Bushite betrayal of working America
Bushite betrayal of working America
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:58 PM
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Two excellent op-eds have recently been published about Bush's betrayal
of this nation - one by William Jasper and the other by Pat Buchanan.
Both articles follow my commentary.
The links are:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/01-12-2004/amnesty.htm
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36355
First let's look at a few of Jasper's comments:
Many of those voices, however, have been strangely mute
as President Bush has continued, and in some cases expanded,
Clintons suicidal immigration policies. Some have actually
switched from jeering to cheering, apparently convinced that
any policy, no matter how bankrupt, destructive or
unconstitutional, suddenly becomes beneficial when backed by
Republican Party leadership.
True enough and Tom Tancredo is a sordid example that Jasper didn't use
to make his point. Tancredo's guest-worker/amnesty bill is as bad as
any of the other proposals and Bush is incorporating some elements of
Tancredo's bill into his.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a leading congressional champion
of immigration control, was likewise appalled. "I can think of
few things that could be more dangerous for homeland security
than granting amnesty to 8 to 12 million illegal aliens," said
Rep. Tancredo, in response to Secretary Ridges remarks.
"Perhaps
the administration ought to dedicate more energy to enforcing our
existing immigration laws and less on finding ways to allow
millions to skirt them."
Oops! It appears that Jasper got snookered into giving Tancredo too
much credit. Few dare to criticize Tancredo's move to the "dark side"
because not only is he a Republican, he is one of the few politicians
that dared to do something about illegal immigration and H-1B. I assume
Jasper didn't know about Tancredo's bill before he wrote this article
because Jasper has never been afraid to attack the status-quo. I just
sent Jasper the dope on Tancredo so expect an attitude change from him
soon.
If President Bushs immigration policy is being framed, as he
himself has repeatedly said, to "match any willing employer with
any willing employee," then we are in for a continuous immigration
deluge - and a huge rise in layoffs of American citizens, as their
jobs are taken by willing foreign employees.
Jasper understands why Bush's plan will destroy jobs. Why don't more
Republicans and Democrats understand this? Let's all remember that most
of the Democrats that are running for President support amnesty and
guest-worker legislation, and that's why we don't hear them speak out
against Bush's betrayal. The Republicrats that rule our country are all
on the same side.
Now let's look at a few of Buchanan's comments:
The front-page story by Mike Allen describes a Bush initiative
on "immigration reform." Seems that U.S. employers would post
jobs and the wages that go with them on a Department of Labor
website. If no Americans came forward to take the jobs, the
employer would be allowed to bring Mexican temporary workers in
legally, give them the jobs, and put them on a fast track to
permanent residency and citizenship.
Buchanan stepped into the same trap that ensnared Jasper. The Orwellian
database that Buchanan mentions is 100% Tom Tancredo. Bush is borrowing
the worst parts of Tancredo's bill and combining them with the
McCain/Flake/Kolbe (three Stooges from Arizona) guest-worker/amnesty
bill. Did you notice that everyone of these open-border politicians are
Republican? They have handed open-borders to the Democrats on a silver
platter! Democrats won't even have to be bloodied with this issue -
they will just sit back and let the Republicans do the dirty work.
What would this mean? U.S. companies would offer pay at or
near the minimum wage for jobs they had open in, say,
construction.
All of these bills are about cheap labor, and Buchanan isn't fooled by
the rhetoric.
How are the Bushites shafting American workers? Let me count
the ways.
Buchanan mentions plenty of "the ways". Read his column and start
counting.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/01-12-2004/amnesty.htm
Vol. 20, No. 1
January 12, 2004
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Bushs Coming Amnesty Plan
by William F. Jasper
The Bush administrations plan to give amnesty to millions of illegal
aliens would prove to be an even bigger disaster than previous
amnesties.
