Immigration and Demonstrations....

Well, I predicted that the talking heads would be out in force muddying the issue on the overwhelming showing of immigrants in every major city in the country - I was right! Larry King had a host of divergent views including Frist of the Senate and the Grinch, Rohrbacher of the evil House and all the other "players" including CNN's Lou Dobbs in this game with their posturing.

I was a bit surprised that there was only marginal mention of "homeland security" which is, of course an expensive joke. I suspect that even though every participant claimed that ‘the American people' are behind them, I suspect that the realization is starting to sink in that the American people are not all that worried about big bad bombers sneaking across the border to terrorize the nation, or -- if they are, that big brother is capable of stopping them! After all, remember that ALL of the terrorist participants of 9/11 were LEGAL!

The reason I say that is because we as a nation are, have been, and always will be, totally incapable of preventing the flow of drugs or anything else, so how do we stop illegal immigration aside from legalizing it? - and then, miraculously, it just goes away!

Think about it! If we legalize immigration of Canadians and Mexicans, then they could flow across our borders simply by registering and a simple background check. I'm sure then that all of those who want jobs would do that. Criminals, drug runners and terrorists would then find themselves under closer scrutiny when they attempt to sneak across - rather than simply ‘running with the bulls' across the border.

Lou Dobbs, who I usually agree with - but not this time, thinks that they lower the incomes of the vaunted middle class, but that simply is not true! The middle class in this country is jeopardized by the gradual demise of the unions which were the only entity which created the middle class in the first place - we didn't have one to start with - read your history, cousins! When they are gone, the middle class will disappear and there will only be the very wealthy and the very poor - as it is in so many other 3rd world nations. The problem with Lou Dobbs is that his expertise is in economic theory and not in American history!

I do agree with Lou that the exporting of American jobs overseas to Asian countries also helps destroy the middle class, but certainly that has nothing to do with immigration.

I guess, word got out that the display of Mexican flags was counterproductive because most flags carried about in the demonstrations were American.

I do have one question which probably can't be answered, but I seriously doubt that the hundreds of thousands of people in the demonstrations shown across the country were all illegal immigrants. In fact, I suspect that a large majority were not only legal, but weren't even Mexican!
If my guess is true - we'll soon find out next November!

Of course, everyone seems to be up in arms over the British translation of the Star Spangled Banner into Spanish. I have but two comments on that. First: No one without voice training should attempt to sing the Star Spangled Banner - no, not again, Rosanne! Second: If the words to the song are better understood in Spanish in its reverence to the American flag – what is wrong with that?

We just bought a new washing machine and the instructions came in English, French, Spanish, and probably Swahili. The idea is to present the idea - language is not relevant!