Immigration reform
Campaign finance reform
Welfare reform
Medicare reform
Social security reform
Education reform
Banking reform
Bankruptcy reform

The list is never ending

The politicians know what they must do…
re•form
1. To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects; put into a better form or condition

They realized the magnitude of the task…
com•pre•hen•sive
1. So large in scope or content as to include much

So who is going to tell them…
comprehensive reform
1. Phrase not found in the Dictionary

…and your better alternative?

While Pulido got in an uproar about “comprehensive immigration reform” what bothers me most is McCain’s depiction of immigration reform advocates such as myself as “the other side”. If he wants to declare his opposition to effectively enforcing our immigration laws and those like myself that advocate for that novel approach, I am more than happy to declare I’ve no use for this charlatan. My longstanding concerns about his views on the First Amendment (McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform”), the Second (numerous votes supporting a gun-grabber agenda), and his previous support for amnesty have not been addressed at all, but reinforced.

I’m not going to fall for this nutty idea that I have no choice but to support McCain. McCain doesn’t support me. He doesn’t support my community. He doesn’t deserve my support, and he’s not going to get it. Maybe in the long run this might help folks realize that conservatives can’t be taken for granted as a Republican voting block.

On this particular incident with McCain (or, to be precise, about McCain - I’m not sure McCain did anything at all), if you dig through the links and try to figure out what happened, you come down to the fact that the furor on this site (and, presumably, others like it) is totally attributable to some tossed off remarks by Ms. Rosanna Pulido. I have found no direct links to the exact content of McCain’s remarks, only to Ms. Pulido’s description of them. Even her account says only that the Senator used the phrase “comprehensive immigration reform” three times (adding her personal interpretation that she thinks of that phrase as meaning “amnesty”). Taking her account that the Senator continues to think that federal immigration reform is in the national interest at face value - is that any reason for Greg and others to go into a death spiral? All of you know that we need federal immigration reform. There may be disagreement about what the content of that reform should be, but I haven’t heard a soul defend the current situation.

In the link that Greg himself provides, there’s strong evidence that the Obama camp is acting as an agent provocateur on this. Are you guys really that controllable by the most liberal candidate since George McGovern? You’re like Pavlov’s dogs. By November you’ll be completely programmed. Child’s play.

http://www.zillow.com/aerial/DualMapPage.htm?zpid=37520815

I respect McCain’s sacrifice for this country - as I do Max Cleland’s also, for example - but I’d be very, very, very afraid to undergo a McCain presidency. Folks, this guy is a wack job. He has a split personality and a quick temper and an innate desire to pi** people off. I don’t doubt that he’s capable of bizarre behavior that would make the current President’s pale by comparison.

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Behind Closed Doors, McCain Promises Hispanics Amnesty
Maybe we’re beating a dead horse, but just in case anyone still believes John McCain when he said, “I got the message” and will “secure the border first,” this item should dispel that notion. Yesterday, McCain held a closed door meeting with Hispanic activists in Chicago where he promised “comprehensive immigration reform.”

McCain assumed they all supported his agenda, but a patriotic Hispanic named Rosanna Pulido spilled the pinto beans, and exposed McCain’s pandering. Not only was he calling for amnesty, but he was also kissing up to the Reconquistas, “I bet some of you don’t know this — did you know Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English?”

Pulido says she’s outraged “that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative.”

And don’t forget the last presidential election:

By Glen Johnson, Globe Staff | April 6, 2004

McCain has said he would not run with Kerry and has vowed to campaign for Bush, but last month he renewed speculation about a potential matchup when he was asked on ABC’s “Good Morning America” whether he would consider running with Kerry. He replied, “Obviously, I would entertain it.”

He is prone to change …..

1988: Honored by La Raza for opposing official English

Do everything I can to help all immigrants learn English

Deport 2 million illegal immigrants who committed crimes

Would no longer push his own 2006 immigration proposal

“Let me just say I’ve never supported amnesty.”

May 29, 2003 interview: “Amnesty has to be an important part …

Amnesty is forgiveness; we offer fines; lines; & long waits

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/John_McCain_Immigration.htm

And never forget you do have a choice ….as long as it is between the two THEY choose to offer to you.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, so let the bashing begin….

McCain’s Hispanic Outreach person was a Cabinet member in Mexico’s Vicente Fox’s government and is openly for reconquest of Southwest USA.

Some of his comments.

“I never knew the border as a limitation; I’d be delighted if all of us could come and go between these two marvelous countries.”

“We have recognized that the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States…We are a united nation.”

Mexican immigrants “are going to keep one foot in Mexico and are not going to assimilate.”

“We are betting that the Mexican population in the United States …will think Mexico first.”

