Given the fact that the congressional socialists have managed to cram their ridiculous health care legislation down the throats of the American people to the point of immanent implementation in less than one year, it might just turn out that they can do the same thing with their immigration reform/amnesty agenda before the mid-term elections come around and the American people have a chance to rid themselves of these scumbags.
While the current congressional views on immigration reform, like their views on health care reform, will be devastating to this nation if implemented, our congressional representatives appear to be less than concerned about the impact on the American people and adding benefit to our lives by actually improving this nation seems to be the last thing they want to accomplish.
The high costs that led to health care reform and the deplorable state of America’s educational system are two separate problems, but the underlying cause is common to both. The cost of health care was driven into the stratosphere by the more than 40 million illegal aliens taking advantage of federal law that required hospitals and emergency rooms to provide them with free health care despite their inability to pay. The cost of that “free” health care was passed along to the tax payers and consumers through higher medical care costs which inevitably drove up the cost of health insurance. The health care reform legislation does not address the root cause of the problem and we can expect the costs to escalate despite the reforms and we will have fewer dollars to pay those increased costs because our tax burden will increase to pay for the insurance of 40 million people who shouldn’t be in this country anyway. Simple common sense tells us that to solve a problem you must first identify the cause and then figure out how to eliminate it. You can’t rid your home of ants by poisoning the family dog but that is exactly the way our congressional representatives approached health care reform. Now that they have solved that problem they are ready to deal with immigration.
It is a futile hope to believe that the United States Congress will exercise any more intelligence when handling immigration than they demonstrated when they solved the health care problem. Despite the fact that millions of American citizens are unemployed and facing foreclosure, the representatives of both major political parties still cling to the belief that the United States need to build a larger workforce by increasing immigration and giving those who have already come here illegally amnesty for their criminal violation of American immigration laws. The simple fact is the politicians in Washington D.C. flatly refuse to see illegal aliens as a part of the immigration problem. It would be politically incorrect to identify the root cause of the problem and anyone who dared to do so would be branded a total racist.
In every election that takes place in this nation responsible American citizens face a number of alternative approaches. For any number of reasons many American voters are not inclined to actually consider the choices they make at the voting booth. They may have had a limited education. There is the possibility that they have never read the U.S. Constitution and everything they know about the formation of the American government came from elementary school text books. Quite a few will vote for the candidates of the political party that promises them the most personal gain and they will continue to vote for that party’s candidates year after year despite their failure to deliver on those promises. American voters routinely vote for the candidates they are told to vote for. If the PTA or the workplace union endorses a group of candidates, many of their members will vote for them. The political parties, every newspaper in the country, some religious groups, virtually every labor organization and ten million special interest groups annually spend millions of dollars printing up informational circulars and pamphlets advising us about who to vote for and who to vote against. Despite their reputation individualism and independence, the American people are mostly followers of the herd. They don’t want to think anymore than they have to and prefer being told what to do and what to think. Very few American voters actually research the candidates during an election by looking at their background, their voting record, the legislative endorsements they’ve made or any real relevant information about them. It is far too time consuming. We would rather vote for someone who is sure to win based on who the newspapers tell us is the most popular than vote for a certain loser we know to be more qualified and distinctly more honest. As a result of our own laziness, the United States Congress is filled with charlatans, thieves, dumbbells, tax evaders, sexual deviants and drug addicts, and most ironic of all, they are people who, like us, don’t want to think too hard about what decisions they make. Rather than doing a lot of exhausting research on the issues before them, they prefer someone tell them how to vote. It isn’t their constituents they turn to, it’s the party bosses, and we are left holding the bag and the bill to pay when the dust settles.
The United States Congress is one of the only places I can think of where an individual with a college degree in English Literature, Philosophy, Communications, Political Science, Art History, Physical Education, Women’s Studies, Poetry, General Studies, Liberal Arts, or Sociology can find extremely lucrative employment providing they also have a well-honed talent for expressing their convoluted cogitations to the general public in an articulate manner that appears to be logical and intelligent despite its lack of substance or actual meaning. If it were not for the United States Congress, parents and grandparents with tons of surplus money to finance them, and/or their families and friends connections to generous campaign contributors willing to gamble huge sums of money for the chance to own a big slice of their own Washington politician, these otherwise feculent pedestrian dregs of our nation’s appallingly expensive institutions of higher learning would be leveraging their artfully designed and very impressive looking college diplomas to compete for employment as burger flippers, trash truck drivers, dish washers and janitors. After all, anyone with access to tons of money, the IQ of an avocado, and nothing better to do for the next four years, can drink their way through the most prestigious universities this nation has to offer and come out the other end with an impressive looking diploma and the legitimate right to add a few meaningless abbreviations to the end of their illegibly scrawled signature. Those beautifully engraved (suitable for framing) diplomas do not indicate any depth of character, positive human attributes, measurable amount of intelligence, grasp of common sense, leadership skills or any other differentiating attribute indicating even a minimal difference between them and the rest of this nation’s society. The ability to maintain sobriety for a few hours, one day a week, or just long enough to barely pass the weekly tests required to achieve the minimum passing grade ultimately results in graduation, but it is no indication that the bearer of that magnificent looking diploma is any more intelligent than the average sixth grader, and anyone willing to look closely at the miscreants populating the halls of American government will discover ample substantiation for this statement of fact.
