- In this continuing series with Washington writer Don
Collins, you may gain a greater understanding of the challenges facing
both democrats and republicans. It's not an easy path they foisted onto
the American people by NOT enforcing our immigration laws for the past
26 years since the last amnesty in 1986. But this time, the numbers prove
TOO huge to give amnesty. Solution: simple enforce the laws against employers
to watch self-repatriation begin. Second solution: stop importing 200,000
legal immigrants every 30 days, month in and month out, year in and year
out!
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- "Democrat Says: Republicans Have A Mandate To Discuss
Real Immigration Reform," by Donald A. Collins
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- "The Republicans now control the US House
of Representatives and have increased power in the US Senate," said.
What better time to fix our broken immigration laws with a real debate
that serves American citizens-and not the powerful cabal of corporate,
ethnic and religious advocates for open borders who have been scandalously
demanding passage of another 1986-style amnesty disaster ( Comprehensive
Immigration Reform or CIR)?
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- "Yes, I realize that the upcoming lame duck session
is fraught with danger. But, again, if some further atrocity gets rammed
down Americans' throats, this will merely underline what my Democrats' Congress
and Administration have been doing to hurt us.
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- "Talk about chutzpah! We are in the Great Recession-so
dubbed because no one wants to admit we are bankrupt-and still taking in over
a million aliens on various legal work visas every year.
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- "So, let's face it, Republicans: it was ANGER that
got you this new power-despite your dreadful record of getting us into
endless wars, alienating millions with our arrogant militarism, and incurring
raging deficits.
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- "By the way, your success was in no small part the
result of the Tea Party's support. As David Corn notes in a recent column: Teapartiers
and the Need for Anger Management
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- "Look at a big tea party target: the TARP bailout.
The Bush-Cheney program-which Barack Obama supported as a candidate
and then continued as president-was hastily arranged and shoved down America's
throat, with little due diligence or small-d democratic input. It was rightly
seen by many as a bailout of the big schemers who had derailed the U.S.
economy (while hanging on to their multiple vacation homes). But it may
well have partially worked by preventing a more calamitous economic decline,
and last week, the news came out that the U.S. government earned $25.2
billion on its $309- billion investment in TARP. That's an 8.2-percent
return-more than what you'd get from a 30-year Treasury bond. Are tea partiers
upset that Obama made money for U.S. taxpayers?
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- "And by the way, it was Obama and the congressional
Democrats who went after the Street scoundrels with a Wall Street reform
bill that was opposed by GOPers. The legislation may not have been tough
enough, but it did more to rein in the perps than anything proposed by
the GOP. So why do tea party types complain about TARP (which is paying
off), while not caring much about changing the rules so the Big Banks don't
play American taxpayers and consumers for suckers again?
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- "Speaking of taxpayers, should tea partiers be ticked
off about taxes? Not at all. Taxes are down for most Americans and at a
historic 60-year low, partly due to Obama's tax cuts."
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- "So, Republicans, you're on a very short leash!
Will your victory, if you do not perform, galvanize Obama in 2012?
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- "That things are likely to be bad for our economy
for years has been well documented. For example, in an October 28th AP
article, Economists: Unemployment Won't Drop to Normal Until 2018, we
learn that, while modest improvement is expected in the economy next year,
AP finds that economists' optimism "has dimmed over the past
three months." Other stories recently have echoed the economists'
views in this AP article:
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- "In their view, shoppers and employers will stay
cautious. Households will keep saving. Inflation will remain tame. And
unemployment will dip only a bit from the current 9.6 percent rate to a
still-high 9 percent at the end of 2011.
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- "In the previous survey in July, the economists
predicted unemployment of 8.7 percent at the end of next year. In the survey
before that, they foresaw 8.4 percent.
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- "Some now think unemployment won't drop to a historically
normal 5.5 percent to 6 percent until at least 2018 - several years later
than envisioned earlier"
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- "But this long-term outlook does mean that we may
have a chance to do something about our immigration invasion.
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- "What? Serious discussions at the highest levels
of our government about what the law should be. A real reform debate, with
all options on the table. Certainly an immigration moratorium should
now get serious consideration.
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- "Moderate voices have for years been arguing, not
against immigrants or reasonable immigration, but for a serious discussion
of the issue by our Congress and Administrations.
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- "But instead, since the disastrous 1965 immigration
act, over 70 million aliens, legal and illegal, have come here and produced
children, as well as bringing many of their relatives from abroad.
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- "The untimely demise in January of 1996 of former
Congress member, Barbara Jordan who headed the landmark study on immigration
-1995's The Commission on Immigration Reform (CIR) was formed by Congress
in 1990, kept a fuller debate at bay.
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- "No-one then or now has called Jordan the names
so freely tossed at those who seek such a discussion by the open border
crowd. But now, as has been apparent for some time, the only bullet
left in the anti-immigration reform gun is the charge of racism. Everyone
discussing real immigration reform has been charged as such by the growing
cabal of open border liberals."
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- The AP story involved some serious polling:
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- "The economists are sharply split on whether the
Fed should do so. And they overwhelmingly oppose another round of government
stimulus spending. They think the economy will make steady gains, just
more slowly than they had earlier thought.
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- "The AP survey collected the views of 43 leading
private, corporate and academic economists on a range of indicators, including
employment, consumer spending and inflation. Among their forecasts:
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- · The
economy will expand just 2.7 percent next year, scarcely more than the
tepid growth predicted for all of 2010. Under an economic rule of thumb,
growth would have to average at least 5 percent for a whole year to lower
the unemployment rate by 1 percentage point.
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- · Shoppers
will boost their spending 2.5 percent in 2011, slightly better than the
increase that economists envision for this year. But spending would have
to rise roughly twice that fast to deliver enough economic punch to lower
unemployment. Three months ago, the economists were more optimistic about
2011: They predicted shoppers would boost their spending 3 percent.
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- · Inflation
will equal just 1.7 percent next year. That's slightly more than the 1.2
percent predicted for this year. And it's about the minimum level of inflation
the Fed thinks a healthy economy needs.
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- · Americans
will keep rebuilding their savings, leaving less money for spending. They're
expected to save 5.4 percent of disposable income next year. That's slightly
less than the 5.7 percent savings rate predicted for all of 2010. But it's
still near the highest savings rate since 1992.
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- "'When you look to 2011, the words to describe the
economy are glum, lousy, subpar,' says Rajeev Dhawan, director of Georgia
State University's Economic Forecasting Center.
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- "What to do about it is the subject of dispute.
Two-thirds of the economists surveyed say Congress should refrain from
more stimulus spending. Some worry that such aid wouldn't be targeted effectively.
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- "Others say the extra spending would take too long
to lift the economy.
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- "An overarching concern is that more government
spending would widen the budget gap, already at $1.3 trillion".
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- "We are going bankrupt and still importing cheap
labor-while our real unemployment rate is north of 15%!" said Collins.
"This insanity must be stopped. We American taxpayers must demand
it."
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- My friend Donald A. Collins [email him], is a freelance
writer living in Washington DC and a former long time member of the board
of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
- from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA,
coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic
Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population
Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church
groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world
population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author
of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies
available: 1 888 280 7715
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