George W. Bush has done it again.
Not satisfied at having sent 500 American soldiers, a number that will only increase, to their deaths in a war that was built on lies, greed, and a fundamentalist insanity reminiscent of the followers of the Mahdi, the Defender of the Faith has now come up with a plan that will basically provide amnesty for the 8 million plus illegal immigrants in the United States.
Apparently Richard Nixon’s much maligned “Southern Strategy” has been morphed to include all points south of the Rio Grande.
The President may contend that. “This administration is firmly against blanket amnesty,” but really, when was the last time anyone in this administration wasn’t speaking with a forked tongue? Whether the program adopted is outright legalization or merely guest worker status, it is safe to bet that the vast majority of the illegal immigrants will go on to become American citizens.
Who says crime doesn’t pay?
So, what does it all mean? Bush has said that “We need to have an immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee,” which sounds more like a government sponsored cheap labor fund for large corporations (funny, and I used to think the Democrats were the party tied with advocating inexpensive, plentiful third world labor). Well, much like his call for a “humbler foreign policy,” something that also was complete nonsense if the claims of former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill are to be believed, it seems that Bush thinks a liberal amount of government intervention in the economy also is an important pillar for a constitutional society.
This latest amnesty just about hammers the last nail into the coffin of blue collar America. Already forced to compete with foreigners who will do the same job, but for a fourth of the pay, America’s working class will now face close to 8 million newly legalized workers, who will do for $6 what they did for $12.
In all truth, it looks more and more certain that the United States will become the two societies that liberals have warned us about for years; that of a wealthy, intellectual and political
elite and basically an assortment of lower end drones, whose function in life is to produce and consume, preferably in front of the television.
Culturally, and this is all the more damning to a traditionalist view, America will once again be changed. The country as a whole will continue further down the road to looking like California and Texas, which, I suppose, is perhaps a plus if you approve of the changes that have occurred in those states since the Immigration Act of 1965. If you prefer your state to look like, say, Louisiana, well perhaps soon all you’ll have left is memories.
Lastly, I can’t understand how this makes any sense for Bush or for the Republican party. The Republicans are the party, by and large, of rural and suburban white people, whereas the Democrats tend to rely on non-whites and urban whites for their votes. Now given that the president doesn’t read much (he has in the past claimed to have the news prepared for him in digests), it is quite possible that some of his advisers have slipped and told him that efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigrants are useless, and, perhaps, by legalizing them he can get them to vote Republican.
Then again, I prefer my explanation, which is that George W. Bush is an uncultured imbecile and the moral equivalent of the village idiot who takes a leak in the community well.
Like the village idiot, he isn’t truly malignant, just extremely dull. The only problem is, George W. Bush is the most powerful man in the world, and, with the stroke of a pen, can alter our lives.