Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Arlen Specter (R-PA), has introduced legislation that ignores border security and, instead, creates the mother of all guest worker amnesty programs. His bill sets no limits on the number of "guest workers," or the number of American jobs they can take – as if that should even be in question. Specter's committee will be marking up the bill before voting to send it to the floor of the Senate. The Committee on Thursday, March 16 started showing signs that it will produce an immigration bill crafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) that rewards those 12-20 million illegal aliens already in the U.S. with permanent citizenship. Of special interest is the fact they the Judiciary Committee is currently working behind closed doors on amnesty proceedings and the debate will not be made public. It is unclear whether the votes of the committee will be made public.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responsible for the continuing, never ending illegal immigration fiasco are: Republicans: Specter, Hatch, Grassley, DeWine, Sessions, Graham, Cornyn, Brownback, Coburn, and Kyl (AZ) who supports massive guest worker programs in legislation he has already introduced in competition with Senator Specter. Democrats: Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Durbin.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee should be held accountable in the most contentious terms, both for conducting the legislative process behind closed doors in Hillary Clinton-fashion, and ultimately for the actions behind closed doors. In fact, the mere process of conducting these activities outside public scrutiny, trying to avoid individual accountability for selling their vote to anti-American interests, is disgraceful and deserving of unmitigated rebuke. Senator Jon Kyl (AZ) could have refused to participate in anything taking place behind closed doors. He didn’t. Senator Kyl, in continuation of his past style, will likely endorse a massive guest worker program, which will be concealed deep in the fine print of the legislation, and then try to deny the interpretation of the legislation. Brace yourself. If there wasn’t going to be a massive guest worker program, the entire process would not have occurred behind closed doors.

I should urge you to call your Senators and implore them to vote against any bill that includes guest-worker/amnesty programs! But why should I have to? Why should they have to be told? What about enforcing the laws on the books now (and not one of them is willing to do that)?

If you want to call your Senator, follow this link:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

or, if you prefer, the Capitol Switchboard is: 202-224-3121

Red State Patriot

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It would appear from the Secretary of Homeland Security’s statements that the Administration, from the President on down, honestly believes there are only two options in handling the12-20 million illegal aliens in the United States, i.e., either (1) allow all of them to live here permanently, which America is vehemently rejecting, or (2) send them all home next week. Spotlighting the idiocy, as if sending all illegal aliens home next week were somehow feasible, Secretary Michael Chertoff publicly whined that we would need "millions" of agents to round up the aliens and send them home if Congress orders it. One has to hope that isn’t the brightest his bulb is going to get?

Neither option is feasible. Now what?

While both alternative positions are ludicrous, those are the only alternatives the Administration has laid on the table in what looks like a "take it or leave it" gesture. It is as if the President is trying to force both the American public and Congress into foolishly accepting still another massive “guest worker” program that would eventually lead to the American citizenship of all illegal aliens.

America desperately needs someone who is both awake and conscious addressing the illegal immigration issues. Unfortunately, that eliminates all but a handful of Congressmen and every United States Senator.

There is some interesting logic (or lack of it) on display here, maybe comparable to the Harriet Meyers nomination or the Dubai Ports Deal. One hates to point out the obvious from a lowly level in the food-chain, however these are not the only two choices. Anyone who believes these are the only two choices to regain control of illegal immigration must be using some of the illegal drugs coming across the Mexican border or was dropped on their head during childbirth.

It took forty years of Congressional, Presidential, Judicial and Gubernatorial incompetence (which continues today unabated) to get America into this mess. Only an unreasonable, intransigent ideologue fails to realize it will probably take ten years to unravel the mistakes made and regain control of American immigration. The issue centers on what to do in the meantime.

It is critically important to recognize that the Administration and/or Congress and/or any State Governor could have individually or collectively acted to control illegal immigration and none have had the ethical will or a sufficient number of synapses firing to undertake a politically unpopular but necessary patriotic task.

There is a blindingly simple solution. All we have to do is start issuing work permits at our United States Embassies throughout the world. This is absolutely not the suggestion of a guest worker program. Slow down, take a deep breath and think about it. As those individuals with legal work permits issued only in and by a foreign American Embassy, coupled with law enforcement background checks, come into the United States, they will force the illegal migrants - over time – over time - to leave America, return to their homeland in order to get their own work permit. Employers would rather obey the law than break it and if we import laborers on two-year revocable permits, after which they must leave, the problem will be solved - eventually. Not tomorrow, but it would be solved. Those that defy the exit requirements after two years and must be deported will never be allowed to return under any circumstances.

Secondly, any social benefits that States legislatures want to confer on migrant workers (most Americans should object) could easily be limited to those holding valid work permits obtained only from a United States Embassy, only in a foreign country (not obtained in the United States), and only with a current Visa issued by their own nation of domicile, and then work permits would only be issued to those who have registered with the state in which they intend to work - and found acceptable by that state. No valid work permit, no work. Incorporate into the legislation that no court, foreign or domestic, has any oversight responsibility or privilage in migrants seeking work permits.

Any social benefits Courts want to unconstitutionally confer on migrant workers can be controlled by Congressional legislation limiting any benefits what-so-ever only to legal migrants (not illegal aliens). Notice the use of the word “migrants” and not immigrants. Those with work permits are not immigrants. They are migrants seeking jobs. Those seeking immigration would continue to do so using well-established immigration laws. Those with work permits would never be eligible for citizenship without themselves first going home and then going through the immigration process. Two very large benefits from such a plan are, (1) chain migration could be immediately curtailed, and (2) so could anchor babies, saving taxpayers billions of dollars and our state hospitals and healthcare systems from insolvency.

Apparently there is no one in Congress or in the White House bright enough to understand that this third solution, or some variant of it, exists – a solution that is inexpensive, expedient, efficient, and humane and which could be implemented by either Congressional or State legislation or Executive Order.

Maybe there is an ulterior motive to the collective Congressional ignorance – the selling of American citizenship. After all, is there ever a day that an American Congressman or a State Governor is not on sale?

Red State Patriot

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The scale of the current inflation problem can overwhelm visually the price volatility of the earlier years. Indeed, the price history up through the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913 encompasses periods of severe inflation and deflation, with the big price swings tending to offset each other over time. The periods of historical inflation were most intense around wars, including the French-Indian, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Then the United States abandoned the gold standard in 1933.

The late-1970s and early-1980s were the timeframe in which the federal government began addressing the inflation problem by monkeying with the reporting methodology. The dotted red line shows what the CPI would have shown through year-end 2005, without the methodological changes. The difference is based on the impact of the methodological shifts as estimated by the BLS."

This chart not only points out how government data on inflation has been manipulated over the past few decades to portray little or no inflation, it also clearly shows the way our government has chosen to deal with our debt problems -- they are going to try to inflate away the debt.

The way this country is racking up debt can only lead to the conclusion that inflation is part of the plan, as it's impossible to pay back this debt. No amount of taxes will ever come close to paying off the liabilities of the U.S. Indeed, we could all give 100% of our incomes to the government and barely make a dent in the liabilities our government has racked up, as this economist John Williams estimates the U.S. government has a current negative net worth of $34.8 trillion dollars.

The only way to make this debt less onerous is to lower the value of the dollars we owe, and that happens through inflation. This is probably the real reason behind the demise of M3 as a data point.

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