Immigration
I am “remembering the Alamo".
You know, the battle cry when Texicans defeated Mexicans. The U.S. eventually added the Texas star to our flag, but Davie Crockett fought to death at the Alamo and lost that first round.
That was back when the Color-Red-River flowed clear into Mexico. Now the headwaters of the Colorado River are absorbed in the continental U.S. and we ask foreigners to pick crops here as politically-correct slaves. If Americans farmers had less water, we would grow fewer corps, and maybe the migratory-labor issues would resolve themselves.
Resolution for immigration reform: Open floodgates for water South, or field labor North.
Your choice Congress (although I hear Washington will be too busy for the next 18 months).
Either way I predict Americans will ultimately buy food just like we buy everything else, from China, Japan, or Mexico, where labor is cheap. There are ramifications. Dog food example?
Even if foreign food were safe, should we end up dependent on others like we are for oil and cars and electronic gadgets? Even if we accept the dependence, rather than independence this day, migratory wages and products purchased from others shift money out of our nation. Cash from one economy, which end up being spent in another economy, does little good to the economy from which money flows like a river.
Oh sure, business investors profit from the labor of others, but there is no Economics 101 re-investment of dollars which leave our nation. Migratory workers earn in one month here what it takes to live in their home country for a year. And you thought you had it good with one day off for Fourth Of July? Enjoy the Independence for a Day.
This letter has not been edited.
Hell, some don't even work, (just the system)and they make more here than their home country.
Posted by on July 10, 2007 02:43 PMI tried and tried too Mr. Schweitzberger , but I could make no sense of your rant.
Since Mexico, according to US Trade Data (http://tse.export.gov/MapFrameset.aspx?MapPage=NTDMapDisplay.aspx&UniqueURL=hngzmy45bjct0fa0d0r2mlbd-2007-7-10-17-24-38)
is the #2 importer of US goods, your argument that money shipped to Mexico is money out of the US economy is simplistic. In a Global economy, money spent on US goods is wonderful for the US economy, whether those goods are purchased in Canada, Mexico, Brazil or the EU.
What an irritating letter. Threatening people with foreign food phobias (one pet food scare) because the writer wants illegals to remain and be handed amnesty.
If all of China's or other foreign countries food products were tainted, Americans would stop buying it. What about the baby spinich scare?? That came from Mexican workers handling produce right here in the good ole U.S A. In other words ya can't win for losing!!
Schweitzberger contends that we will be buying food from Mexico. If Mexico has enough food to sell, why are we feeding 12- possibly 30 or 40 million of their citizens???
Economists across the nation, including the Heritage Foundation, tells us that it will cost Americans TRILLIONS of dollars in the next twenty years if the illegals stay and work at McDonalds, Jose's Cleaning Services, Big Rich Suck Em Up Construction Co. Illegals Only Maid Services etc,etc. That's economic 101 working right in our faces!!
These people don't just sneak in here to pick our lettuce they also come here to pick our pockets!!!
Illegals think it is their right to commit crimes, overcrowd and dirty up neighborhoods, drive drunk, their culture pats them on the back and encourages drinking. It make them feel macho!!
Then comes the ultimate insult, waving the Mexican flag in our faces!
These are not "nice" people they are arrogant, and ignorant cast offs from a dishonorable and corrupt country that wants the U.S. citizen to educate, house,and provide medical care for it's citizenry.
Close the border immediately then begin job site enforcement, and initiate deportation.
Americans through grass root efforts temporarily stopped amnesty. The Kennedys, Salazars, La Raza's will continue to tack the amnesty parts of the defunct bill onto other senate bills until they have completed their amnesty agenda.
Then they can sit back and laugh and be proud of how they "screwed the people once more"!!
Call the White House opinion line (202) 456-1111 and begin demanding closed borders, job site enforcement, AND deportation!!! Washington D.C. office for ALL senators(202) 224- 3121 keep calling!!!
Posted by A on July 10, 2007 05:00 PMAccording to Mexican school books. The Alamo was defended by oppresive slavce owners. It was Mexicos duty to liberate the slaves from these people. This happened nearly twenty years before the civil war.
Posted by on July 11, 2007 06:36 AM"Texicans defeated Mexicans"
Where I come from Texicans are a combination of Mexican and Texan.
I'm sure the writer meant Texan's, but then he probably would say illegal immigrants of Mexico are actually hispanic! Black is black, white is white while brown is any color the pro illegal activist want it to be just as long it fits the agenda
Imagine Steve's "rant" as Mayor of Denver for which he once was an aspirant.
Posted by Richard Grimes r22037@yahoo.com on July 11, 2007 09:44 AMLotsa talk,zero action -if you don't like what's going on,go burn a Mexican flag at the next immigration rally.There'll be one soon.
Posted by Jimminy on July 11, 2007 09:51 AMFor DAN2 - if globalization is so wonderful, why is the trade deficit growing the more we offshore? Fact is, every country we offshore to 'protects' it citizen workforce in some way or another - tariffs on what for them are foreign made goods, manipulation of how their currency converts to US dollars, rules (eg: in Canada to be a contractor, you must be a Canadian resident; in Mexico, businesses must be at least 51% Mexican owned, etc). I suggest you read "The Establishment Rethinks Globalization" at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070430/greider - or get the book
"Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests" by Ralph Gomory & William Baumol (the first is a retired IBM VP, the 2nd is a Nobel-prize nominated economist) - and -by the way, this book was written 7 years ago.
The same folks that benefit from offshoring also benefit from an illegal immigrant work force - both of which depress US wages. I am a big fan of Arizona's new "2 strikes and you're out" law for businesses that hire illegals (the business is shut down for a week the first time they are caught & lose their state business license the 2nd time). This would be a citizen ballot initiative in Colorado that I would support.
Posted by Mary on July 11, 2007 11:29 AM