"Selected outrage? Your damn right I have some too! As we approach the anniversary of our Independence, the goof balls in the streets want nothing more than more dependence. Grow up, burn that pussy hat, and get a job! President Trump is going to do something no other President has done before - fix this mess. Now get out of the way, and let him do it!"
Okay, I am so mad I could spit! Really Bird? From what? Okay - I am not really mad. But many in this country are today. Reading the Red Star paper this morning, there was about a gallon of ink used on all the stories describing this cruel, heartless family separation on the southern border. Like, this just started in January of 2017 when Donald Trump's hand was placed on the Bible. Only it was not started then. You know it, I know it, and the cowed Lefties who were in the streets yesterday, also know it. But their outrage is selective.
In my early days of blogging, I penned an article called "Wither WAMM". It could have also been called "Wither Code Pink", or any other nut ball group who were in the streets back then. They had a real beef - they were against the United States being in any kind of military action. However - there was an unwritten caveat. They were against any REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION type of military action. When a Democrat was in the White House, suddenly these groups went dark. Selective outrage.
Today however, we have selective outrage (redux). The goons have traded in their Code Pink shirts for pink pussy hats (their term, not mine). And they are pissed, really, really pissed! Why? Because of families being separated at the border. Huh? If you really want to get into some fuzzy math, look at the numbers in Obama's first term compared to Trump's. Bottom line? Obama deported over 2,000,000 people in his eight years. A whole bunch of them early in his first term. Entire families - lock, stock and barrel. It was only until his last two years, that the border issue became squishy with him. And then the dreaded executive order on the "Dreamers".
Where were the "pussy hats" in the streets while the 2M people getting the boot under Obama? The same place that WAMM and Code Pink were during the Clinton years. To say these people are hypocrites is an insult to the word "hypocrite". Their actions are so blatantly politically biased, it brings a smirk to my face.
Here is what I have said before, and it might bear repeating. I agree with the early Obama policy, more so than the current Trump policy. Send them all back home, as a family. Don't separate them. What in the world are we going to do with all these kids who are non-English speaking dependents?
Next, Congress - do you damn job! Fund he wall! Our southern border is a MESS because of you. This issue will NEVER go away until we get some sanity down there. And the "open borders" crowd? Get the hell out of here! This country does not need people like you. Why? Because if we were to abide by your wishes, we would soon have no country!
One more thing. If some of these Central American countries are truly "unlivable" due to gangs, drugs or corrupt governments, UN -DO YOUR DAMN JOB! You wanted to send the blue helmets into the United States to monitor our elections (huh?), and yet you allow this mess to continue in Central America? Either help fix it, or the US should pull the plug on this worthless organization.
Selected outrage? Your damn right that I have some too! As we approach the anniversary of our Independence, the goof balls in the streets want nothing more than more dependence. Grow up, burn that pussy hat, and get a job! President Trump is going to do something no other President has done before - fix this mess. Now get out of the way, and let him do it!
Rather than close the border...........
ReplyDeleteThe United States needs more low-skilled immigrants.
Consider, for starters, the enormous demand for low-skilled workers, which could well go unmet as the baby boom generation ages out of the labor force, eroding the labor supply. Eight of the 15 occupations expected to experience the fastest growth between 2014 and 2024 — personal care and home health aides, food preparation workers, janitors and the like — require no schooling at all.
Ten years from now, there are going to be lots of older people with relatively few low-skilled workers to change their bedpans. That is going to be a huge problem.
But the argument for low-skilled immigration is not just about filling an employment hole. The millions of immigrants of little skill who swept into the work force in the 25 years up to the onset of the Great Recession — the men washing dishes in the back of the restaurant, the women emptying the trash bins in office buildings and the guy shingling your roof — have largely improved the lives of Americans.
The politics of immigration are driven, to this day, by the proposition that immigrant laborers take the jobs and depress the wages of Americans competing with them in the work force.
It is a mechanical statement of the law of supply and demand: More workers spilling in over the border will inevitably reduce the price of work.
But it is largely wrong. It misses many things: that less-skilled immigrants are also consumers of American-made goods and services; that their cheap labor raises economic output and also reduces prices.
If there is anything to fear, it is not a horde of less-educated workers ready to jump over the border. The United States’ main immigration problem, looking into the future, is that too few low-skilled immigrants may be willing to come.