Lafayette, November 15 at 1:08 pm

You are free to continue to demonize the people whose desperation to support their families forces them here. You are also free to distort the meaning of my words, ain’t freedom grand?!

I stand by what I posted, and I think any reasonable human being understands my advocacy and your bullshite responses to it.

Cooked by the Chinese!

Peking Duck! Yum!

Dead ducks?

It is time for an update of America’s currency to reflect modern political reality. I suggest a new design for the one-dollar coin, to replace the almost worthless one-dollar bill.

An image of the Republican party is shown on the obverse side of the coin (which is made from worthless metals and backed by nothing more than a pyramid of uncollectable IOUs). Mr GOP (whose full name is Greedy Oligarchic Plutocracy) is portrayed as a cigar smoking round bellied capitalist with his foot resting on the neck of Liberty (remember her? - she used to be on all US coins). Liberty’s clothes have been torn off, she has been beaten, raped and starved, and Mr GOP is about to finish her off with a sharp downward thrust of his heel that will break her neck and crush her windpipe.

On the reverse of the coin is an image of the Democratic party. Ms Democracia is wearing six inch heels, fishnet stockings and a short tight black dress cut low to reveal ample cleavage and curves. She is lounging on a sofa sipping champagne, talking on her cellphone and checking her appointment book. On the wall above the sofa is a sign that reads “Executive Escorts Unlimited / From Wall Street to K Street, From Our Ho’s to Your CEO’s, We Promise Satisfaction 24/7”.

The spineless duck image is a little off-beam. Mr Dionne falsely or naively suggests that Democrats care about the interests of ordinary working American families and that they would do more to promote social and economic fairness and welfare, if only they had the courage of their convictions.

In fact, most Democrats have been actively pursuing the only goals that matter to them with relentless enthusiasm, commitment and determination. The reason for the continuing disconnect between goals which the Democrats mouth in public vs the results they achieve is that their stated goals and their true goals are different. Commmentators such as Mr Dionne fail to recognize or refuse to acknowlege the Democrats’ true goals.

The true goals for the vast majority of professional politicians in both American political parties are a cushy well-paid career, secure employment terms and benefits, a nice home in the Washington area, lucrative part-time retirement career options on corporate boards of directors, in public speaking, media, think tanks and academia.

Republicans and Democrats are in exactly the same business, which is advertising/PR agencies. The two parties compete in a market where there is only one client whose account is worth winning, because only that one client is rich enough to provide the cushy careers and fancy salaries our politicians desire for themselves.

This single client is the global financial/corporate/military ruling class, whose epicenter is Wall Street. Corporate America’s over-priced products never change: on the outside are brightly colored packages with labels such as “Democracy”, “The Greatest Country in the World”, “Support Our Troops” and “The American Dream”.

Inside the bright package is the real product: endless war; destruction of American industry; outsourcing; union-busting; usury; consumer fraud; consumer and government debt; destruction of public education; neglect of infrastructure; poverty with no safety net; mass imprisonment; and an ever-greater share of wealth and power held by a tiny minority who can afford to buy for themselves what a failed state cannot: private education, private gated communities, private security guards, private healthcare, private jets.     

Democrats compete with the Republicans for the advertising/PR contract for corporate America’s next ad campaign. Corporate America, through its media subsidiaries, constantly monitors and manipulates the public mood and changes the slant of its ad campaign from time to time. When they decide to change the ad campaign, they switch to backing the other party for an election cycle or two.

Democrats get Corporate America’s ad campaign dollars when the fashion gurus decide that the new fall color is going to be “Equality” or “Access to Higher Education”. The Republicans get the campaign dollars when those same gurus decide that the new fashion is going to be “Lower Taxes” or “Individual Responsibility”.

Our elections are all about which package sells better this year. But look inside, and it’s all the same old $#^+.

G.A.
“when you had majorities, in both houses, and your paralyzed by your own poetry. And you’ve blown it, totatlly, let down everyone, and still seem to be sucking on your thumb, then it’s a little late in the day…”

you know, sometimes i just wonder if it’s all just going according to plan.

When I saw the title on my newsreader, I thought, oh boy another talking head about to buck Obummer up, to get him to show his manhood by daring him to touch that 3rd rail and talk about the sacrifices that need to be made, let’s cut social security.

I guess E.J. held his wet finger up and tested the wind.

I suspect that post will be his next.

(D)ionne (possessed of a liberal’s ill logic) thinks the lame-duck Congress should quickly:

1) Modestly reduce the compensation for hedge fund crimes.