Prospective U.S. Senators and members of the House of Representatives are not required to undergo a battery of intelligence tests, they are not subject to periodic drug testing, they are not examined for mental stability, maturity, and they are not only entirely free to lie about their true intentions for seeking political office, it is a natural expectation. Three quarters of our congressional representatives couldn’t pass the most basic civil service exam. If these individuals applied for landscaping maintenance positions with any American city the majority of them would be rejected after failing the written exam, most of them couldn’t pass the psychological tests required to be a police officer, and many couldn’t even pass the piss test required to work at a Burger King. Despite this, they are elected to high political offices in Washington D.C. and given the authority and responsibility to determine what we, the American people can and cannot do, who will and will not sit on the bench in the Supreme Court, how much of our hard-earned income we are allowed to keep and which gaggle of lead-assed social malcontents will receive the money that is taken away from us. This is why the United States government is populated by people who have never owned, operated or even worked for a private business and yet they are entrusted with the authority to determine how U.S, businesses should operate, this is why there are individuals who have never served in the U.S. Military determining American military strategy and rules of engagement for combat situations they can’t even begin to imagine, and characters who have never even balanced their own checkbook determining economic policies that will affect every man woman and child in this nation for decades to come. Regardless of the abysmal performance of these well established simple-minded twits the American people continue to either keep them in office or replace them with even more dim-witted and witless imbeciles in every single election. Is there anybody out there in the real world that sees even the slightest problem with the continuation of this manner of selecting our elected representatives?
Has it occurred to anyone that the political endorsements made by the PTA, the AARP, the millions of special interest groups out there, our local union leaders, and every single newspaper on the planet might be compiled by individuals who are attempting to fulfill their own personal goals at the expense of the American people? As a former high-ranking officer in a major Southern California labor union, I have sat in stunned silence while the rank and file members of the local were instructed to vote for candidates and local initiatives decidedly not in their best interests. I have attended countless executive board meetings where disbursements from the local’s treasury were authorized to support the political campaigns of candidates who, once elected, immediately turned on the middle-class workers by raising their taxes and attacking the companies those workers depended on. Throughout my twenty-four year affiliation with that organization, from my first day of employment to the date that I became fed up with the lies and became the most outspoken critical scab that group has ever experienced, not one single member ever managed to connect the dots between their financial suffering, the decimation of their once lucrative benefits, the never-ending waves of lay-offs, force-reductions and forced early retirements, and the local’s campaign support for the political candidates who later proposed and supported the legislative acts that resulted in their pain and suffering. What I witnessed as one of the top officers of that local is not uncommon. The same thing happens in the meeting halls of every local union in America and millions of American union members routinely buy into the lies they are told without question. Independent thought is the scourge of any collective advocacy group and critical reasoning is enthusiastically discouraged. The continued growth and financial stability of labor unions, parent-teacher associations, the AARP, La Raza, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is entirely dependent on these groups ability to convince their members that their sole purpose for existence is to benefit the people they serve regardless of what they are actually doing. Given the simple fact that most Americans would rather acquiesce to a lie than exercise their atrophied ability to think independently, the advocacy group’s ability to perpetuate the myth of benevolence is not difficult to perpetuate. The United States of America now stands on the brink of destruction because the American people would rather follow than think. If you believe that this statement of simple fact needs to be substantiated with examples and proof beyond those that are already banging away at your mind twenty four hours a day, seven days a week then you are a clueless follower of the herd in front of you and you need to quit reading and catch up before you find yourself lost and being forced to think.
