I got this from a friend, who shall remain nameless, since he holds public office. It is from a 1907 speech by Teddy Roosevelt. Sound familiar?
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
This was right about the time both my grandfathers came from Italy. They worked, paid their taxes, and learned English. This was a time where nothing in their lives was a given. No free health care, no welfare - nothing. It's ironic that exactly 100 years later, that the argument is exactly the same, but it sounds so much worse now. Why? Because too much is given to illegal aliens.
America is getting fat, happy and lazy. Work is not expected from anyone, and innovation is frowned upon by government. It appears that by the end of my generation, we will turn into a welfare state, and America will no longer be the world power it once was. Count on it....
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My son Sumter and I had lunch today in Asheville North Carolina before we split from on our way back from skiing.
We stopped at Don Pablos not my favorite place but the Cracker B
arrell next door was a line waiting. The last thing I needed and eating at the Mexican place I should had waited in line at the Cracker not one of my favorites etiher. Anyway at this Mexican restaurant the only Mexican was cleaning the table and guess what she could not speak English how do I know I tried to speake to her. Is this wrong or what.
Bread and circuses for the citizens of Imperial Rome... we've no Varangian guard, yet. Mike thinking back it seems that benevolent despots make it so much easier, since you don't have to decide who should rule, they continue to buy the loyalty of the masses by meeting most of their needs and the masses surrender more of their rights.
Change a Roman example to today, with an army of uneducated peasants swarming across a porous border carrying home the capital that the Asian, Irish, Italian and other wave elected to sow into their own businesses and add a racist political slant with La Rasa, that follows the similar delusions to those Galtieri sold Argentina about the Malvinas.
They've no grasp of the fact that Silicon Valley's value is intellectual capital and is not intrisic to the area and isn't harvested by stoop labour.
Maybe, just maybe, if we cut Mexico and the rest of Latin America's foregin aid by an amount commensurate with the benefits paid out to their illegals in the US, it just might rattle them to action.
Got to love WR
Sometimes I have break out a Thesaurus for his posts, but then he'll break out with Fart Humor , so I don't feel so stupid afterwards. Dennis Miller has nothing on him. Yes, the Rhino is our own little treasure....
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