Because it's owed to them, doncha know.The Ferguson punks who looted and burned to the ground dozens of stores during the Mike Brown riots in August and November are demanding that those businesses rebuild those wrecked stores, OR ELSE.And of course the Progressive media laps it up and blames YOU.CBS interviewed three of these fine youths in Ferguson, Missouri this week. One protester “Gunny” warned city officials:“To be honest, if they don’t come and restore these neighborhoods for these people, like when you gotta go travel miles to Walmart and to get gas and stuff like that, it should be right here. If they don’t restore this community for people who stay here it’s gonna be hell to pay…”
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Taking the definition of absurd to heretofore unknown levels
How's this for an economic-development strategy?
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Property damage due to riots is generally covered, but if the past is prologue, many businesses will not rebuild there. I note that your linked article blames Obama for bringing illegals in in record numbers. Wow! Not a single one of them would have come here if someone didn't pay them (peanuts, relatively speaking). Reagan signed reform legislation way back in '86. You can carp all you want about meager enforcement, the main reason it did not work was that "Da Man" kept on hiring them. It's all for "Da Man." dontcha know?
ReplyDelete"So the 1986 law didn't work? Not quite. The number of unauthorized immigrants in the country rose from roughly 5 million in 1986 to 11.1 million today. Part of that was due to flimsy enforcement measures. But a major conceptual flaw in the bill, says Doris Meissner, was that the authors of the bill simply misjudged the high demand for immigrant labor in the United States. "Congress didn't foresee at the time that employers would want more immigrants in the years ahead," Meissner says. As a result, the law never set up a good process to provide as many legal immigrants as the labor markets would demand in the years ahead. That meant that after the 1986 reform passed, there was a bottleneck for legal immigration and weak rules against illicit hiring. Given the still-high demand for foreign labor, the end result was, predictably, a boom in illegal immigration."
Da man can't have his cake and eat it too, can he?
P.S. "Da Man" does not exist. "He" is metaphorical. Every farm worker and other sub human knows this, even if you don't.
Read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/30/in-1986-congress-tried-to-solve-immigration-why-didnt-it-work/
Your constant reference to some kind of mythical "Da Man" is juvenile and delusional in the extreme. It's evidence that you have swallowed the hard-left propaganda that there is some powerful elite class that controls American economic life.
ReplyDeleteI am on record, as are most conservatives, as saying the 1986 amnesty was ill-advised. You also clearly have not taken the time to inform yourself of the current rift in the Republican party between the Chamber of Commerce / Jeb Bush / WSJ op-ed page wing that does indeed want a supply of cheap labor and the conservative wing that wants fealty to the rule of law and the preservation of American culture.
Time to read up on what's really going on.
Nothing you say changes the fact that these illegals would not be here if somebody was not paying them for their hard work at low wages.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why us conservatives are fighting ferociously to put a stop to it.
ReplyDeleteI never said you weren't, did I?
ReplyDeleteWell, this leads to something I wind up asking a lot in these situations. Your emphasis in your original comment is rather tangential to the main point of the post, is it not? How about addressing the rioters' threats about rebuilding?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, just referring to a paragraph in your linked article. I have to cite the one before it to have it make sense. I thought I was agreeing with your point in the 1st paragraphs of you response. These threats from young punks who will never be anything close to becoming any kind of "man" do not scare me. They do not have the power to do anything but shit in their own mess kid.
ReplyDelete"A truly sad irony comes when the “former gang member” and “mediator between gangs and police” demanded jobs for “painting” and “cutting grass” for Black youth in the area. “Bring us to those jobs”.
Does he not realize that those jobs are done increasingly by the same illegal aliens that his hero Barack Obama is bringing in at record numbers, while at the same time dismantling workplace and border enforcement?"
See, you can spell out what you really mean. But it really is time to give up this notion that there is some kind of uber-class that exercises "the real authority and power in this country" by virtue of its money and institutional entrenchment. Middle-class small-business owners create a lot more jobs than big banks or even big manufacturing companies.
ReplyDeleteSure, they hire illegals. That's why we have a problem.
ReplyDeleteWhy else would the 11 Million be here? I cannot think of why else, but perhaps in your supreme conservative wisdom, you can enlighten me.
ReplyDeleteA good argument can be made that the Africans would not be here either but for da man
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