Once again our elected officials are doing their best to pass the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Forget the fact that the media has been telling us in one story that the bill is dead, and in the next story how it's been resurrected. Obviously congress thinks we're all stupid, if something is dead, it's dead. Dead things don't just hop up out of their coffins and run a marathon, but that's what they want us to believe happens in the magical fairy land that is the US Congress.
I guess I'm just not smart enough to figure out how this bill is good for America. I know it says "immigration reform", and that most people look at the word "reform" and think "better" (or "more gooder" if you went to public school), but I don't see it that way. If your car gets run over by a monster truck, it's reformed, but is that a good reform? If I run you through a wood chipper, you've been reformed, but would you call that a good reform?
Let's just look at one item in this bill and see what we can make out of it. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a calculator. There were only about 350 million people in this country at the time of the last census. I've heard estimates of somewhere between twelve and thirty million illegal invaders are actually in our country. If we allow each one of them to bring in 11 of their family, that's somewhere in the range of 144-360 million instant voters. If we import that many instant voters, we've basically brought in a new majority that will run this country (and those of us here) as they see fit.
I've heard people say that the illegals are here to do jobs Americans won't do, but who do you think is going to be picking lettuce when they are the majority? Do you think they'll continue to take the lowest paying jobs when they have the political power to vote the rest of us into servitude? Nope, the current American citizens will be the ones working two or three jobs so we can pay enough taxes to support the new majority.
If that bill passes, we'll have been taken over by Mexico without a shot being fired.
Ponder that
Torqued
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I thought about what you said in regards to the word reform… “If I run you through a wood chipper, you've been reformed……” How could this be reforming someone? I’m thinking, Torque is off on this one and is not making any sense. So I took a closer look at that word. You have a calculator I have a dictionary.
re•form [ri-fawrm]
–noun
the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.
–verb
to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc.
So in regards to immigration reform, by the definition of the word, things must be improving. So the real question is who are they improving for? This like many other things is a matter of perspective. Are things improving for the hard working American that is paying his taxes to support the social handouts created by his government or is it improving for the creators of the social handouts and the people in line to receive them?
So, let’s go back to our individual in the wood chipper. How in the world could a person that was run through a wood chipper be reformed? How is that making them better? Torque is off. Then it came to me, it’s all about perspective. If that person that was run through was say, a child molester, then that’s how it would apply. Run them through a wood chipper, now they are mulch and providing something positive to the world. See it’s all a matter of perspective.
As for your statement…”If that bill passes, we'll have been taken over by Mexico without a shot being fired.” I’ve always heard this statement, but I thought it only would apply to Texas. No they are going for the whole enchilada.
Words have meanings, they are the bullets of the information war that is being fought every day in America. The word "reform" is the Trojan horse of the twenty first century.
The accepted definition of reform in most dictionaries is as you posted, to change something for the better. If we look deeper into the word we find that it's composed of two parts. The root word is "form", which means to construct, produce, or arrange. The prefix to that word is "re-", which means to do it again.
If we use a Thesaurus we can even discover that "reform" is synonymous to the words "change" and "remake". I think most of us can agree that most remakes fall a little short of the originals (two words: Ashley Simpson).
If we take it a step further, one could make the argument that when you see "new and improved" on a package that the product has been reformed. In most cases that means that it doesn't work any better than the original, but it costs half as much to produce (the difference results in huge profits for someone).
Like you say, it's a matter of perspective. Reform is better for someone.
All I know is when we get our "New and Improved", "Remade", and "Reformed" Immigration plan, it's guaranteed to not work any better than what we have, cost twice as much as it should, and put a load of money into someone's pocket.
Torqued
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