Admittedly, I have always been pretty hard on the Democrats, or at least what passes for a Democrat these days. For the most part they are a spineless lot willing to trade entitlements for votes and they could care less about the people they serve as long as they stay in control, however, the Republicans politicians are no better and I consider them more despicable simply because I expect more from them and they have proven themselves incapable of their own high standards. Generally speaking, the American people expect their political representatives to be wiser, more intelligent and steadfastly truthful and honest but we vote for liars, cheats and con artists time after time because our choices are intentionally limited between a Democratic crook or a Republican crook and ultimately, the choice is not being made by the American people but by the political parties who control the campaign funds and finance the entire charade. When the American people voted for Barack Obama in 2008 they were voting for what they hoped would be an end to the extreme corruption of American government by self serving politicians and special interests. It is pretty obvious that they were sold a bill of goods and our current political environment is a continuation of the same old garbage. If anything, we are far worse off now than we were and disaster is knocking even louder than ever before. Not only do we have to deal with the political bickering of self-serving politicians slashing and stabbing away at each other but we’ve allowed them to manipulate us into believing that We are a part of that fight and that we need to choose up sides and start slashing and stabbing away at each other, and the most ironic thing about it is that no matter who wins that battle, the American people lose. As long as we have a two party system where both groups are predominantly a bunch of self serving, dumb as a bag of hair, dishonest jerks, we are better off if neither side wins an overwhelmingly dominant position.
If political wisdom (an oxy-moron if there ever was one) were the product of scientific reasoning and experimental research, the state of California would be viewed as the classic example of a carefully conducted experiment. The state of California has been said to lead the entire nation with its progressive trends, fashions, economic policies and legislative proposals. With two brief exceptions the Democratic Party has had a solid lock on the state of California’s legislature since 1959. The Democratic Party has accomplished this feat by trickery and the most extreme form of gerrymandering imaginable. It is nearly impossible for an incumbent to be voted out of office in California, and despite the fact that the state has had quite a few Republican governors the state legislature has remained under Democratic control for nearly fifty years.
California is the most populous state in the nation and the second most populous sub-national entity on the North American continent. Some years ago it was noted that if the state of California were a nation it would rank among the ten largest economies in the world. It is home to the nation’s second and sixth largest census statistical areas as well as eight of the nation’s fifty most populous cities, and it has an estimated population of 36,961,664 people. Unfortunately, approximately one third of the nation’s illegal aliens reside in the state of California and while the estimates of the state’s illegal alien population range from 4 million to 13.2 million, anyone brave enough to drive through downtown Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Boyle Heights or any other densely populated area of the state would be willing to swear that the higher estimate is more credible. The high density of illegal aliens in California is the result of having nearly thirty major California cities publicly announce their defiance of federal immigration laws and proclaim themselves as “Sanctuary Cities” where illegal aliens are free to do as they please without fear of apprehension.
The economy of the state of California represents about 13% of the United States gross domestic product or approximately $2 trillion dollars annually. The gross domestic product of California alone is larger than all but eight countries in the world. However, despite the wealth of the “Golden State” California’s state government has managed to accumulate an estimated $40 billion dollar deficit by nearly tripling their state spending in the last ten years to finance entitlement programs aimed primarily at the massive influx of illegal aliens. The state government’s sole source of income is the state income taxes imposed on its legal residents and citizens and 97% of those individuals contribute less than 40% of the taxes collected. A mere 3% of the state’s inhabitants contribute more than 60% of all state taxes collected. Meanwhile, anywhere from 3 million to 13.2 million illegal aliens contribute little or nothing to the state coffers and serve primarily as a massive drain on the state’s economy. Incredibly enough, the state’s predominantly Democratic legislators have futilely tried for years to plug this drain with huge piles of tax dollars. It hasn’t worked yet, but it’s possible that it might work next year, or the year after. The logic of their actions is not apparent.