Get ready for a battle royale to save our borders. The Bush
administration and pro-immigration invasion Democrats and Republicans
in Congress are planning a big move this year to give amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens now residing in the United States. President
Bush and his counterpart in Mexico, President Vicente Fox, were forced
to put this scheme on hold in 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. Now the plan is back, along with a multitude of connected
initiatives to deluge the U.S. with waves of legal immigrants,
"refugees," "temporary workers" and your standard variety of illegal
alien border jumpers.
Republicans and conservatives maintained a continuous cannonade against
President Clinton for his blatant disregard of our borders and his
efforts to swell the Democrat Partys voting ranks by giving
citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. Continuing
these policies, they warned, would lead to national suicide. Many of
those voices, however, have been strangely mute as President Bush has
continued, and in some cases expanded, Clintons suicidal immigration
policies. Some have actually switched from jeering to cheering,
apparently convinced that any policy, no matter how bankrupt,
destructive or unconstitutional, suddenly becomes beneficial when
backed by Republican Party leadership.
The Bush administration sent some important signals on this front in
December. First, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge sent up a flare
at a December 9 town hall-style meeting at Miami Dade College. A Copley
News Service report of the event on December 11 made the following
observation:
In the strongest sign to date that the Bush administration is
considering a major immigration initiative next year, Homeland Security
Secretary Tom Ridge has called for "some kind of legal status" for the
estimated 8 million to 12 million immigrants living illegally in the
United States.
Ridge, who oversees the nations borders, also said that such an
unprecedented legalization program should be coupled with a decision
about "what our immigration policy is," followed by a firm commitment
to enforce it.
What does the Bush legalization process mean? "Im not saying make
them citizens, because they violated the law to get here," Ridge said
at the Miami event. "You determine how you can legalize their presence.
Then, as a country, you make a decision that from this day forward -
this is the process of entry, and if you violate that process of entry
we have the resources to cope with it."
Amnesty Disaster Replay
Legalize their presence but never allow them to become citizens? Does
this mean that they would become permanent legal aliens? Mr. Ridge
knows that is an absurd notion; once the millions of illegals are
legalized, the political pressure will build inexorably to grant them
full citizenship.
And what of Secretary Ridges talk about getting tough "from this day
forward" - meaning after the legalization? "Weve heard that one
before," says Karl Nelson, a retired investigator for the former
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). "Look, thats what the
immigration reformers promised with the 1986 IRCA [Immigration
Reform and Control Act] amnesty," Nelson told The New American. "But
what really happened? Most of INS resources were shifted over to
processing nearly three million aliens for amnesty. Did we get the
promised enforcement increases? No. Did that amnesty satisfy the
amnesty advocates? No. They immediately pushed for widening the amnesty
and granting innumerable exceptions. And the [Reagan-Bush]
administration caved in. Did we get control of our borders as promised?
No. As everyone should know by now, our borders continued to be overrun
- and still are being overrun. Show me one reason why we should trust
in the new promises when the record shows that all similar promises in
the past have been broken."
The new Bush amnesty would be far worse than previous amnesties, says
Nelson, who served 25 years in the Border Patrol and INS. "The
paperwork alone will be a killer," he notes. "The IRCA amnesty program
ate up much of the INS budget and tied up an extraordinary percentage
of INS personnel. How will they process several times that number of
applicants? The reality is that tightening budgets together with
personnel overload and political pressure to speed the process will
result in rubberstamping not only millions of current illegal
residents, but millions more who will come to take advantage of the
opportunity. Besides all of the usual economic and social problems this
will cause an incredible security problem. Homeland security? This is
absolutely ludicrous."
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a leading congressional champion of
immigration control, was likewise appalled. "I can think of few things
that could be more dangerous for homeland security than granting
amnesty to 8 to 12 million illegal aliens," said Rep. Tancredo, in
response to Secretary Ridges remarks. "Perhaps the administration
ought to dedicate more energy to enforcing our existing immigration
laws and less on finding ways to allow millions to skirt them."
