| Author | Message | ||
     crosswize Junior Member Username: crosswize Post Number: 43 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 70.113.57.158 |
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn. The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration. A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497 (Message edited by crosswize on February 25, 2007) | ||
| crosswize Junior Member Username: crosswize Post Number: 44 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 70.113.57.158 |
They say we live in a free society governed by the rule of law and the will of the people. But, if you think about it, some of the most monumental decisions and policies are made without the consent of the American people, without their knowledge and without any discussion or any debate. Let me give you an example. Between 1925 and 1965, immigration into this country -- legal and illegal -- totaled less than 200,000 a year. I was around in 1965 -- young, but around. I don't remember any debates taking place about increasing the number of immigrants. I don't recall anyone making the case for allowing more workers in. But it started to happen. Between 1965 and 1989, the average annual immigration figure jumped to more than 500,000. That's a big jump -- more than 100 percent. It had profound effects on the country and our way of life. But it just happened, without a lot of discussion -- except in 1986, when the American people were told they would have to accept a comprehensive immigration reform plan (sound familiar?) that would include a one-time amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, along with increased border protection to ensure the same mistakes were never made again. Yet the mistakes were made again -- only this time even bigger. Through the 1990s, again, without any national debate or discussion and without any major congressional action -- immigration, legal and illegal (but mostly illegal) climbed to an average of 1 million people a year. One million. A million here, a million there -- pretty soon you're talking about a lot of immigrants. And we've got a lot of immigrants in this country, make no mistake about that. I'm willing to bet, no matter where you live, that you see the illegal aliens lining up for work at construction sites, shopping centers or maybe right in front of your home. In my own well-to-do suburban Washington town this week, I was stunned to see about 50 congregating around a small shopping plaza at about 9 a.m., outnumbering shoppers by 3-to-1. I've lived in Los Angeles, Sacramento, southern Oregon and the Washington metro area all in the last 20 years. There's no escaping this problem. Today, Washington is like Los Angeles was 20 years ago. The character of the country is changing right before our eyes, and still no meaningful discussion or debate is taking place. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19420 | ||
| crosswize Junior Member Username: crosswize Post Number: 45 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 70.113.57.158 |
The people are just told by George W. Bush and his elitist friends that Americans won't do the jobs these people will do. I've always considered that insulting to both Americans and the immigrants. But that's what he said. Maybe that's why his poll numbers are so pathetic. Meanwhile, during President Bush's reign through the first six years of the 21st century, the immigration numbers have continued to soar -- even above the million a year figure. Keep in mind, this occurred mostly after the worst-ever attack on American soil -- an act perpetrated by foreigners who infiltrated our country illegally. Without discussion or debate, Bush has poured gasoline on a crisis of wildfire proportions. He actually justifies his refusal to enforce the laws of the land by claiming, without evidence, the need for more foreign workers. According to the best estimates I've heard from sources I consider reliable, there are approximately 20 to 30 million illegal aliens already residing here. Remember hearing back in October that America's population had reached 300 million? We didn't reach that milestone because Americans are having babies. We got to that plateau because of illegal immigration. At the current rate, in the next 34 years, we'll hit the magic 400 million figure -- not because of a baby boom, but because of out-of-control immigration, an open-door policy that is suicidal for this country. But, still, according to Bush, we don't have enough foreign workers. He not only wants to allow those 20 million to 30 million illegals to stay, he wants to keep the floodgates open for more. All this without meaningful debate or discussion -- let alone a vote. All I can say is, representative government, as practiced in America in the 21st century, is not all it's cracked up to be. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19420 | ||
| crosswize Junior Member Username: crosswize Post Number: 46 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 70.113.57.158 |
What is the United States of America? Is it merely an accident of geography, or a job market for the world, or a multiethnic, multilingual lot of people who agreed (more or less, and probably temporarily) to live under a constitution? Those aren't goals to die for; yet many men for centuries have fought and died for America. Where did they get the courage, the stamina, and the perseverance to create and maintain America as an oasis of freedom and prosperity in a hostile world? Patrick Buchanan believes that America is fundamentally a nation "held together by bonds of history and memory, tradition and custom, language and literature, birth and faith." Those bonds of brotherhood and ancestry existed before the U.S. Constitution was written, and sustained us through wars and economic depression. In his newest book, Buchanan challenges us to ponder our national identity, which already existed in the hearts of Americans when the Founding Fathers proclaimed the sovereignty of "we the people." Because we are now in critical danger of losing our identity, the apt title of his book is "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America" (Thomas Dunne Books: $25). Buchanan rejects the notion that American identity is merely "creedal," i.e., united only by a common commitment to the U.S. Constitution and a set of basic laws. Even if that were true, it clearly would exclude the illegal aliens who violate our laws every day. Buchanan agrees with Harvard professor Samuel Huntington that the "central issue of our time" is the migration into America of millions of people who come from very different cultures and refuse to adapt to ours. Buchanan calls the unprecedented entry of legal and illegal foreign born during the last 10 years a tsunami, unlike any wave ever seen in the history of the world. The melting pot metaphor is a thing of the past. Today the United States is admitting people who don't want to be part of the nation called the United States; they want a land that looks like the United Nations General Assembly. The immigrants who came from Europe in previous centuries fully assimilated, but many of today's immigrants instead are "self-segregating, forming their own towns within our cities, maintaining their language and identifying with one another, not America." They maintain their loyalty to their native land. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16717 |