In order to maintain the high level of entitlement programs for illegal aliens the state legislators have cut deeply into the educational budget for the state. Hundreds of classes were eliminated altogether, thousands of workers were forced out of jobs and state college tuitions were increased by 32%. More than $16 million dollars derived from the increased tuitions and fees paid by the state’s legitimate resident college students will go directly to pay for the financial aid benevolently handed out to individuals who entered the United States illegally. Young American students, the sons and daughters of the state’s legal residents and citizens whose tax dollars were used to build, maintain and operate the state’s universities, are already being forced to finance their own way through school by working two or three part time jobs, and now the cost of their tuition, text books and miscellaneous school fees are being significantly increased to provide virtually free college educations to the state’s overwhelmingly large population of young illegal aliens. Ironically, upon the successful completion of their studies, illegal aliens with college diplomas, master’s degrees and even doctorate degrees remain legally unemployable because they entered the United States without legal authorization. Then again, the illegal alien graduates of California’s tax payer subsidized state universities and colleges can and do find positions of employment in the state of California and elsewhere across the nation by illegally falsifying their identities and their immigration status, or by going to work for any one of the multitude of American companies who are more than willing to consciously accept obviously false identification papers and immigration documents in order to fill their vacant positions providing the bearer of those blatantly phony papers willingly acquiesces to drastically discounted wage scales. The businesses and multi-national corporations operating out of California have led the nation in new and ingeniously clever ways to get around the federal prohibition against hiring illegal alien workers. Entire departments of many large companies in California have been outsourced to temporary agencies who hire illegal aliens to perform the parent company’s work as independent contractors. This quasi-legal arrangement provides the company with an unlimited supply of dirt cheap workers. They cannot be held accountable for the immigration status of another company’s employees and they have the advantage of not having to pay worker’s compensation, provide benefit packages, 401 K plans or complying with state and federal overtime laws. Temporary agencies sprout up like mushrooms all over the state and disappear just as quickly. By the time the federal government becomes aware of their existence, they’ve moved, changed names, and continue their operation from another location. Some of these temporary agencies have never even had an office inside the United States where the work their U.S. educated employees perform originates.
The state of California is the Petri dish where the future of ultra progressive American culture grows and any prudent American citizen concerned for the welfare of this nation would do well to carefully examine the cause and effect of California’s legislative history and government policies. The ludicrously idiotic, illogical and amoral legislative acts passed into law by the state’s execrably myopic political “representatives,” the irresponsible, inane, dangerous and downright stupid local government policies and ordinances adopted by self-serving, bribe taking, treasury dipping, pathological malcontents who have lied, cheated, purchased and manipulated their way into positions as civic leaders, representatives and supervisors of city and county boards and mayor’s offices, as well as the goatish inbred political elitists squatting over the state’s population at the executive level in Sacramento have turned the “Golden State” of California into a blighted, feculent, malodorous festering, scum-covered 163,696 square miles of overflowing cesspool.
Fifty-five years ago California might have been worth emulating. It was a classic example of this nation’s cutting edge technology, it lead the nation in scientific and academic achievements and the state’s prosperous manufacturing capabilities were marvels of human ingenuity and it served not just the United States but the entire civilized world as a center of technology and engineering competence, the home of the world’s most prosperous entertainment and music endeavors, and the center of American agricultural production. California’s seemingly endless supply of natural resources, massive oil deposits and mineral resources remained at full production levels long after the demands of World War II subsided. The state’s countless defense manufacturers, pumped up by more than 12% of the U.S. government’s wartime defense contracts quickly adapted to manufacturing industrial goods after the war. Los Angeles became the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation and millions of people poured into California from the eastern, southern and mid-western states where joined hundreds of thousands of returning American soldiers to create the most populous state in the Union. California was where businesses thrived, countless good paying jobs waited for willing workers and housing tracts developed into sprawling suburbs complete with department stores, restaurants, public parks, libraries, schools and hospitals interconnected by a spider web of roads and highways packed with affordable automobiles as everyone scuttled about in pursuit of the American dream. The prosperous American middle class, consumerism, credit cards and amusement parks were born in the state of California and the state’s massive entertainment industry effectively, and very deceptively, demonstrated the multi-faceted pleasurable nature of California’s newly developed lifestyle to the rest of the world through the miracle of modern television. The state of California transformed the entire nation with its technological advancements, scientific achievements, agricultural developments, manufacturing, entertainment, and music industry. However, that was fifty-five years ago.