White House Spin Cycle
At a December 11 press briefing, White House spokesman Scott McClellan
was asked if Secretary Ridges statements were signaling a new
amnesty policy. Mr. McClellan said "no," but acknowledged "there are
some that had interpreted this as some broad amnesty discussion, and
thats not at all that he was suggesting." However, McClellan then
failed to offer anything that would dispel the alleged
misinterpretation. In a muddled and evasive explanation, he stated that
Ridge has been "looking at the issue of the large number of illegal
immigrants we do have in the country, and looking at those that could
be threats and those that are here for other reasons. And so hes
just talking about the realities that we are facing now."
A few days later, at a December 15 press conference, President Bush
told reporters that he "is firmly against blanket amnesty." This is
more of the Clintonian rhetorical slithering weve come to expect on
this issue. Note the president didnt say "no amnesty," just no
"blanket amnesty." Bushs upcoming selective amnesty (or amnesties)
is apparently intended to look conservative compared to one that
unreservedly proclaims amnesty for all illegal aliens regardless of
nationality or circumstances.
At the same press conference, President Bush made another important
statement. He declared: "I have constantly said that we need to have an
immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any
willing employee." The president has indeed repeatedly expressed this
policy position and done everything possible to implement it. What is
extraordinary is that this radical position has gone largely unexamined
and uncontested by conservative and liberal-left politicos and
commentators alike. There are literally hundreds of millions of
"willing employees" throughout the world who would gladly come here to
work for a fraction of what American employees are paid. If President
Bushs immigration policy is being framed, as he himself has
repeatedly said, to "match any willing employer with any willing
employee," then we are in for a continuous immigration deluge - and a
huge rise in layoffs of American citizens, as their jobs are taken by
willing foreign employees.
Amnesty by Any Other Name
Back in September 2001, The New American observed regarding the
Bush-Fox amnesty threat: "The Bush administration has been torturing
the English language in an effort to craft a new amnesty for millions
of illegal aliens without saying the dread word: amnesty. Some
newly devised euphemisms include regularization,
legalization, permanent status, and earned
adjustment. President Bush has repeatedly dodged the amnesty issue,
refusing to use the term. Still, when recently pressed on the issue, he
insisted that his soon-to-be-revealed immigration policy vis-`-vis
Mexico will not include a blanket amnesty."
We noted that "whatever Clintonesque term is finally adopted as the
cover for the Bush policy, a large amnesty is certain to be the central
component of his immigration package." And it is coming, regardless of
the intentionally conflicting signals being sent by the White House. As
the Copley News Service reported on December 11, 2003, "the
administration is considering a major election-year immigration
initiative." The report continued:
In September, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said he had received White
House assurances that if a bill he drafted to legalize between 500,000
and 800,000 farm workers reached the presidents desk, Bush would
sign it....
And this week, Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said in an interview that Karl
Rove, Bushs chief political strategist, promised a presidential push
to deliver on immigration reforms sought by Mexican President Vicente
Fox and advocates for undocumented workers.
The Rove-Bush strategy aims at keeping the Republican core distracted
with other matters until the administration has put together a
sufficiently impressive coalition of business leaders and radical
Hispanic militants as to appear unstoppable. The Bush White House then
intends to ram its amnesty plan through Congress before opponents can
rally to stop it.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36355
Monday, December 29, 2003
Bushite betrayal of working America
Posted: December 29, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Patrick J. Buchanan
) 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
On Christmas Eve, a story and column in the Washington Post caught the
eye. For they tell much about the two Americas we are becoming under
George Bush and a Democratic Party that has cut its roots to working
America.
The front-page story by Mike Allen describes a Bush initiative on
"immigration reform." Seems that U.S. employers would post jobs and the
wages that go with them on a Department of Labor website. If no
Americans came forward to take the jobs, the employer would be allowed
to bring Mexican temporary workers in legally, give them the jobs, and
put them on a fast track to permanent residency and citizenship.
What would this mean? U.S. companies would offer pay at or near the
minimum wage for jobs they had open in, say, construction.
