Quote of the Day

Heck, this could be the quote of the month and year:

"There is an emerging hierarchy in the world economy in which the best-paid jobs are clustered in certain nations. If America wants to be a sustainably rich nation with well-paid workers, we must explicitly compete for these jobs.

"This cannot possibbly be a matter of laissez-faire indifference in any society. The fundamental problem with laissez-faire is that it doesn't care who wins.

"And it is impossible to be too blunt about the fact that $5/hr. workers at McDonalds are not going to vote Republican. If we want a conservative society, we need to make sure we have the kind of economic base that will produce Republican voters. End of story."

-Robert Locke

Man, that's so right on.

Technorati tags: patriotism, economics

Gates Sells Whine At Microsoft

It's a sad statement that one of this nation's greatest innovators has joined in our Plutocratic Overlords' quest for cheap labor.

FT.com / World / US & Canada - Gates warns on US immigration curbs
Mr Gates said he felt “deep anxiety” about the US’s ability to remain competitive if it did not act quickly to improve education, invest in basic science research, and reform its immigration ­policies.

The key fallacy here is that if Gates and his greedy globalist cohort get more labor via visa workers there will be no incentive for our bastions of higher learning to improve the educational lot of the average American. More visa slots means more chances to sell higher-priced tuitions to aliens - and that is where they will focus their efforts. Any "improvement" and new investment in research will disproportionately be skewed to benefit the very aliens who would come here on student visas knowing that there was a work visa waiting at the end of their educational journey. It's a closed loop that shuts American kids out. If there had never been a student visa program to begin with, we'd be growing our own engineers and scientist much more capably than we are today.

If the Visa programs were eliminated completely tomorrow, we'd not only start educating more American kids and force colleges to presssure state school systems to improve their results, we'd also stop making people who want to kill us more capable of doing so. When I was in school, there were tons of Iranians on my campus. My bet is that at least some of them are now involved in building nuclearn weapons for Iran. And how come nobody ever points out that Al Quaeda sorts are highly educated, many of whom have had their educations underwritten by the boneheaded leadership of Western nations that now can't seem to figure the proper way to define our war against radical Islam. Who cares if we look less magnanimous to the rest of the world? Does it really make them hate us less if we look helpful?

Uh. No.

It's not as if figuring this stuff out takes a rocket-science-level intellect; in fact, I'm sure that most Congresscritters know exactly the way this crap works. They just won't say it for fear that your knowing would hurt them.

Technorati tags: H1B Visa

How obvious are the agendas here?

Twelve occupants. Seven dead. Politically correct reporting. It would have been reported the same disingenuous way had they hit another van carrying a family of American citizens - no matter how many citizens were killed. And I'll bet anyone dollars to doughnuts that this was a van full of illegal aliens:

7 die as minivan hits big rig in Okla.
The identities of the victims were not immediately released. Philippi said all the van's occupants were residents of Mexico.

Let me take this a step further now. Those five who were not killed are now taking money out of our pockets. We're all paying for their care. No matter how long it takes. No matter how much it costs. We're all stuck with the bill. The agenda is to make sure we don't notice.

On another front, there is some great news:

Success! Illegal alien cop-killer in US custody
In the pre-dawn hours Thursday morning, US deputy marshals and agents of Mexico's Agencia Federal de Investigationes (AFI) delivered fugitive murderer Jorge Arroyo-Garcia to the Orange County California jail in Santa Ana.

Garcia is a vicious fugitive wanted for the murder of Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David March four years ago. Garcia was flown from Mexico City to Tijuana late Wednesday night, where the Marshals and AFI agents turned him over to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Investigators.

Here, I think, the agenda is more subtle. It's great that a scumbag is going to face trial for killing a cop. But I have to say that when I first read this I was more than a bit surprised. Mexico does not ever -NEVER- extradites anyone who might face the death penalty.

