Rep. Paul Ryan and the Wall Street Journal are for throwing in the towel. Legalize them all and start them on the path to citizenship. --- a screw job on all Americans.
On Monday, February 3, 2014 4:27:16 PM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > > *How the GOP Lost Middle America *Friday - January 31, 2014 at 1:25 am > By Patrick J. Buchanan > > Out of the Republican retreat on Maryland’s Eastern shore comes word that > the House leadership is raising the white flag of surrender on immigration. > > The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens, > and sign on to a blanket amnesty. It only asks that the 12 million not be > put on a path to citizenship. > > Sorry, but losers do not dictate terms. Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO says > amnesty is no longer enough. Illegal aliens must be put on a path to > citizenship and given green cards to work and join unions. > > Rep. Paul Ryan and the Wall Street Journal are for throwing in the towel. > Legalize them all and start them on the path to citizenship. > > A full and final capitulation. Let’s get it over with. > > To understand why and how the Republican Party lost Middle America, and > faces demographic death, we need to go back to Bush I. > > At the Cold War’s end, the GOP reached a fork in the road. The > determination of Middle Americans to preserve the country they grew up in, > suddenly collided with the profit motive of Corporate America. > > The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production > abroad where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were > low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America. > > Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American > work force, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign labor. > > While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels, > bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move > abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers. > > Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all. > > U.S. factories in the scores of thousands were shut down, shedding their > American workers. Foreign-made goods poured in, filling U.S. stores and > killing the manufacturers who had stayed behind, loyal to their U.S. > workers. > > The Reagan prosperity was exported to Asia and China by the Bush > Republicans. And the Reagan Democrats reciprocated by deserting the Bush > Republican Party and going home. But this was not the end of what this > writer described in his 1998 book, “The Great > Betrayal.”<http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-shop> > > As those hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, fast-food shops, car washes, > groceries and other service industries also relished the rewards of cheap > foreign labor, they got government assistance in replacing their American > workers. > > Since 1990, some 30 to 40 million immigrants, legal and illegal, have > entered the country. > > This huge increase in the labor force, at the same time the U.S. was > shipping factories abroad, brought massive downward pressure on wages. The > real wages of Middle Americans have stagnated for decades. > > What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle > America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its soul > to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast track > and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle America. > > The party went with the folks who paid for their campaigns, only to lose > the folks who had given them their landslides. > > When Republicans accede to the demand for amnesty, and immigration without > end, it does not take a political genius to see what is going to happen. > For it is happening now. > > Almost all of those breaking our laws, crossing the border, and > overstaying their visas are young, poor or working class. Between 80 and 90 > percent are from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. > > They are Third World peoples. They believe in government action and > government programs that provide their families with free education, health > care, housing, food, and income subsidies. They are not Bob Taft or Barry > Goldwater conservatives. > > Perhaps 85 percent of all immigrants, legal and illegal, more than a > million a year now, are people of color. And while over 70 percent of > Hispanics and Asians voted Democratic for Obama, among voters of African > descent, the Obama vote was well above 90 percent. > > Four of every five U.S. citizens of Asian, African and Hispanic descent > vote Democratic in presidential elections. And it is their numbers that are > growing. Already they are well over a third of the U.S. population. > > As has been observed often, America, demographically, is going to look > like California. And while Nixon won California all five times he was on a > national ticket, and Reagan won California in landslides all four times he > ran, California has not gone Republican in six straight presidential > elections. > > Democrats outnumber Republicans there by more than two-to-one in the > Congressional delegation and in the state assembly, and not a single > Republican holds statewide office. > > If Bush I had built that border fence back in 1992 and declared a > moratorium on legal immigration that fall, as many implored him to do, the > party of the Bushes would not be facing its demise well before midcentury. > > > http://buchanan.org/blog/gop-lost-middle-america-6210 > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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