As few Americans can support a family and kids in school on $5 an hour,
many of these jobs would go begging. The employer would then be allowed
to go to Mexico, where the minimum wage is about 60 cents an hour, or
countries where it is even less, and hire all the hard-working labor he
needed at the U.S. minimum wage.
As there are billions of people on earth who do not earn anything near
$5 an hour, what the Bush plan means is throwing open America's borders
to millions of workers who will come in and suppress the wages of
America's workers.
Why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce might love this is easy to understand.
But what is Bush doing to the working Americans who put him in office?
Yet, as one reads further in the story, it appears it is not Bush who
is doing this, it is boy-wonder Karl Rove. Bush's guru seized on the
idea as part of the campaign's "compassion agenda."
In addition to bringing in millions of workers who would take jobs at a
fraction of a living wage for American families, Bush will propose that
10 million aliens, who are in this country illegally, be made legal.
According to the Post, Rove & Co. "concluded that they needed a
response to the large population of undocumented workers for the plan
to be credible and for Bush to get credit from Hispanic voters.
In that last clause lies the motive behind the sellout.
Rove is pandering to Hispanics, giving militants in the Latino lobbies
what they demand some form of stealth amnesty, where those who
broke into this country are made legal residents of the United States
and put on the path to citizenship. He is buying votes by selling out
the white working class, which, presumably, has nowhere else to go.
As a sop to those who believe aliens who break our laws should be sent
back home, the Bushites promise better border controls. In brief, if
you want Bush to enforce America's immigration laws, you must permit
him to pardon those who broke these laws. And if you agree, Bush will
promise to be more conscientious in doing his presidential duty to
defend the borders of the United States.
How are the Bushites shafting American workers? Let me count the ways.
Under Bush's free-trade zealotry, the United States has lost
manufacturing jobs for 40 straight months, the longest stretch since
the Great Depression. Under Bush, hundreds of thousands of high-tech
workers have been brought into the United States to take jobs at wages
one-half or a third of those commanded by the U.S. workers they
replace.
Under Bush, the "outsourcing" and "off-shoring" of U.S. jobs has
accelerated, with tens of thousands of jobs once held by high-paid
white collar and information-technology workers going to Asia.
Under Bush, millions of legal and illegal immigrants have poured into
the country, putting downward pressure on wages.
Under Bush, the merchandise trade deficit has risen to $550 billion,
which represents a massive annual transfer of factories, jobs and
technology. China, Japan and East Asia are the lead looters of
America's once-awesome manufacturing base. Americans today buy nearly
15 percent of the entire GDP of China. The Chinese buy two-tenths of 1
percent of ours. It's what the Bushites call "free and fair trade."
What are the consequences for American workers? In a Post column,
"Un-American Recovery," Harold Meyerson says it all.
U.S. corporate profits have been rising for 7 months. In the third
quarter of 2003, the economy grew at 8.2 percent, productivity at over
9 percent. Have our workers shared equally in the good times?
Writes Meyerson: "Since July, the average hourly wage increase for the
85 million Americans who work in non-supervisory jobs in offices and
factories is a flat 3 cents. Wages are up just 2.1 percent since
November 2002, the slowest wage growth we've experienced in 40 years."
That's right. According to Meyerson, the wages of Americans have gone
up three cents since the economy took off on a tear in July.
Let it be said: Working America has no powerful voice in politics. Both
Democrats and Republicans are open-borders, free-trade zealots, who
troll for cash from corporate America and burn their incense at the
altars of the global economy.
America needs a new party.
Pat Buchanan's book "The Death of the West" is an eye-opening exposi
of how immigration invasions are endangering America. Both autographed
and unautographed copies are available at WorldNetDaily's online store!
Patrick J. Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination and the Reform Partys candidate in 2000. He
is also a founder and editor of the new magazine, The American
Conservative. Now a political analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated
columnist, he served three presidents in the White House, was a
founding panelist of three national television shows, and is the author
of seven books.
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