After the Amnesty

First off, if this should ever reach the eyes / ears of Senator McCain ... hear this: the American people know that what you are doing is amnesty, straight up ... and your B.S. spin does not fool anybody. You have proven to the world that you are deranged with that asinine $50/hour to pick lettuce comment ... so perhaps now you realize that we are not the stupid sheep that you think we are. Do you really think that you will be our Presidential nominee in 2008 if your idiotic "leadership" leads to a crushing defeat in 2006 (which it will if your amnesty plan is in fact enacted, God forbid)?

One other thing ... and this is for anybody ... how stupid do you have to be to believe the talk about securing the southern border in any other manner than a big huge wall? Any other method will fail NOT because the method itself is somehow inadequate, but because you are putting your trust in the same bastards that caused this original problem in the first place (the same ones that are absolutely opposed to any REAL measures to stop it now). The border guards are not failing because of this reason or that, in fact they are not failing at all ... they are ineffective because the powers that be have indirectly or directly stopped them. There was this massive roundup in California where they netted hundreds of illegals, and the plan was to literally nab thousands more, it was almost trivially easy ... but then the call came from Washington to shut the operation down.

But I digress ... So, what happens after the amnesty? I just have not heard anybody really talk this through ... maybe some chewing around the sides but nobody actually cutting into it to figure it out.

I think it will literally be a lose-lose-lose-lose for everybody ... and I mean EVERYBODY, including the aliens themselves. The only potential winners in an amnesty plan are the poverty pimps ... generally Democrats that gain and retain power by subjugating this new mass of serfs

ALIENS lose

If the aliens have any type of legal status, their job pool simply dries up and essentially is taken up by the next wave of illegals. Illegals are an advantage to criminal employers for two big reasons ... they take lower wages (but not really all that much lower), BUT THERE ARE NO ADDITIONAL COSTS. For the ignorant masses of this country ... the ones that the politicians count on ... these costs are totally hidden ... most people have no idea as to the absolutely insane (and asinine) costs an employer bears for the employees over and above the wages paid.

Americans lose

Any type of legal status for the aliens will have a devastating effect on just about every aspect of American life. All costs will go up : by definition if the employers have to pay legal wages, they have effectively doubled their personnel costs, and these will be passed on to the consumer. At BEST the heavy burden of the aliens on all of our systems stays the same, but I would guess it actually becomes much worse because nothing really changes for the existing loads (or else as illegals lose their fear, they weigh on the systems even more), and the huge new influx of aliens doubles or triples the load.

Employers lose

The whole point that these criminal enterprises have for employing aliens is lower costs BECAUSE they can avoid many costs of having legal workers. You make the existing employees legal, and those savings go away. As an employer you go out and get a new batch of illegals (along with the associated costs), or else your costs skyrocket and all the associated "supply/demand" forces kick in. This along with all the additional costs of huge tax increases resulting from the stuff already covered puts the employers in a real bad way.


Immediate Solution

The immediate solution to the problem is the wall ... a real, physical wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.

Aliens win ... aliens that are here but still illegal gain an immediate victory in that their competition (other aliens) drops ... end of the inflow.

Americans win ... at the least, we can now have a realistic discussion of what to do. Any other discussion that does not START with an absolute stop to the illegal crossings is purely insanity. All of the secondary benefits ... stop the "piling on" of burdens against our systems, the obvious security dangers, etc.

Mexicans ... frankly who cares ... but at the least you stop the extremely dangerous activities associated with the illegal crossings. Even a Mexican is not going to hike into the middle of a desert if they have no chance of getting across there. This also forces Mexicans and their government to finally fix their amazingly corrupt system at home. I mean really, think about it, can you imagine a more perfect place (potentially) than Mexico??? How many thousands of miles of beach front with a warm climate, and low costs of living? It is a rich petroleum state. If they were not so inept and corrupt it could be turned into a monstrous industrial base ... far more desireable to US interests than China, et al.

Businesses ... again, who cares (since they are operating criminally) ... but again the key thing is that this stops the devastating effects of a mass amnesty and new influx of illegals. Realistically, though ... businesses do not want to be operating criminally ... I don't give a damn what leftie commie rhetoric you hear. They want to be able to compete on an even playing field, so the "wall" at least permits them to start moving back toward the ability to compete with legal workers.



Higher Thought

Ponder this one for a minute ... the liberal, nanny government state is what led to this problem in the first place. There would be very little reason for employers to create this need for illegals if it were not for the amazing costs imposed by the government (to fund a lot of useless programs) against businesses for having employees. In addition, the US has its own ready supply of very low cost workers that we are paying to sit on their asses (when they are not too busy making the next generation of Oprah watchers) with the welfare system.

My idea of a "compromise" on illegals is that you build the wall to stop the influx, then end welfare to "replace" the illegals that either move out or move up.