Flood! Flood! Grab The ShamWows!

 

You're throwing your money away!

You’ve been gone from home for a week visiting relatives, eating Aunt Nellie’s tuna and potato chip casserole, jello molds, and whatnot, and you can’t wait to grab a beer and relax on the couch.  You open the door and a wave of water rushes over your feet.  While you were gone, the hot water line on your washing machine burst and there’s five inches of water on the floor and it’s gushing out of the door.  So much for the beer.

What’s the first thing you do?   Get the mop and start soaking it up?  Grab a bucket and start bailing out the living room?  Grab your ShamWows that soak up twenty times their volume (you really are throwing your money away on those paper towels, by the way…)? 

I don’t know about you, but the first thing I’m going to do is shut off the water -and probably grab a beer anyway.

This is the situation with our Southern border.  At present, there is a stream of illegal aliens pouring in, flooding our South Western states with drugs, diseases, pregnancies, and violence.  The full impact of this invasion is staggering and unprecedented and will take decades to clean up – once we ‘shut off the water’, that is.

This simple analogy is why I’ve never bought into the arguments for ‘comprehensive immigration reform’.  None of these types of solutions make a commitment shut of the flow of the illegals.  Most of them are derived from the myth that ‘We can’t deport twenty million illegal aliens.’  So, in other words, the government is telling you that you’ll have to get used to trudging around in the water in your home, because they have no plans on cleaning up the mess.  Amnesty.

Here are  the straw men that have been presented to the public to date by both Republicans and Democrats – most notably Bush and McCain, mainly because I expect the Democrats to say stupid stuff- and my response to them…

We can’t close the border-  This is such a blatant, ridiculous lie as to be unbelievable that any would ever accept it as fact.  It’s not even worth expounding on beyond that.  Remember,  in most cases ‘can’t’ means ‘won’t’.  The truth of the matter is that they, the government, won’t close the border.

We can’t deport 20 million illegal aliens.  This one has rolled off of the tongues of too many politicians to count.  If they ‘know’ that they ‘can’t’ deport 20 million illegal aliens, then they must also know how many they can deport.  Is that a million, perhaps 5 million?  Whatever the actual number they can deport, I think it would represent a good start, when do we get started?  The bottom line is that they don’t ‘know’ that they can’t deport 20million.  What they know is that they ‘won’t’ deport 20 million.

Illegals are here to do the jobs that Americans won’t do- This was one of the most offensive statements ever uttered by a U.S. President.  When it comes to the word won’t, it’s ok to apply it to the work ethic of Americans.  I would contend that the only job that an American won’t do is one that he can’t afford to do.  Subsidized farming drive prices and wages down.  Abusive government regulation and taxes make it very prohibitive for small business to hire permanent employees and expand.  The government creates this environment and ultimately, the demand for illegal workers and their entry to the country.  Also, the notion that the problem needs to be addressed at the employers end is a complete shirking of responsibility by the government.  It is the government’s duty to defend the borders.  Ideally, there should not be any illegals in the country to hire.  When some states issuing driver’s licenses to illegals, it makes it very difficult for an employer to verify whether someone is legit or not.  This is the government’s responsibility, not small business.

Illegals add more to the economy than they consume-  This is just not true.  Much of the income that is generated by the illegals that actually work jobs gets sent back to Mexico.  Dollars used in the U.S. by illegal immigrants is the second largest source of Mexican GDP, next to oil.  The impact on healthcare infrastructure is driving hospitals in border towns into bankruptcy, not to mention the State of California.

Future Democratic Voters!

There are more examples, but that’s enough to make my point.  The government keeps rolling out ‘reason’ after ‘reason’ that they ‘can’t’ take action.  The question is why?  When you think about it, if the Democrats in Congress ever wanted a reason to impeach President Bush, they could have done it for not enforcing the border laws that he was sworn to uphold.  Given how vitriolic as Congress was towards President Bush, that can only mean that the Congress did not want the laws enforced either.  Why would that be?

Well, the simple answer is that these illegals represent post-amnesty voters to Democrats and some border state Republicans.  I believe however, that the, real reason probably has more to do with delaying the implosion of Social Security.

With birthrates down in the U.S. over the last 40 years, the worlds biggest ponzi scheme is likely to come apart sooner, rather than later.  Adding an additional 20 million, and probably closer to 30 million when its all said and done, taxpayers to the tax roles en masse, probably has a certain appeal to our elected plantation masters.  This will give them more time to get out of town sans the rail, tar, and feathers- remember, they all have fat government pensions and are not subject to Social Security taxes or its’ paltry payments.

Now, we could probably tail off into a debate over the merits of Social Security, and how ‘America’s Greatest Generation’ saw fit to bridle their descendants into permanent servitude, entitling themselves to a percentage of their children’s and grand children’s wages indefinitely, but I’ll attempt to stay on point. 

Here’s the bottom line.  There is no political will within the Federal Government to close the border, shut the water off, and stop the flood.  This is an issue that will require constant pressure on the elected Olympians in order to get them to take action.  My experience on this issue is that they want to avoid it like the plague, because any root cause analysis of the problem ultimately leads to the coming Social Security implosion.  

I will not accept the arguments made for doing nothing or for amnesty, and I will continue to write my Congressional delegation on this subject, as frustrating as this has proven to be.  If we sit back and do nothing about this, the country in which we were raised will cease to exist.  If you agree with me that there is little difference between this, ‘most complicated issue of our time’, and a flood in your laundry room, take the 5 minutes out of your day and contact your Congressional delegation and tell them they need to shut off the water!

-OMB