http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/can_the_gop_reframe_the_illega.html
January 25, 2008
Can the GOP Reframe the Illegal Immigration Issue?
By Lee Cary
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One major task facing the eventual Republican presidential nominee will be to reframe the debate toward the real issue: the negative ramifications, to both illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens, that stem from mass uncontrolled immigration from Mexico.
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IMHO
“Illegal” versus “legal” immigration is a smoke screen in front of the real issue.
The Mexican “invasion” of illegals across the border is more smoke.
The real issue is welfare!
I’m against welfare. For anyone. Period. Exclamation point. It’s socialism, (or worse), to steal from one person to dole it out to some one else, after extracting a large “handling fee” (i.e., pay a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats to steal and dole).
Under the heading of “welfare”, I include “free public education”, “free medical care”, and all the other “services” that gooferment at all levels provides.
(As a side note, there is another moral hazard with “free public education” provided by the gooferment, it’s propaganda; not education. When the communists setup reeducation camps for political prisoners or when they remove children from their families for education, Americans were horrified and deservedly so. When our own gooferment does it, that’s different. How? That escapes me. But, it’s no surprise at how poorly we are doing education wise in terms of results or costs. The continued reelection of the same hacks can be directly attributed to the “reeducation camps” here in the USA.)
So get rid of welfare, and the only “good” immigrants that will want to come. They will be the ones we want. People who want to work, improve their lot, and that’s good for all of us. And, when the “illegals” who are here to collect find life tough, they will take themselves home or get to work.
Either way — come to work or get to work, I don’t give a damn!
The side benefit of fixing “welfare” is that those USA citizens, who have been gaming the system and “collecting”, will also have to start “earning”. They need to pull their own weight in this lifeboat. They are no better than the “illegal immigrants” collecting.
We should remember the lessons of the Pilgrims in 1620. They nearly starved under socialism until they discovered “capitalism”. Once, everyone was rewarded for their labors, the community prospered.
Socialism kills; “greed” (i.e., enlightened self-interest) is good.
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