Re: "I will not sell my soul"....
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Posted by Mike Scott on February 07, 2008 at 12:38:03
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posted by Jim S on February 05, 2008 at 20:01:53:
Chairman@gop.comRe: Why John McCain is anathema as President of the United States.
Dear Mr. Duncan:
As I long time Republican, and someone far more versed on illegal immigration than Senator McCain, please allow me to tell you why electing John McCain President of the United States is akin to drinking a cup of Plato’s Hemlock.
Just like the Typhoid Mary of American immigration, Senator Ted Kennedy, - for the last few years, John McCain joined hands with this dreadful Massachusetts senator by cooperatively favoring the welfare of illegal immigrants far above the welfare of unskilled American workers, and innocent American taxpayers.
Last year’s S-1639, a masterpiece of legislative deception, whose principal authors were Kennedy & McCain, was written in virtual secrecy by a few senators gathered outside normal legislative channels, without any public hearings, with severe restrictions upon amendments, and with little consideration for the nation’s federal, state & local government’s abilities to pay for, or administer the legislation. It was a brazen, bare-knuckled approach to ram the bill down the Senate’s throat in the dead-of-night. It was also an attempt by the “Grand Partnership” to load-up so much information in a short period of time, - - hundreds of pages of inscrutable mice type, - to insure that most Senators wouldn’t have sufficient time to read or understand this deluge of data. This shabby legislation cast serious doubts about McCain’s willingness to faithfully represent the nation’s and his constituent’s best interests. (e.g. Arizona’s Prop 200) S-1639 cast equally serious doubts about McCain’s dedication to “Consent of the Governed”.
The mood of the country is to first enforce our borders & worksites, - - prior to moving-on to other issues. Many Americans justifiably don’t trust the federal government or Congress to live-up to the pledges of sponsoring senators. This was partially the result of the failed 1986 IRCA legislation that proved the federal government couldn’t be trusted to enforce our immigration laws. S-1639 provided blasphemous rewards for those who break our immigration laws, - - without giving reasonable assurances that any significant reductions in future illegal immigration were in-the-cards. In fact, the CBO projected only a 13%-25% reduction in illegal alien crossings.
One of the reasons for S-1639’s defeat was because it increased total legal immigration by almost 100%, without providing any justification for these huge immigrant increases. Why should legal immigration be materially increased without the slightest bit of empirical evidence about its impacts upon the nation’s carrying capacity, or population growth? S-1639 ignored the horrors of overpopulation and degradation of the nation’s carrying capacity, or, - dwindling natural resources. A population of 76 million in 1900, - 302 million now, - 600 million by the middle of the next century.
S 1639 also omitted the CBO’s estimate that the costs to admit these new amnestied immigrants were estimated to be $30 billion in 10 years. S-1369 ignored the Heritage Foundation’s warning, and those of other senators who estimated that Social Security payments to these amnestied illegal aliens would amount to $2.6 trillion in 30 years.
In short, this legislation contained so many negative & questionable items, plus hidden ideological Claymores, that it would have been unconscionable for patriotic Americans to trust the authors of S-1639. For his part in all this, Senator McCain failed a monumental watershed test of fiduciary focus & commitment to open & honest debate.
Let’s go back a short while & watch Senator McCain chicken-out of a discussion with his own constituents on the subject of “Anchor Babies”. Senator McCain lacked the guts to answer to this important question, and had an American citizen removed from the meeting hall for daring to ask a question that McCain wouldn’t, for lack of guts. Hardly presidential material. Please see for your self – below.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1073039/dont_ask_mccain/
If Senator McCain should ever make it into the White House, he’d be facing a choice of whom to betray on illegal immigration, Senator Kennedy, or the American people. I’ve no idea what his choice would be, but I sure as hell don’t want to take the chance.
Michael Scott
Glendora, CaliforniaP.S. According to the July 2007 U.S. Census Bureau, there are 54,277,000 million Americans, ages 16-64, who aren’t in the labor force. This includes 23 million "non college educated" American working-age adults who, for a variety of reasons, don’t have a job. Narrowing down these segments, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of those actively seeking employment who can’t find a full-time job in the current economy, there are 14 million Americans. In spite of this, Senators Kennedy & McCain pressed-on with the madness for 400,000 annual foreign guest workers, year after year, in utter indifference for the facts.
Mr. Duncan, in 348 days, the term of this nation’s arguably worst president in history mercifully comes to an end. And you want to replace this loser with another loose cannon? That’s the end of our party.