Congress Declares War On Americans

Cheap labor. Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about – supposedly businesses don’t want to pay a decent wage? That’s what Congress wants you to believe. Well, don’t believe everything you think.

The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth. There is no such thing as "cheap labor." Anybody that uses the term in reference to the ongoing crisis of illegal alien migration is either painfully ignorant or thinks you are pathetically stupid. In any event, you should probably find someone else to talk to.

Take, for example, a migrant family with a husband, a wife and five children. Nobody in this extended family has an education beyond 8th grade. Only his young children speak English which they learned in American public schools, and three of his five children will drop out of high school. The two who do graduate will possess little that resembles an education. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00 an hour if he is “on-the-books” or $8 to $10 an hour if he is “off-the-books.” If our hypothetical migrant husband has any skills, such as electrical, construction, plumbing, or landscape irrigation systems, he typically works for $12-15 per hour on- or off-the-books.

In any event, assume he is a legal alien. He claims six dependents and reports only his “on-books income.” Since only the top 50% of all wage earners in the United States pay income taxes, he pays none. In fact, because he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an “earned income tax credit” cash rebate from the government up to $3200.00 – free. He qualifies for Section 8 (low income) housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps, in-state tuition, free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care and medication, and his children get free breakfasts and lunches at school. He is entitled to bilingual teachers and books; he qualifies for relief from high energy bills, and if old, blind or disabled he qualifies for SSI and Medicare, otherwise Medicaid - all this at the expense of Americans who do pay taxes. If you report more than $30,000 a year of joint income to the IRS, that includes you. He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance or homeowner’s insurance. American taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material, plus interpreters for any court appearance. Some states even have established dedicated courts for illegal aliens that have been documented to meat out less punishment to an illegal alien than an American citizen for violation of the same laws. Even though citizenship requires a proficiency in English, voting documents are printed in Spanish for someone, for some reason. Certainly, Hispanic non-citizens aren’t voting in American elections. How could that be?

When his benefits are added together, he and his family receive the equivalent of (drum roll please) $30 per hour just in benefits. Working Americans are lucky to have $5 or $6 per hour left after paying both their own bills and his. Working Americans also pay for schools, roads, sewage, electricity, garbage pickup, water and gas, plus taxes to cover the expenses of increased crime, courts, incarceration, bureaucratic manpower and graffiti. This migrant family has probably been here for 5+ years and has no intention of earning citizenship. In fact, much of their income is sent or carried back across the border to support extended families in Mexico or other parts of Central America. When opportunity permits they vote in Mexico. By refusing to enforce immigration laws, Congress and the Bush Administration sanction this sad state of affairs. Congress is not just subsidizing legal or illegal aliens; they are proudly subsidizing the entire country and government of Mexico. Speaking of amnesty, many who were granted the ill-conceived amnesty 20 years ago during the Reagan Administration still haven’t earned United States citizenship.

And then there is the illegal alien, complete with fraudulent documents, having committed a mind-numbing string of misdemeanor and felony crimes in just a few short years. Federal and state legislation, and judicial activism, requires that he and his extended family also receive most of the social benefits described above. He reports no income to the IRS. After all, not much of his income stays in the United States. He pays no taxes. In fact, two federal agencies, the IRS and the Social Security Administration, are sitting on millions of names and addresses of people using bogus Social Security numbers, but they’re protecting Americans by keeping that information secret from law enforcement. Ask your congressman why, don’t ask me.

So what is it that qualifies illegal aliens, who represent only 5% of the labor force, as “cheap labor?” First of all, contrary to popular belief, until recently and only a very few states, there is no penalty on employers who replace Americans with illegal aliens at lower pay.

In addition, state legislatures and Congress have spent decades legislating 100 reasons why no business enterprise would want to stay in America, let alone hire any full-time employees. It is Congress and state legislatures that defiantly refuse to reduce or eliminate regulatory and tax burdens on businesses. So business’ flee to India and elsewhere, and if that is not possible, businesses hire as few employees as possible – just enough to stay in business and no more. Employees have become incredibly expensive. The onerous business costs include Social Security, FICA, Worker’s Compensation, Medical Care, retirement plans, product liability, child care, pre-natal care, equal opportunity, disability legislation, affirmative action, gender orientation issues, sexual harassment, garnishment of employee wages for child support or unpaid taxes, OSHA requirements, EPA requirements, and on and on. You can name many more.

The point is that while illegal aliens earn less than the employees they have displaced, it is not a lot less. However, let’s be quick to add, if you’re an American trying to support a family, 10-20% is a lot less at the lower income levels. In fact, there has been so much immigration that the supply of illegal alien workers has become huge. Even the wages of illegal aliens has begun to decrease. It’s elementary supply and demand. Ask yourself this: If the price of anything should go up, not down, when demand is high and supply is limited, why have real wages of Americans been going down for decades? Answer: there are more workers than what are needed for the available supply of jobs. The excess supply is exacerbated by illegal aliens.

