Oh bloody brilliant Mr. President. Another wonderful move designed to instill confidence and make America richer and more secure, only this time you can’t come back a year later – like with the steel tariffs – and say, “so solly, big mistake.”
Gee, what do you do with tens of thousands of “undocumented aliens?” In my day they called them “illegal immigrants” and they treated them as what they are, common criminals. That means jail, deportation, pretty much whatever we want to do with them. Talk about breaking a sacred trust. We Americans have welcomed people from all over the world throughout our entire existence. In return we ask only one thing: obey the rules. Now we’ve got an entire class of people who haven’t obeyed the rules, likely aren’t obeying the rules and we’re about to reward them with the greatest prize in the entire world: American Citizenship. Gee folks, how much responsibility do you want to extend to people who have already demonstrated their ability to lie, cheat and steal to get what they want?
So why do it? Apparently the best reason anyone can come up with is that they’ll do jobs Americans aren’t willing to do. Say what? How is it that we hover around 5% unemployment if there are jobs that need doing? How on earth can there be jobs Americans are unwilling to do? How do those oh-so-picky Americans survive? What do they do for a living?
Dollars to donuts they suckle at Uncle Sam’s expansive teat. How hard would it be to say to those people, “Hey, you think you’re too good to sweep floors at Wal-Mart for five bucks an hour? Let’s see how you do with ZERO income. Take your pick, either get arrested and be a leech on society that way or puncture your pride and start working your way up the ranks like everyone else.”
I generally don’t believe in the whole “giveaways to big business” conspiracy but aside from pandering to an ever-growing hispanic population who can’t be bought for the GOP anyway I can’t see any other explanation for this spectacularly idiotic move. I guess Wal-Mart can’t just increase the cost of y-fronts by another dollar and be able to pay folks a decent wage. Hell, it’s not like there’s any competition left. Pity.