It was clear to me that the seeds of our unemployment
problems were linked to offshoring our manufacturing. At the same time, our decades-long open
border problem brought up to 20 million illegal immigrants into our
workforce. Our systemic hyper-unemployment
problems also been compounded by our continuing to add 1 to 2 million legal
immigrants each year since 1989. Our low
62.5% work participation rate is directly linked to these policies. The recent conversations between DC Democrats
and Demopublicans about doubling our legal immigration numbers and granting
amnesty to our illegal guests resulted in Eric Cantor’s loss.
I doubt that this single event will delay the apartment
building underway to receive 4 million additional legal immigrants each year,
but if another RINO bites the dust, the regional oligarchs and crony developers
may pump the brakes on their transit village and bike lane plans.
We still need a plain talking Reagan-type candidate in
2016 to explain how Obama has systematically destroyed the U.S. economy and the
fiscal stability of the U.S. government.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
The article that prompted this post is below:
An excerpt from National Review's Rich Lowry's weekly op-ed
follows. You can read the full op-ed
here<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/for-cantor-no-amnesty-on-immigration-107753_full.html?print>.
LOWRY: "Anyone who thinks immigration wasn't the
driving issue in Cantor's defeat is whistling past the graveyard...
The seeds of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's shocking
primary loss may have been sown in January. That's when House Republican leaders
insisted on floating a set of immigration principles at the party's retreat as
a gesture toward acting on the Senate Gang of Eight immigration bill. The
principles - misspelled "principals" in an initial draft - were
misbegotten from beginning to end.. The principles helped keep the issue of
immigration alive, and in so doing, lit the long fuse on the stick of dynamite
that ignited in Virginia's 7th Congressional District this week...
The insurgent candidate's opposition to amnesty was part of
a larger anti-Washington and anti-Wall Street working-class message. Brat
constantly linked immigration to jobs and wages. In his closing argument, he
said, 'Cantor continues to work with multinational corporations to boost the
inflow of low-wage guest workers to reduce Virginians' wages and employment
opportunities.' He attacked the Chamber of Commerce and the Business
Roundtable, GOP establishment strongholds. He tweeted out a picture of Cantor
posing with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - an enthusiast for the
importation of more foreign workers - with the caption 'Eric Cantor doesn't
represent you.'
The Brat message is one that all Republicans should heed. If
the GOP is ever going to become identified as the pro-worker party again, it
must oppose flooding the labor market with new, wage-suppressing foreign labor
at the behest of business interests..."
Source: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/for-cantor-no-amnesty-on-immigration-107753_full.html?print
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