McNut,s reasons for Amnesty

McCain’s God,s Children Argument!
Then there is they are all God,s children argument(Another McCain favor) well isn’t everyone God,s children? If so then guess McCain is saying everyone and anyone has the right to Invade this Nation, waving their flags, demand their rights, while feasting at the trough of public welfare and Kill, Rape and Rob thousands of American citizens each year! There are 100,s of millions probably billions from India, China, Africa, etc. that would like to immigrat to the USA. If it ok for Latinos to pour across our borders then unless the open borders crowd are racist it should be ok for any and all of the world people to invade this nation!

McCain’s Lettuce Argument!
There’s the “lettuce” argument — we’ll be paying $50/head (or starving)( McCain really likes this argument) if we don’t have illegal aliens working in the fields. As Phil Martin, ag economist at UC Davis shows, the field labor cost in a $1 head of lettuce is about 6 cents. Triple those wages and Americans will do the jobs. (They’re not career positions. They’re seasonal jobs for young people, starting in the world of work. I have did similarly menial jobs.) And you’ll be paying 10% more for lettuce and other produce. Do you spend $1,000/year on produce? OK, you’ll pay $100 more.

There are approx. 20 to 30 millions Illegal Aliens in the USA less than 2% work in the fields but 43 % are on Welfare. If you count their Medical cost and Educating their Spawn at a cost of 7 to 10k per year to American Tax payers as Welfare then close to 100% are on Welfare that American poor and middle class pay an average of 20k per year so the rich have a unlimited supply of slave labor and the Democrats the Welfare vote!

The lettuce argument also parallels that for the retention of slavery.

Immigrant Argument!
There’s the “everyone’s an immigrant except for the ‘Native Americans’” argument. Well, the American Indians didn’t sprout from the land, they came across the Bering land bridge from Asia. So if the criterion is “You’re an immigrant if you had an ancestor who immigrated here,” then American Indians are immigrants, too.

In that case, “immigrant” is no longer a useful word, since Everyone’s an immigrant.

Stole Southwest Argument!
There’s the “the U.S. stole the southwest” argument. Well, the land in dispute was “owned” by Spain for a couple of centuries. Then by Mexico for about 25 years. During these periods, there weren’t more than a few thousand Spaniards or Mexicans in the entire territory. It’s been owned by the U.S. for about 160 years now, much longer than Mexico’s reign. And the U.S. has actually done something with the land, made it habitable for tens of millions. As Robert Kaplan has described, the difference between American and Mexican “twin cities” straddling the border is like night and day, yet the land is obviously the same. It’s not the dirt that’s important, it’s the people. Put another way, if culture didn’t matter, Mexico and Central America would be paradise.

Illegal pay taxes Argument!

There’s the “illegal aliens pay tons of taxes” argument. Sure, they all pay real estate taxes (in rent) and sales taxes (most states). Those working on the books (typically using stolen Social Security numbers) pay FICA and, perhaps, income taxes. But they’re mostly ill-educated and low-skilled and pay very low taxes connected to their working — in fact, most claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, i.e. negative income tax! If a family with both parents working has two kids in school, that’s at least $15k/year just for schooling, way more than the taxes on, say, $35k/year aggregate income.

Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation has done the systematic accounting on all this. A typical household headed by a low-skilled illegal alien is a net drain of about $20k/year for the rest of us, year after year. (Low-skilled Americans are a similar burden, but they’re part of the national family, not gate crashers from other societies.)

Illegal Bad..Amnesty good Argument!

There’s the “illegal immigration is bad, but make them citizens and problem solved” argument. Nope. If that were the case, legalizing (i.e. amnestying) the illegal aliens would solve the problem. But they’d still be (on average) low-skilled workers whose burden on the rest of us would continue. In fact, once legal they’d be able to access more public benefits programs, so their cost to the rest of us would actually rise substantially. In short, most of the problems of mass illegal immigration are shared by mass amnestying them.

The flood of immigrants drives wages and living conditions in our central cities toward those of the Third World.

- The influx imposes both sprawl and gridlock on our metropolitan areas.

- Immigrant families needing services overwhelm our schools, taxpayer-funded health care facilities, and other public agencies.

- Those requiring services don’t assimilate and, instead, expect to be served in their native languages.

- American civic culture frays as each ethnic group establishes its own grievance lobby and pushes for preferences.

- Communicable diseases such as tuberculosis (new, drug-resistant strains) return.

- Shortages of water and other resources loom, especially in immigration-blitzed Southwest.

Most that come across our open borders come from countries where, Crime, Corruption, Poverty, Misery, Anti-education, and hate for Americans has existed for centuries and is normal. Should anyone be surprised they bring those same family values across the border with them?