If we had a shortage of labor “to do jobs American’s don’t want to do,” like pick lettuce, the price of labor would be going up, not down. The truth is that there is no shortage of Americans willing to do any job, and a huge - no make that gigantic oversupply of illegal aliens looking for a job. Once again, don’t believe everything you think. In fact, the larger issue is that there are not enough jobs to support the combination of American citizens, legal aliens and illegal aliens. Ask your congressman and state legislator why there are so many impediments to business formation and success. Don't ask me, because this article wouldn't end until next week.

Still, there is another issue that is being overlooked. Democrats have traditionally been supported by organized labor, for generations. Why is it that unions are not agitated by the magnitude of illegal immigration? One simple reason is that they have opened their membership to non-citizens. Unions are still getting their millions of dollars in union dues, a growing percentage of which comes from both legal and illegal aliens. So while one would logically think unions would support American workers, once again don’t believe everything you think.

So where is the problem? What is the REAL issue? As you would expect, it is money.

I will say this several different ways to make the point. Illegal aliens don’t create the same high employees costs that legal aliens or American citizens do. When hiring illegal aliens, the employee costs, those costs traditionally paid by the employer, have been shifted from the business to the taxpayers. Business used to provide benefits to Americans and legal aliens, but businesses don’t have to pay benefits to illegal aliens. Illegal aliens are none-the-less getting those benefits, but from government. It is the taxpayers who have picked up the benefit costs of these employees, the cost of which has been assessed to you. As a result, when a business hires illegal aliens, the federal, state, county and city governments are picking up the tab for what was once called "labor" expense, the largest price of doing business, and shifted those labor costs (plus benefit costs) to the American taxpayer. In fact, an illegal alien doesn’t even have to work to be entitled to all the benefits. Think of that.

Many people think Congressmen are outright stupid. I’m sure there are a few genuinely ignorant louts in Congress. However, their staffs are typically “crackerjack” – “top drawer” if you prefer. Even Ted Kennedy’s staff is exceptional, regardless of the fact that the Senator himself is seldom both awake and conscious.

It is reasonable to speculate that, with few exceptions, Congressmen and women know exactly what they are voting for or against, and they know (via their staff) the implications of each and every vote. While you and I see each legislative issue in a framework of short- and long-term benefits or impacts to the country and our citizens, Congress uses an entirely different framework. When considering each and every piece of potential legislation – Congressmen see it through the framework of one single talk-radio station that they all listen to, WIFM (What’s In It For Me?). You and I would call it unmitigated self-interest. We citizens do not look at any issue through the same pair of glasses as a Congressman, nor do we have the opportunity to sell our vote for future income and job security, which guides a congressman’s every waking conscious thought. Make no mistake; except for a handful of principled congressmen, every vote by every U.S. Congressman is auctioned off to the highest bidder. The merit of the legislation has become irrelevant. Congress has become a meat-market of self-interest.

In the arena of ideas, Congress has absolutely no intention of enforcing immigration laws, now or in the future. If you think otherwise, you are the victim of a cruel hoax. Illegal aliens are (1), a source of coveted votes and (2), pro-Hispanic groups are funneling millions and millions of dollars into the campaign bank accounts of open-borders Congressmen. It is only reasonable to suspect some of the money is actually coming from the government of Mexico by a circuitous route, just as history has shown the Chinese government heavily funded the Clinton Administration. There is no other explanation for a Senator, like John “Lettuce” McCain, defiantly acting as if he was a paid agent of the Mexican government. It certainly isn’t patriotism.

Try to forget that the votes of illegal aliens are illegal. Governor Janet Napolitano wants to change all that. After all, she will tell you it is racist to expect personal identification at the voting booth or proof of citizenship. Try to imagine millions of illegal aliens who are dependent on all forms of taxpayer income redistribution, beholding to pro-Hispanic politicians such as Arizona’s Governor, and then picture 20 million new voters.

There are dozens of politicians across the country holding public office today that would not have been elected were it not for illegal votes, i.e., multiple votes, votes by dead people, votes by non-existent people (like Bugs Bunny), votes of convicted felons, votes in more than one state, and votes of illegal aliens. Congress knows, right down to the last man and woman, that they are selling citizenship for votes. And they know there is nothing you can do about it. They are confident you can’t stop them. Both John McCain and President Bush have as much as said so.

Once amnesty has been conferred on these millions of “the least qualified labor in the world,” business will then be expected to pay them a minimum wage (which may be two-tier if they are to be indentured servants, i.e., slaves). Any differential between the lower wages of immigrants and those of Americans will be made up by a truckload of social benefits intended solely for the illegal aliens.

Congress will be quick to tell you that in nirvana everybody will pay taxes. The fact is that few of these migrants (soon to become immigrants) will ever pay a dime in taxes.