2) Provide gays with a license to openly commit war crimes.

3) Fulfill the Pentagon’s immigrant recruitment quota dreams.

4) Pack courts and appointments with the people liberally equipped to better deceive.

5) Maintain unemployment, instead of providing societally useful employment.

When the Democrat faction of the corporate party is in the minority, it then claims that it can’t do any good unless more Democrats are elected. But, when the Democrat faction of the corporate party has full control of Congress and the Executive, it still claims that it’s those recalcitrant Republican corporate party partners who won’t allow any good to be done. If all of government had but one Republican standing alone, the Democrats would still be claiming that it was that one lone Republican who was keeping any good from being done.

Democrats don’t do the good they could when they can because Democrats have no intention for government to provide the good that it could.

It’s misdirection to claim that Democrats are spineless. Democrats have very strong and resilient spines… constructed of the most durable deceits.

“dems being spineless” about what? and not obeying constitution-laws of u.s?
and dems existing apart from repubs? or isn’t all that one big happy family? well
taken care of? getting health-,dental-,pension-care?
none losing homes? all getting excellent jobs after being deselected for office.
in short, creme de la creme, being spineless. more cld be said. tnx

A Lame and Spineless Duck?, it’s funny, the first thing that came to mind was President Barak Obama…

when you had majorities, in both houses, and your paralyzed by your own poetry. And you’ve blown it, totatlly, let down everyone, and still seem to be sucking on your thumb, then it’s a little late in the day…

Those lying theiving nasty greedy bastard Republicans, have plenty of spine, exept it’s pointed in the wrong direction.

I suggest you take a long look in the mirror before you hurl chunks of epithets, out there…you never know who their going to stick to..

Few businesses using feds’ E-Verify tool to check workers’ immigration status

Maybe they need an incentive, like three strikes and you’re out (to a jail sentence) for (1) hiring illegal migrants and (2) paying slave-wages - length of tenure depending upon either or both?

E.J., even Play Doh hardens after a while.

If your current or, perhaps, any future President is going to make any real difference, then the same individual needs to mean what he/she says, by standing firm on his/her election promises against the routine attacks by the selfish, vested interests now part of the present set-up; The Predident can, by relying on the support of the same people who elected him/her to carry out these long overdue reforms to such a corrupt system which continues to stifle American politics, make a real difference which, in turn, can affect the running and accountability of the business and financial sectors across the Country, by making it work for the common good instead of, as is with the present arrangement, for a select few.

rd: That our immigration policies are convoluted and overly complex,as well as very expensive, leading to waits of years and years is an obvious point. But so is the point that many who choose the illegal path come here because they cannot support their families any other way.

Correct, the people who arrive are truly in need and some desperate.

But the world’s population in this category is easily put at about 500 million. So, you are suggesting that the game is for migrants to simply step-foot on American soil and, abracadbra, a migrant become an immigrant (nationalized thus eventual immigration is automatic?

Meaning the process to the status of citizenship is automatic, since “illegal immigration” is a misnomer. Right?  Because you have obviously not got a dictionary and cannot tell the difference between a migrant and an immigrant.

Or, worse, perhaps you simply do not care to make the difference. They all look the same, don’t they?

In large part this is a direct cause of American multinationals wrecking the economy of their home nations.

Piffle. Substantiate that statement by which, first, this is true and, second, the wanton destruction of, say, mineral rights in their country gives migrants automatic preference for American citizenship.

That sequence of thought is illogical. It is also tantamount to the sort of Bleeding Heart rhetoric that gives Social Democrats a bad name.

I wonder how many align themselves with a call to post employment lists in foreign embassies and consulates as any sort of solution rather a creating of a permanent underclass,

Keep wondering. This is mindless nonsense.

What permanent underclass? In the US or in their home countries?

In the US, there would be no “permanent underclass” if policing were effective and those who hired them at sweat-shop wages went to jail. The legal matter, in this instance is clear; usually the wage is far, far below the American minimum-wage and therefore an offense – but not a penal offense unfortunately.

Such wages are pure exploitation and can be assimilated with slave-trade practices.

But, what can you do ... the US signed the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1947 but the Senate never ratified the treaty.

So, there is no legal framework that protects illegal immigrants in the US. (Read Article 4 of the UN Declaration linked above.) They can effectively be put out without due process of law. The US does make an exception for wartime refugees but none for economic refugees—which present illegal migrants are.

For all the talk about Rights in the US, Human Rights are rarely on the political agenda.

