"E.T., Call Home"
It's astonishing how easily the American electorate can be distracted into caring about the wrong things while the country goes to hell in a handbasket. Case in point, illegal aliens. They do not take jobs away from American workers. They are not a terrorist threat. They do not put a drain on social services. They are a necessary part of the economy. Drivers' licenses are not a proof of citizenship, only a proof that someone knows how to drive. And yet the powers that be have voters convinced this is a more important issue than soaring gas prices, the crumbling economy, the fading dollar, and numero uno, the Iraq adventure that's draining the national coffers by billions every month. Only Mike Huckabee on one side and Dennis Kucinich on the other are making any sense about it. Kucinich is the only one making any sense about a lot of things, and yet the media and the other candidates have marginalized him as if he's the village idiot. He took flak the other day because he evidently had once said he saw an unidentified flying object. When chided about it he answered, "I saw something, and it was unidentified." That makes sense to me.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:24 AM
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Kucinish is ugly. He hasn't a chance in this manicured, image obsessed country, (but he has MY vote)
I don't know this man but still think he's in with a chance. If a person can still become PM after video footage of him picking his ear has gone global... anyone can do anything! LOL
Great commentary John... (and cartoon too of course)
Thanks, Jean. Everyone misses the simplest solution to the "problem" of illegal aliens. Legalize them.
Are you serious?
They break our laws, and you want to reward them?
By definition, they are criminals.
Do you know the waiting list for Europeans wanting to immigrate legally to America is 10-15 years long?
Social services for our current citizens are marginal, at best; our schools are over crowded, our medical system a mess.
Who do you think is going to pay for these people?
I could cite statistic after statistic which states the overall contribution of the illegal population is dwarfed by their drain on US resources.
How about these, which are from the US Dept of Justice from 2005:
The proportion of (illegal) immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 24.5 percent compared to 16.3 percent for native households. Once [illegal] get here, they are 50 percent more likely to be on welfare than citizens.
Illegals make up 17% of our jail population, and up to 50% in California.
Or this from the National Immigration Forum statistics just one year later:
Thirty one percent of adult (illegal) immigrants in the United States have not completed high school and 29 percent of immigrant-headed households use at least one major welfare program. By comparison, about 18 percent of native households use at least one major welfare program such as food assistance or Medicaid.
Who do you think pays for their schooling? for their medical bills when they walk into a hospital that must, by law, treat them?
How about this study:
The increasing number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
According to the study, 84 California hospitals are closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens and their non-reimbursed tax on the system.
I could go on, but I hope you get the point. And I'd be happy to read any statistics that refute these.
I think it essential that we make a very clear distinction between illegal immigrants and legal extra-terrestrials. Illegals are not taking jobs away from most of us brain surgeons and CEOs, but ETs are surely passing amongst us undetected in lower-scaled jobs. They don’t need driver’s licenses to operate flying saucers parked in public parking. Too much time is being wasted patrolling our southern borders and not enough time devoted to detecting these insidious individuals. The next time you stand on a supermarket line next to someone shorter who is obviously smarter and more patient to you ask him or her or it where their motor vehicle is parked. The moment they point to the sky rather than the parking lot you’ll know from whence they come. I have nothing against ETs –in fact some of my best friends are ETs-- but God Bless America, enough is enough!
il professore, you are a voice of sanity among us. Love your comment.
Thank you.
All my grandparents came to the United States before immigrants became quotas. MY maternal grandmother was shipped here at age 12 to be a maid (her priest told her family in Bohemia that he had a place for a 12 year old including a ticket) She never saw her family again. My granddfather, a brilliant man who left school at age ten saw her in church,married her, and taught her to read and write. Lift the quotas, legalize the immigrants and watch us grow. roger
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/12/kucinich-asks-h.html
I found this clip on Kucinich... (along with a somewhat mealy-mouthed commentary) I'm sure you've all seen this but before now I'd never heard of him... (not surprising as I live on the other side of the world from you)
The media (and his opponents) would do well not to laugh too long nor too loud.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/
2007/12/kucinich-asks-h.html I'll try that URL again because it didn't all come out. Okay... I tried. It probably won't link from here so cut and paste maybe.
Thanks for that link, Jean. I was able to access it. It's reprehensible the way the system, including the media and the other candidates, treat Kucinich as if he weren't serious. Note the way the article refers to him as "goofy," and yet the things he has to say are anything but!
It is too bad that we have become so enamored with appearances. As Mary says, he is not pretty enough to seriously catch the voters attention. We reap what we sow, unfortunately.
John... I really liked what he had to say!(and 10 points for having the guts to step outside the square) At last! By contrast the other candidates all just sat there BEING square!
I don't find him any more ugly than the other candidates... what an unimpressive bunch they were sitting there all in a row in their dark suits! I wouldn't vote for any of them.
Even Hilary... what's with the drab man's suit? (I was however impressed that she was the only candidate generous enough to give credit where credit was due by clapping with the audience!)
But how I wish she were brave enough to cut across convention and get back into those colourful figure hugging suits she used to wear as First Lady.
Why be like a man when she is so much MORE? She might be surprised at the respect she gets for thumbing her nose at male convention. Just my opinion though of course... (and as you know I am always way too outspoken)
apologies in advance for any (or all) who I have (or will) offend! (((LOL)))
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