The California of 2010 is a very different place. It is still the most populous state in the nation with 36,756,666 residents. Ridiculously conservative estimates indicate that California is home to around 3 million illegal aliens. More realistic estimates range from to 6 to more than 9 million illegal aliens in California alone. The state’s agricultural industry is entirely dependent on the ever expanding population of illegal aliens. In many respects the relationship between the agricultural industry in California and the illegal aliens they employ is remarkably similar to the relationship that once existed in the southern states between the plantation owners and their slaves. The illegal alien field hands receive little compensation for working 12 to 16 hours a day in the hot sun of California’s fertile agricultural areas. They are paid far below the legal minimum scale and receive no additional compensation for the many hours of overtime they are required to put in. They housed in dilapidated rat and cockroach infested shacks that goats wouldn’t walk into. The state required portable toilets parked nearby can be easily located on the darkest of nights by the thick putrid stench of receptacles filled to the breaking point with human excrement. In many cases the portable toilets are supplied by the same outfits that broker the illegal laborers and haul them from one field to the next in antiquated, over packed school buses purchased for next to nothing at state sponsored auctions. The brokers that supply them also charge them for the meager food they receive, the hovels they live in and the blankets they sleep under. They also supply them with cheap liquor to drink at expensive prices and occasionally arrange for underage females to be smuggled into the country to satisfy the sexual needs of forty or more workers in a single day. Commonly these young girls are lured into making the trip up here with promises of good paying jobs in the garment factories of Los Angeles, and more often than not, they are abandoned by the side of the road, penniless and traumatized. Those that are not abandoned are hauled off to the next waiting group of less than discriminating field hands. As ignorant and uneducated as these field hands commonly are, few of them spend more than one season in the fields before either returning home or heading into the nearest large city where they can find better paying employment as temporary workers for landscaping companies, restaurants, car washes owned by unscrupulous American businessmen who would rather cheat an illegal alien out of wages than pay an American citizen minimum wage for doing the work that needs to be done. In 2010 the once glorious state of California is buried in debt up to its eyeballs. It is 163,696 square miles of crime ridden cesspool interconnected by thousands of miles of ill-maintained, antiquated and ridiculously over-crowded highways that allow the millions of daily commuters the ability to travel back and forth at a maximum speed of 10 miles per hour. The manufacturing industry and the entertainment industry have folded up shop and moved to other states where the taxes are lighter and regulations less harsh, and the most conspicuous characteristic of the state’s vast shopping malls are the empty windows of the bankrupt stores. Huge healthcare complexes lie vacant and unused, hammered out of business by the unfunded mandate to treat those who will not pay. The only things that are actually growing in the state are the unemployment rate, the illiteracy rate of recent high school graduates, the population of homeless people and the state income tax.
In 2005 a study conducted by the California Research Bureau estimated that the cost of providing health care to illegal aliens in California alone was $10.5 billion per year
In 2006 the California Department of Education handed out $122,389,686 in grants to roughly 22 regional centers through a federally funded program that was authorized under the “No Child Left Behind Act” called “The Migrant Education Program.”
In 2008 the Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services indicated that 25% of Los Angeles County’s welfare and food stamp benefits are going directly to the children of illegal aliens, and it was costing the L.A. County taxpayers $36 million a month.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the current unemployment rate in California is around 12.3%. American citizens are going broke, facing bankruptcy and losing their homes by the thousands and yet the policy makers, the movers and shakers in Sacramento who were elected to represent the people of the state refuse to acknowledge any correlation between the illegal aliens and the high rate of unemployment; furthermore, they blatantly deny that illegal aliens have anything but a positive impact on the state’s economy. The Sacramento politician’s delusional belief that the millions of illegal freeloaders form the foundation for a healthy state economy is, bluntly speaking, crazier than shit. It is another classic example of a liberal lie told often enough to become accepted as a popular truth despite the absence of logic, substantiating factual evidence or supporting statistical research. It is a delusion that is enthusiastically propagated by the liberal news media through bold headlines declaring “UCLA Study Says Legalizing Workers Would Aid Economy” as the Los Angeles Times recently did on January 7, 2010. Unfortunately, the left-leaning newspaper declined to explain to it’s readers that this purported scholarly study was slapped together by a UCLA professor working in the “Chicano Studies” department. Obviously, someone in the newspaper’s editorial staff felt that the full disclosure of this relevant bit of information might reduce the overall credibility and impact of the article and raise questions about the possibility of the lone researcher’s favorable bias towards illegal aliens. From the viewpoint of a far-left newspaper struggling to justify a popular, but entirely unjustifiable delusion, such a concern would be warranted. There is no legal, moral, statistical or logical argument of substance for the legalization of this nation’s estimated thirty to forty million illegal aliens, and there is no place in the United States where the cold reality of this fact is made more apparent than it is in the state of California. Ton after ton of well documented statistical data derived from state and federal law enforcement, welfare, and educational agencies clearly demonstrating the detrimental and very expensive impact of illegal aliens on the United States, and most especially, on the U.S. tax payers can only be countered with hype, spin, fraudulent studies, meaningless rhetoric, misleading newspaper articles and outright lies. It’s the tried and true strategy of the left, it worked well for health care reform and there is little reason to believe that it won’t work for amnesty. That is, as long as the people of this nation don’t look too hard at the state of California.
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