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SteveWeston
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15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - America's Wish List · 0 replies · +1 points
Add to the dilemma concerning leaving your business or position, how about the fact that nearly 20% of Americans otherwise qualified to be members of Congress are forbidden by law to run for political office. The people of whom I speak are government employees, regardless of which level of government, as those who passed the laws (Congress and state legislatures) apparently feel that those of us who work for them cannot be trusted to do our jobs and run for a public office at the same time. Gee, isn't that what they do (or are supposed to do)? I am currently working on getting those laws changed, as I believe they are discriminatory. What is your view?
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 2 replies · +1 points
Of the various reasons so many are calling for comprehensive immigration reform in this country, possibly the most adamant beckon comes from the hospitality, food service, farming, and construction industries. It is the claim of these industries that should the illegal immigrant labor force dry-up due to tighter controls along our borders, coupled with stronger penalties against those who hire them, their markets and our economy will crumble – a claim to which I say: “We have heard this all before; but if so, so be it!”
Did not the same warnings of economic woe come from the plantation owners of the South in the years leading up to our nation’s civil war? Was it not the ridiculously wealthy ‘robber barons’ who assailed the government for requiring better pay and treatment of the Asian immigrant laborers who endlessly toiled to build their railroads, saying they would not turn a profit if they had to pay decent wages and provide adequate living conditions to their workers? In neither case, did the threats of economic disaster prove true. (Continued in Industries Built on Lawlessness, Part 2)
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +2 points
Our nation’s history is replete with industries that have been built on the backs of immigrant labor, the difference between then and now being that the vast majority of today’s immigrant labor force is here illegally. It is that difference that makes this situation so dissimilar in the eyes of most Americans – that we are tired of supporting and protecting those who blatantly choose to break our laws.
Though the cost to the average consumer may initially be high, it is not better that an industry crumble than to let it thrive in open disobedience of the law. Why is it considered a ‘lesser’ crime to hire an illegal immigrant who is carrying forged identification, is not the ultimate cost greater than first seen? How many other industries will find it expedient to break other laws if we do not enforce those concerned with immigration? At what point do we draw the line, if not now? (Continued in Industries Built on Lawlessness, Part 3)
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +2 points
Though I would prefer not to pay $5.00 for a head of lettuce or $3.00 for one tomato, I know that necessity breeds innovation. Should the aforementioned industries fall on hard times due to a lack of immigrant labor, there will no doubt arise out of modern technology, a new method of picking our crops that will not require the efforts of the mass of illegal humanity. The other industries that currently employ vast numbers of illegal immigrants will simply have to start paying better wages to attract legal employees.
Was it not the invention of the Cotton Gin that saved the cotton industry in the early 1800’s? Was not the speed of laying railway track improved dramatically by the use of railcar-mounted cranes, thus relinquishing the need for so many laborers? There is no problem faced by American industry that cannot be overcome by American ingenuity; but first, we must create a need. (Continued in Industries Built on Lawlessness, Part 4)
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +2 points
To create that need, we must choose now to strengthen and enforce our laws against those who elect to violate them; if we fail to do so, it shall be more than our economy that will crumble. A nation that chooses to blatantly and consistently disobey its own laws deserves the eventual outcome: a state of anarchy or total demise.
Which do you prefer, higher prices for a time or our nation’s self-destruction?
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
With the exception of spies, no one ever thought of trying to sneak or illegally immigrate into the Soviet Union, for very obvious reasons. Our country, on the other hand, remains the one to which people from every other nation on this planet seem determined to enter, whether legally or illegally. Keeping that thought in mind, we, as a nation, must, at some point, come to the understanding that there will never be a time, as long as the United States continues to epitomize what others see as the “Land of Opportunity”, when we will not be faced with the problem of illegal immigration. To paraphrase the line from “The Field of Dreams”, “If we remain the same, they will come!”
That last statement begs a question: “Should we change?” Should the United States alter itself in such a way that the allure which calls to so many would diminish or completely disappear? The answer, I believe, is quite simply, “Sort of!” (Continued in Solving Illegal Immigration, Part 2)
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
Yes, I do believe that this nation must change, but not in the way you might think. The fact that we are a “land of opportunity” must never change; neither should the hope for freedom or prosperity diminish for those who rightly call this nation their home. However, what must change, the issues that I believe are causing the majority of the problems we now face, is our loose relationship with ethical behavior and the rule of law.
In order to abide by the tenets of our Constitution, we can never become a land of fences and walls, a land where few are welcome. Illegal immigration continues to trouble this nation, not because our borders are porous, but because our laws resemble Swiss cheese – they have far too many holes in them. Couple that with the fact that our elected officials, as well as those who elected them, cannot, or will not uphold the standards of ethical behavior to which they have sworn an allegiance. (Continued in Solving Illegal Immigration, Part 3)
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
It does not matter what type of law Congress passes regarding the immigration issue (enforcement first or comprehensive), nothing will work until the people of this nation decide that the most important facet of our national identity, the one thing that makes us so different from all other nations, the fact that we are a ‘nation of laws’, be re-enforced at all levels of our society.
Do we not already have laws on the books that make it illegal for someone to enter this land without a visa or passport? Are there not laws that would punish those who hire illegal immigrants? Of course there are! The problem is that we, for some reason, have chosen not to enforce them in a consistent manner, one that would dissuade the perpetrators of these crimes from continuing their unlawful behavior. (Continued in Solving Illegal Immigration, Part 4)
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
Yes, we must change; change the way we view ourselves and our laws. Ask yourself, “Are we a people who truly love this land?” If so, we must, now and forever, choose to support and defend the Constitution of the United States by requiring that the laws created to protect our way of life be enforced and supported all levels of government, whether federal, state, or local. If we fail in this endeavor, if we choose not to defend and obey the rule of law, then very soon, we will see the end of the “Land of Opportunity”.
“Choose now, and choose wisely!”
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 3/29/09 - 4/1/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
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