President Bush: Man of the Year in a New America
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On the same day that I watched the President of the United States use more than 700 words to respond to a question on “immigration reform”, I opened my TIME magazine to see that he had been named “Person of the Year” by that publication for “sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat style of leadership and for setting the global agenda whether the world likes it or not…”
Setting a Global agenda indeed.
In that 700-word answer, the leader of the American people used the phrase “jobs that Americans will not do” five separate times.
He went on to use the term “compassionate” four times and threw in the premise that if the “good-hearted”, mainly Mexican, colonists sent by El Presidente Fox who are pouring over our borders be allowed to pour over those borders legally, we would have an easier time of “taking the pressure off our border”. What?
I am tempted to insert the observation that “There are no jobs Americans will not do - only third-world wages being paid by criminal employers on which Americans cannot live in their own country” several times here.
It cannot be noted too often that another pitchman for amnesty for illegal aliens, Arizona Senator John McCain, uses a figure of “nearly four million” as the number of persons who entered our nation illegally in 2002 – does anybody believe that those numbers have decreased since then? They have not.
Is it the President’s contention that not only are there “jobs Americans will not do”- but that we are producing those jobs at a rate of more than 10,000 a day?
For the President, it seems the goal is to eliminate that pesky border – for him, it seems to be a barrier to profit and taxpayer subsidized labor. War on Terror or not.
According to the president, people are invading our nation to “put food on the table”
I angrily remind the president that Americans want to put food on their family’s table, too. We have begun to assume that it is our right to do so.
Fourteen million of us cannot find a full time job.
Speaking of our immigration system, the President allowed “This is a system that can be much better”.
You said it, Mr. President.
We could actually begin to secure our borders and enforce our laws.
“There are no jobs Americans will not do - only third-world wages being paid by criminal employers on which Americans cannot live in their own country”.
Criminal, profiteering banks, employers, and politicians could be held to the same system of justice as is the rest of America and we as a nation could watch our wages begin to climb back up to that of a developed nation.
We could put American workers first.
Not a popular concept at the club, I’ll bet.
It is at mine.
It is the mantra of the corporate funded illegal alien lobby and the Mexican government that in order for them to be fully successful in occupying our nation, they must “eat the elephant [us] one bite at a time”.
The incremental surrender of America has never been more visible than it is in Bush’s amnesty plan.
Bush made it clear in a 2000 campaign speech that he wanted a “New America”. In that endeavor he is now making good on his promise to “look south” as “a fundamental commitment” of his presidency.
This American rejects President Bush’s “New America” and it is my observation that I am not alone.
My own idea of a “New America” would be one in which I was allowed to insist that we secure our border and not be labeled “un-American”. [“Un-New American”?] One in which I do not have to watch as [good hearted?] illegal aliens demand, and receive, taxpayer funded medical care while many American veterans are refused the same.
And when an American citizen called law enforcement for help in enforcing American laws – they would actually respond.
It would be new here in America if our children were not required to attend bi-lingual public schools that are over-crowded with children of illegal aliens from the third world.
I can see a glimpse of the “New America” Bush has in mind for us from here in occupied Marietta, in the state that I sadly label “Georgiafornia”.
Everyday I can watch twenty five – thirty illegals push, shove and aggressively compete for two jobs for which one bargain-hunting contractor in a new pick-up truck fearlessly solicits help in a local parking lot.
At the end of that day I can watch as nearly half of these “willing workers” go back to their [illegally] overcrowded homes in the “New American” barrio without having been hired – even for the $10.00 an hour cash normally paid by the shameless “willing employers”.
“Labor shortage” anyone?
The “New America” is also evident in small towns like Jupiter, Florida. Where its citizens clamor in complete disbelief for protection and relief help from their elected leaders.
Some of those city officials are considering building a “day-labor center” to not only assist the local illegals in taking American jobs, but encouraging more to come and remain there. It seems that the same compassion is not extended to the Jupiter citizens.
“New American” compassion?
“There are no jobs Americans will not do - only third-world wages being paid by criminal employers on which Americans cannot live in their own country”.
From here in Marietta, we long for a [compassionate] “New America” in which we do not watch as “political capital” is spent to eliminate provisions that would make our national process of granting a driver’s license only nearly as secure as Mexico’s, in the Intelligence Bill that was aimed at an overhaul of our internal security.
In my own vision of a “New America”, [as it was in my grandfather’s America] it is not necessary to endlessly repeat the phrase “There are no jobs Americans will not do - only third-world wages being paid by criminal employers on which Americans cannot live in their own country”.
In his “New America”, it seems that the job the American President will not do is… his job.