Current Democrats, including Obama, seem to have never held a belief that isn’t negotiable. They make a huge noise for months about drawing a line on this issue or that and then immediately cave in at the first objection from Reps. This happens time and time again.
And then, their idea of damage control, snipe at progressives for expecting anything in the first place.
Well, I think they have us trained at this point.

whether Democrats have spines made of Play-Doh, and whether President Obama has decided to pretend that capitulation is conciliation.
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Oh, they’ll capitulate. The Democrats in Washington are on the road to an even bigger loss in 2012, because they are giving up and turning our government over to a Republican party dominated by its racist, fascist and elitist factors, who want us all to be Christian drones, milked for all our money so a wealthy few can live in splendor.

E.J. has finally figured it out: Reid, Obama and Pelosi are tone-deaf and STILL have no idea how to combat the “no-holds-barred” approach of the GOP.

There’s an old saying about couples and relationships: The one who controls the relationship is the one who has less to lose.  I amend that to: the one who CONVINCES the other he/she has less to lose.

Our democratic leaders are cowards and fools. Our republican leaders are determined to destroy our democracy.

Whoa!Horsey!

Let’s first make the distinction between immigrants and migrants. The former come to stay and become citizens, the latter come and go simply to work occasionally.

Speaking of horses..I cannot help but think this sentence constructed of a certain horse bi-product. That entering this nation illegally is both an expensive and often dangerous operation, as the numbers of bodies found in the deserts of our southern border prove, would seemingly negate the offhanded description of folks who come here casually, to work or perhaps not ( shopping perhaps?).

That our immigration policies are convoluted and overly complex,as well as very expensive, leading to waits of years and years is an obvious point. But so is the point that many who choose the illegal path come here because they cannot support their families any other way. In large part this is a direct cause of American multinationals wrecking the economy of their home nations. In fact, the illegal hiring by corporations is a chief factor in the flood of illegals employed here.

The seemingly disparaging tone of that poster’s attitude towards desperate folks who , in very large part, are decent and hard working people sparks my response. It is silly to deny that we have a problem, what with an estimated 12-14 million illegals here currently. But any solution requires placing the blame accurately and such statements as that to which I object is certainly avoiding that necessity I think.

I wonder how many align themselves with a call to post employment lists in foreign embassies and consulates as any sort of solution rather a creating of a permanent underclass, sanctioned by govt and eagerly sought after by corporations seeking cheap labor easily controlled?

Immigration built this nation, immigration continues to enrich our culture and our lifes blood as well with infusions of hard working folks eager to create new lives and chase the American dream. It is important that we do not continue to take steps that have turned this dream into a nightmare.

THE CONFUSION BETWEEN MIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS

Dionne: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid came out on top in a bruising re-election campaign partly because of strong support from Latino voters. He promised to bring up the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who arrived here as children if they attend college or join the military. Reid should keep his promise.

Whoa!Horsey!

Let’s first make the distinction between immigrants and migrants. The former come to stay and become citizens, the latter come and go simply to work occasionally.

Immigrants need to prove their “suitability” for citizenship, which is not like scoring in football just because a player has got through to the end-zone. Immigration is not a sport, it’s a long process aimed at determining suitability for citizenship.

Citizenship is the sovereign privilege of a nation, which makes the rules there to. If any nation wants to manage properly migrants upon its soil, then illegal migration must remain illegal. (Immigrants are “made” and remain migrants until they have performed the required processing for suitability.)

There is little doubt that America needs migrants, but legal migrants. How are these obtained? Easy:
* Immigration authorities poll various industries towards determining their labor needs (and justifying their inability to find the right personnel locally).
* Immigration authorites establish lists of “work openings” and posts them to tall foreign embassies/consulates.
* Foreigner candidates are interviewed and selected for migrant visa work permits by diplomatic staff in their country of origin .
* They enter the country with legal migrant work visas and, after a period of time, during which their aptitude for the work and if they have no serious criminal activity, they return to their home country to receive a Green Card.
* Like everybody else today, migrants follow the established process from Green Card to Citizenship, thus becoming immigrants.

Our country should not make citizens of illegal migrants who perform mercenary services to the nation. Military duty should be for only American citizens and it should remain voluntary.

The Illegal Migrant Problem is easily solved: Here’s how, by means of police work:
* Police surveillance of areas known for illegal immigrant hiring.
* Jail (for criminal offense) those who hire illegal immigrants (without the right documentation)—as do other countries who are facing the same problem.
* Continue to deport illegal immigrants, indicating to them how to go about becoming candidates, in their home country, for migrant work.

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