President Bush, when with the stroke of his pen he grants amnesty, regardless of the criteria Congress imposes, the legislation will instantly create the intergalactic vacuum necessary to suction the next 20 million of most uneducated and unskilled out of Mexico, Central America and South America. This will happen because those illegal aliens that have been here some time and now have amnesty and immigrant status, are suddenly going to become very expensive to businesses for a number of reasons called benefits. When these newly minted immigrants begin to cost businesses more, because they are now legal, you can be sure that businesses will not be so quick to hire them because they will have to pay government-mandated benefits and conform to government regulations. Instead, businesses will once again turn to newly arriving illegal aliens and the party will continue.

Those who were just consecrated "legal immigrants" will quickly become even more of a taxpayer burden because they too, along with many Americans, will not have any jobs.

Where this all gets interesting is when those Illegal aliens who are eligible to become immigrants have to make a choice between American citizenship and paying taxes, or keep their jobs. Recent history demonstrates that most of the current crop if illegal aliens and their miscreant children have no intention of becoming American citizens, so what do you think their choice will be?

As for President Bush, were you aware that during the 2004 campaign, President Bush secretly mailed a campaign video to Latino voters? The video shows President Bush waving a Mexican flag and saying in his own voice: “About 15 years before the Civil War, much of the American West was northern Mexico. The people who lived there weren’t called Latinos or Hispanics. They were Mexican citizens, until all that land became part of the United States. After that, may of them were treated as foreigners in their own land.” The Los Angeles Times pointed out on 4/2/06 that the President Bush “essentially described millions of Americans who populate his home state as the true foreigners in someone else’s native land.”

If you think illegal migration is bad now, you haven’t seen anything yet. We complain about 12-20 million illegal migrants today. Can you imagine 100 million more in the next twenty years, maybe double that. Well, you had better start thinking about it. Any form of amnesty will be the biggest magnet ever, a dinner bell – come one, come all. To those Republican ideologues who argue that President Bush is not offering amnesty, your quarrel is with the dictionary, not me. Congressmen fail to recognize how close they are to being treated with the same contempt and disdain that they once disgracefully displayed toward American Armed Forces returning from Vietnam.

As for national security and terrorism, five illegal’s who received amnesty in 1986 subsequently participated in the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. The question is only when, not if.

Economically, it’s not the end of the real estate bubble that should concern you, its property values across most communities. You can’t displace (force out) blue collar Americans from their jobs and businesses, and ultimately their homes, and replace them with millions and millions of illegal aliens and expect property to hold its value – anywhere in America.

It is a fact that neither the typical legal or illegal alien, regardless of origin, contributes anything positive to the American culture for two generations except cheap labor (very few exceptions). More prevalent is social unrest, drugs, gangs and crime, often exacerbated by a reluctance or refusal to assimilate, which in turn was caused by too much immigration in the first place. That many immigrants cannot be assimilated all at one time. You simply cannot absorb a bucket of water into a single sponge all at once. Absorption can only happen incrementally, the same with assimilation. When you let the bucket of water become too full, it will become stagnant and dangerous to consume before you can absorb all the water one sponge at a time.

What is needed most is not more, but less immigration of unskilled labor from Mexico and points south, for at least the next twenty years. If no immigration reductions in unskilled and uneducated labor are going to become a reality, as Congress marches on selling citizenship for votes, the price we will have to pay (the price our children will have to pay) will be daunting, enough to crush the economy. But politicians, with the certainty of a rising sun, will solidify their hold on power as members of this nation’s elite ruling class, eventually sequestering themselves in Washington, D.C. and returning less and less often to their home states. Many may even have to seek political sanctuary in other states after completing their term in office.

We are at a pivotal point in American history. We can only go one of two ways. There don’t seem to be any other forks in the road. Either Americans will take back their country and their government, and return to a government of the people and by the people, or we will literally serve a Congressional and Judicial self-anointed ruling class as a member of a borderless North America, eventually governed by the one-world advocates, and the United Nations. Either Americans will angrily restructure Congress to become one of service without expectation of reward, or Congress will continue to restructure us having voted to themselves unlimited power and a place above the law.

We are on the edge. With this societal decision, so goes the economy and possibly our nation.

Until the date that such a choice is made and the decision becomes law, it is important that all Americans recognize that the singular reason immigration legislation is so hotly contested is because what is transpiring before your eyes is literally a contest for power between Congress and the rest of us Americans – from their point of view, them versus us, and they have no intention of losing. Even if no legislation is passed in this session of Congress, Congress and the Administration will steadfastly refuse to enforce existing immigration laws.

Yes, Dorothy, Congress has declared war on Americans. Instead of their serving us, it is their big-picture, long-term intention that we serve them.

By Red State Patriot
June 8, 2006

Posted June 8, 2006 05:14 PM
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