Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Bush Snuggles Illegal Aliens

From WorldNetDaily. All right, it's not quite as bad as it sounds. Specifically, the Border Patrol are issuing blankets and heat packs to its border stations--because illegal border crossers don't have sense enough to dress for the weather before they cross.

Now I don't advocate letting someone freeze to death, even for his own mistake, once we've caught him. But I want him sent back. When you put this in the context of Bush's continued misguided efforts to pass an amnesty--yes, amnesty--for those same illegal aliens, it's even less attractive.

Let's have some perspective:

  1. If, as Bush alleges, some Americans won't do certain jobs, that's because we pay people to be slackers and hold out for "more dignified jobs." This must stop. Personally, I prefer Robert J. Ringer's Quick-as-[censored] Full-employment Theory, which states: If you eliminated all the welfare and other such programs today, then the unemployment would find jobs tomorrow--quick as [censored], and without complaining about anything being beneath their dignity. (And what dignity exists in taking a handout from the government?)
  2. Why are farmers still diddling around at every harvest time, looking to gather in their crops by manual labor? Can't they buy enough equipment to get in the harvest using their regular farmhands? Farmers seem to do better forcasting the weather than planning for the harvest!
  3. If some border crosser doesn't have sense enough to prepare for the weather and other hazards of the crossing, then how can he possibly be worth a hoot as a worker? Would someone please explain that?
But the larger point is this: All that Al-Qaeda has to do is salt one saboteur among all those "good-hearted people...coming here to work," and the next story you will hear about is another act of mass murder. Bush needs to think about that--and to tell El Presidente Vicente Fox (as in Crazy As) to stop exporting his poverty problem and start taking some responsibilidad for his own country.