Why the sudden change? Why in this case? Could it be that Mexico is working with the open borders goon squad (McCain, Bush, Kennedy) on another McAmnesty? Perhaps they believe their episodic enforcement shows will lessen the outrage over lax immigration enforcement in the minds of a few more citizens? Does this arrest and extradition pony-show work in concert with the Swift Meat raids? Are little tidbits of news re-casting illegal aliens as less of a problem aimed at conning the more gullible among us? Will the made-up-news make some worry less about whether government is capable of managing a new program to document and track 20 million amnestied "guest workers?" Will the "good news" continue to dribble out while Congresscritters deal an incurable blow to the middle class and a rape the hopes and dreams of future generations? Will this raise hope amongst Corporatist disciples of economism and trigger more dollars to flow from the accounts of US Chamber of Commerce members into campaign accounts? Does the possible fulfillment of hope for the most greedy, and least concerned for sovereignty, that the greatest con in the history this American Nation's government will finally be perpetrated for their benefit?

Will the media play along by failing to report the crimes and costs of illegal aliens as evidenced by the minivan vs. big-rig story?

You betcha!

There aren't enough asshats to go around on this one. The ruse mirrors exactly what I'd do were I in charge of marketing amnesty to a public that proves mostly ignorant to the details but has shown a gut-level antipathy for amnesty. I'd put on a show targeted at weakening the resolve of those who don't have the time to pay close attention.

Do ya think I've grown too cynical?

Technorati tags: amnesty, illegal immigration, illegal alien, immigration reform, immigration,Congresscritters, conspiracy, political correctness,

Tinfoil Hatter Alert!

This has to be the most bizarre quote I've posted in 2006:

A Fork in the Road for Food - Alan Hall
"Record-setting enforcement of immigration laws is disturbing the food production system in rural New York State, and elsewhere."

This is so off the wall I have to rephrase it for clarity: Forty years of "record-setting non-enforcement of our nation's laws" has rendered many so addicted to illegally-obtained serf labor that our nation's agricultural special interest groups are impotent to leverage technology and bring to us not only cheaper food, but safer food. You can bet your sweet Taco Bell on it. American High school kids are building fusion reactors in their basements but Big Ag can't think its way out of the middle ages even when many farms are proving quite adept at it.

The whining and moaning of serf addicts spikes at the most meager and pathetic attempts at enforcement. And it usually brings some PhD'd doofus out of the woodwork to bestow victim status on everyone who is at the very least complicit in a vast wink-and-nod conspiracy to break the law. The only way current enforcement efforts are "unprecedented" is that there is a difference between a 0.00000% level and a 0.00001% level of adequate enforcement.

This "Alan Hall" person may very well be an "Associate Professor of Work, Criminology, Health, & Rural Sociology" at the University of Windsor. (I did a bit of Googling and found the professor has written on organic farming in the past, so this connection, I think, is fairly strong.) Please do read the whole article he wrote, it's good for a few laughs. He quotes freely from a New York Times article reposted at a notorious blog of record for moonbats, Truthout.org, but he does not give attribution in the article...when he is using quotations! Why am I not surprised this guy's a professor?

The web site this bizarre blather appears at is a strange one also. I wonder how many people actually read it? The site is a promoter of an oft-debunked economic theory called the "Elliot Wave Principle," which apparently undergoes modification every time it's prophesied calamity doesn't occur at the date it was supposed to occur. It appears to me that Elliot Wave's followers are sort of like Jehovah's witnesses, buying into new "reasons" devined within its dogma that just happen to be "discovered" as the time for armageddon passes.

Just to know that we've got guys like Alan Hall working for the enemy makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Technorati tags: illegal immigration, economism, immigration reform, immigration, moonbat

"Go Back To Europe, White Man"

A big HT to FreedomFolks

Please watch:

Here's the deal: There are a lot more like him in our midst, folks. And El Presidente Jefe Bush and his merry band of corporatist and leftists, accidentally allied in their support for mass immigration, have no concern for what their open borders plans will do (and even less concern for what they might do) to the prospects of this nation remaining in the first world for future generations of Americans. They would have the majority replaced by more compliant, government-dependent serfs who historically have shown no commitment to individual liberty. Those of us who understand our rights and obligations as citizens are deemed too difficult to deal with by those holding keys to this evil alliance, so replacing us with serfs would be logically preferable.

