five reasons why people are allowed to move into this country (This NBC-Latino summary is pretty good) but I challenge the reason to present discriminatory laws which supports this discrimination based on ethnicity which is implied. THAT is typical of the liberalista clouding of issues and that doesn’t fly.
The Eastern Establishment’s mind-control program on immigration is in full-swing. You can see it when Nancy Pelosi and the Political Correctness Police start tainting the word “alien.” The ways you control people’s thinking is by controlling the language of thought. As soon as alien is off the board, then people will lose that much more mental acuity, and that, my friend is what changes the agenda: Control the words first, and then it comes naturally that soft-headed thinking (and open borders) will follow.
I can only hope that people remember that Obamanistas vowing to scrub the word alien flies in the face of concepts long embodied in American law. See U.S. Code § 1182 – Inadmissible alien, for example…
This is lingo-jacking: Limit the language, limit the discussion. If pro-immigration forces don’t like other words (like wetback and so forth), the answer might be to stop the incidents including the jet ski border-running just this week, from occurring. And that example, as you can see in the video, is all about what? Money!