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AZRepublican NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush says that the installation of the new Iraqi government was a "watershed event," but at the same time warns Americans of the challenges and loss as we continue to prosecute the war against Iraqi insurgents. Harry Reid declares that legislation that would render English the national language is racist. Thirty-seven Democrats vote for full amnesty for all illegal aliens in this country, even though nobody really knows whether the number is 11 million, 12 million or 20 million. The Senate Republican leadership demands that a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan must be passed before this Memorial Day weekend. And the president signs into law a tax cut that raises taxes on the educational funds of teenagers saving for college. Never before in our country's history have both the president and Congress been so out of touch with most Americans. Never before have so few of our elected officials and corporate leaders been less willing to commit to the national interest. And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.
View Replies To: AZRepublican Its the new feudalism dressed up as a free market. Part of the Abrahamoff corruption was him paying off Delay to promote a guest worker program like they have on Saipan. Truly disgusting, but then again even the pigs in the novel "Animal Farm" and the humans morphed together.
View Replies To: Huck Well maybe its like this: Do you want amnesty for the millions who are here illegally? no matter what your "class" or economic situation might be, unless, of course, you are profitting from the labor if illegals. Dobbs has it about right on illegals and this commentary nails it pretty good.
View Replies To: AZRepublican And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.
View Replies To: B Knotts Maybe we have a 'classless' society that bears no shame, conscience or integrity? About 40% of our government seems to have 'the lack of'.......
View Replies To: Huck "It's a worthless, meaningless phrase." It might mean something else entirely to those families with "old money" who live off of their investments.
View Replies To: AZRepublican I'm not amazed but very frustrated - it seems they will not accept any answer to the problem of immigration except full amnesty and free everything! I have to return almost 40% of my income to government to fund our schools, roads, health care, etc. but maybe becoming an illegal alien would save me from those taxes. I just want them to work legally and give back to the American economy like the rest of us - could we at least get that? I know assimilation is a long shot but at least support the government that supports you.
View Replies To: taxed2death It's all about perspective. It's an ink blot, not an objective term with a clear meaning. And when you say "living off of investments," does that mean since Steve Forbes has a job, he doesn't fit that description, or does he?
View Replies To: AZRepublican "And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital."
View Replies To: AZRepublican I read the full article... while a lot of it was typical liberal hogwash, a lot of the rest of it was true. Six thousand unarmed National Guardsmen working as adjunct rear support to our undermanned, under-equipped Border Patrol is not border security. Three million illegal aliens continue to cross our borders and depress wages by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The millions of manufacturing and middle-class jobs lost over the last five years have been replaced by lower-wage employment. Sad that I'm agreeing with the Communist News Network, but they're calling a spade a spade when it comes to the immigration debate. Bush's foolish, sophomoric arguments pale in the face of elementary logic, and the Republican Senate is going to be executed at the polls. Unfortunately for America, most of our elected officals are politicians rather than leaders. Unfortunately for conservatives, the people we put in office are ready to sell out both America and their party... all under the idiotic misconception that not offending anyone will somehow help them to keep their jobs in office AND increase their potential voting bloc.
View Replies To: Huck Lou Dobbs has a following, and among that following are those who feel protectionist and/or those who feel the borders are far too open. The most important thing he said is that 37 of 44 Democrat Senators voted FOR amnesty. He went on to note with their photos that Hillary, Feingold, and Kerry all voted for amnesty.
View Replies To: in hoc signo vinces Not that I have ever been a fan, but he's really turning into a kook. None of the things in his article have happened or are happening?
View Replies To: Huck "We don't have classes in our society." Based upon the fact that those in the ruling class operated under a different set of rules I believe it qualifies as a distinct class A couple of other classes come to mind like Hollywierd elite, MSM elite.
View Replies To: kabar I don't know if I'd trust an article by a Sociology professor at a publicly-funded California university, whose sources consist primarily of liberal diatribes (one of which isn't even published yet), as being anywhere near accurate. Only one of his sources has anything close to legitimacy (Federal Reserve), the rest of the article is composed of dubious material, making the assertions based on them dubious as well.
If that person is a 20-something year old whose parents make 150K, is that person still "working poor"? What if his parents help bail him out, let him drive the family truckster, take him on vacations to the Bahamas. How about the free spirit who lives at 9,000 ft somewhere in the Rockies. I can tell from your posts you have a chip on your shoulder about money. Just because you can't put a fine point on it doesn't mean it does not exist. Not only can we not put a fine point on it, we can't even determine what it means or who it applies to.
a 14-17 year old has to have an income that it pretty high to be affected by the new law. The sting is that, as usual, it is night high enough, and as family incomes rise, it will stay the same. Pretty soon the shelter for college will be riddled for people in the middle of the middle class.
View Replies To: Huck No chip on my shoulder about money. My point is this: Just because you discount the "middle classes" as a fallacy does not mean that others do.
View Replies To: Huck Not only can we not put a fine point on it, we can't even determine what it means or who it applies to. In other places, with $200k, you can barely afford rent and food.
View Replies To: kabar On immigration, Lou Dobbs gets it. Lets really unstablize Mexico so the revived communists of South American can add one more nation to their list of USA's enemies. Nothing our enemies would like better than to have a fellow enemy nation share a 2000 mile border with us. When 12 million people who are supporting 24 million Mexicans lose their jobs and are forced home what do you suppose they will do? That would mean 36 million our of 107 million mexicans would be starving. The most likely thing they would do is over throw the government of Mexico. And the new Mexican government will have just one choice to survive as a goverment. That is they would make a deal with our enemies in exchange for economic aid. How about unlimited insurgent access to that 2000 mile long border. Thirty six million starving people would not turn down food to save our but from insurgent attacks. Our enemy list would include the militant Muslims, the resurgent Russians, as well as Castro and Chavez. Just how much mischief do you think they could do with that border. To prevent them from sending thousands of insurgents accross our border we would have to bring the troops home from the middle east. I would have to the worlds longest battle line ...
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