If you want to know what things would look like if the south had won the civil war, you can see a fairly reasonable facsimilie if you look to the shadow leadership that is managed by influence peddlers on the far left and "free trade trumps all" disciples of economism on the right. The only substantial difference between the importation of slaves and the importation of illegal alien...or amnestied...or guest worker...serfs is that eventually the latter three will gain the franchise in far greater numbers. As their vote begins to form a substantial plurality, they will transmogrify and warp the direction of government. They will give their new overlords more power in exchange for unfettered access to the big nanny state feeding teat, and eventually they will overwhelm our heritage.

I'm committed to stopping the realization of reconquista visions of some horrific post-American America as espoused so succinctly by the bastard in this video. I can only hope, and pray, that there are still enough real Americans left; that is, those who know, have learned, still remember and still believe that our founders intended for this nation to be conservative in its approach to change. The wholesale radicalization of our underpinnings via the continuation of this 40- year mass immigration debacle cannot continue. Those who have come illegally should be compelled via strict enforcement to leave, and those who refuse to go of their own accord should be dealt with most harshly: There should be gigantic catapults stationed at the border and used to send people like the guy in the video back to Mexico.

Technorati tags: hispanic vote,illegal immigration,illegal alien,amnesty, reconquista, economism, immigration reform, immigration

(I'm only kidding about the catapults...or am I?)

Globalization is the enemy

A couple of years ago I published a letter to my daughter that compared the traditional mindset that used to permeate American businesses and corporations and compared it to the contemporary globalist/corporatist model. Twenty years from now I want her to read it; I'm concerned that what made us a great nation that cared for its citizens first will not only be gone but also be forgotten. Or worse, it may be revised out of our books and publications altogether as corporatism and secular humanism consume this world's reality like some virulent, mindless amoeba.

Today, I came across this:

Broken promises: International Herald Tribune

"The new and very recent Anglo- American business orthodoxy dictates the pursuit of profit without regard for social cost or obligation. But as recently as the 1950s in the United States, the "stakeholder" corporate model was generally accepted in business schools and in practice. It holds that while the corporation exists to make profits, it is also responsible for providing secure jobs and just remuneration for its employees, and for advancing the economic interests of the nation and "the good of society."

It clearly is not an outmoded or demonstrably inefficient model, since it is currently widely accepted in Japan. It is, for example, the corporate model followed by the Toyota corporation, the most successful automobile manufacturer in the world. At this moment, the once globally dominant American automobile industry is nearing collapse (and attempting to jettison the last vestige of its own past acceptance of social responsibility, its contractual health- care obligations)."

Note to Katie:

When you are old enough to read and take my efforts here to heart, I pray that there still remains some vestige of the marvelous legacy your ancestors placed in my care for you, your children and your children's children. I'm ashamed to say that I feel as though I've let you all down. But I will not take all of the blame. I came of age and raised you at a time in which lies, obfuscations and deceit have too-much ruled this nation. Moral absolutes are mocked and broken while those of us who still believe such things are prerequisite for human greatness are ignored and punished for speaking out.

The other day a good, Conservative friend said that if he could change anything, he'd make Congress and the Executive Branch relocate every ten years or so. Our leaders live in an insulated fairy-land called "The Beltway." It is to our grave detriment that they just don't get out much. The insulation turns too many of them in to cloistered asshats who are more beholden to soul-less monstrosities we call "Corporations" than they are to flesh-and-blood citizens.

They are building a new religion: Corporatist Secular Humanism. For them there is no past, no legacy, no stewardship and no honor. And there surely is no concern for the greater good for future generations. All they crave the next orgasmic injection of profit without regard for whom they crush to create it. They dumb us down, erode our sovereignty, balkanize us and break us into incoherent distracted masses, then they use political correctness to shut us up if we notice the problems they have fomented.

Don't ever be cowed by these venal bastards. Fight back.

Technorati tags: economism, conservatism, insourcing, offshoring, sovereignty, death of the west, Globalism, Corporatism,