Comments on: There Was a Call On My Answering Machine From Lindsay Graham That Said “Shut Up, Bigot!”

By: AnonymousDrivel

AnonymousDrivel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:39:59 +0000

I hate to keep bringing you down, Preston, but it is happening before our very eyes. The biggest one off the top of my head is the textile industry. It used to be huge, terribly productive, and a vast employer of that legal low to middle class labor pool that so financed much of agrarian America and that could create a desirable, exportable product with long shelf-life. In the span of about a decade, it has virtually disappeared, decimated by capital flight to the cheapest labor corporations can find whether or not the labor pool at the destination subsists beyond hand-to-mouth workers. China is practically the exclusive manufacturer of our imported textiles with end products now trucked in by the nation’s Wal-Marts that need drive prices lower and lower to a social class that has difficulty earning a living wage.

It’s a downward cycle that repeats and serves as microcosm to the whole free trade concept. The middle class that serves as the strength of this nation (that upward mobility you so rightly noted) continues to get pinched.

By: Preston Taylor Holmes

Preston Taylor Holmes — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:03:12 +0000

Drivel, it does seem like they’re trying to expand the lower classes (manual laborers) and export the middle classes (skilled/tech jobs) overseas while keeping the political/royalty classes above the fray and profiting from the whole situation.

I suppose we should go ahead and start working on our strawberry picking skills since most of us are closer to the lower end of that spectrum. It’s a shame, because America used to be the only place on the planet where upward mobility was attainable through hard work (something other than picking lettuce, sorry to say).

It was fun while it lasted.

By: AnonymousDrivel

AnonymousDrivel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:15:44 +0000

Chertoff: “What you will see is a major shift of our businesses, certainly the agriculture business, out of the country, and that that is going to be a very, very bad thing,” he says.

Yes. Let’s work towards importing manual labor and continue exporting the high-tech and heavy industrial/manufacturing jobs through policy that accommodates outsourcing. Because that would be a very, very good thing.

There’s just no end to the dishonesty and idiocy being poured out of these guy’s skulls, but that quote is especially rich in something new: a quest for slavery. Well, publicly subsidized indentured servitude for select business, anyway.

The new, just passed, minimum wage law is supposed to ensure that all of those new legal employees get a nice jump in wages. Oops. There goes that labor savings agri-business so desires. So, with no follow-up enforcement of old law, much less any new ones, a new wave of 20 million illegals will crest as soon as the current shadow dwellers get a tan. Slavemasters unite! Save our lettuce, our nickel, and our plantation!

Perhaps we could pay a coyote to traffic in a new Homeland Security chief from Mexico. It seems to have a much stronger enforcement and border security head and policy than our own (or one that preserves its interests anyway)… doing the job Chertoff and Bush won’t do.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:48:36 +0000

Unabrewer…don’t you want to be a Prick? Stand firm with us!

By: The Unabrewer

The Unabrewer — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:18:08 +0000

I’m done with parties. I’ll stay independent. Voting against Republicans is nothing new to me; I’ve been voting against Mike Castle for a while now. Not that it matters. One of my senators is that asshat Joe Biden, so it really doesn’t matter who I vote for in any election. I’m free to do what I want, any ol’ time.

By: William

William — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:42:08 +0000

Regarding the line from Instapundit: “I’ve often at least sort-of hoped for a third party that would combine the GOP economic-libertarian strands with the Dems’ social-libertarian strands.” – it seems that the closest body to that line of thought is the Libertarian Party. You may want to visit their web site if you are interested in what they have to say.

You will probably find a few disagreeable planks in their platform, however, that would be no different than any other political party.

By: Smantix

Smantix — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:49:06 +0000

Is A’merca ready for a VP who makes Dick Cheney look like Mother Theresa?

I’d like to think so.

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By: Nigel

Nigel — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:55:50 +0000

It's time. Iowahawk for President. Smantix for VP. Cranky for Secretary of the Interior. Preston for the new position of Secretary in charge of forcibly removing all illegal aliens. No more pussies in Washington. It's time for some Pricks.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:16:58 +0000

Best argument I’ve heard (on TV) from a Republican Congresswoman who’s name I missed.

“Your bathtub is running over; do you head for a mop and a bucket or do you turn off the spigot?”

I rest my case.