My faith in the blase’ stupidity of the American voter was upheld Tuesday when McCain came out on top and Barack Muslim Obama got nearly half the Democratic votes. It’s this same stupidity that encourages our president and Congress to perform as noted below, knowing they can get away with damn near anything. All they need is a cover story. It’s that simple.

“The Bush administration announced plans on Wednesday to overhaul the notoriously inefficient federal guest worker program for agriculture, seeking to provide more legal workers to American farmers who now rely primarily on illegal immigrants.

Since legislation to give legal status to illegal immigrant farm workers failed last year in Congress, the administration is now taking action that does not require Congressional approval to streamline the existing guest worker program.”

In other words, since Bush couldn’t make all the illegal aliens legal, he’s easing up on that and is going to let the constipated legal program stop being such a blockage to legal transient farm workers from Mexico.

This means that keeping the legal system as a cumbersome and useless bureaucracy all these years was deliberately done to promote the influx of illegals. Apparently we almost have our quota of illegal aliens now or Bush, as mule-headed stubborn as he is, wouldn’t finally be cleaning this mess up a little. Not a lot. A little.

“Growers cautiously welcomed the proposed changes, saying they would be helpful but would fall far short of solving the shortage of legal workers. Advocates for farm workers warned that the measures would lower wages for those who are already in the United States.”

A little. Not a lot, not good enough to make things right, just barely enough to rate a press release that sounds good.

All that jazz about “Supporting our troops” and “Giving them whatever they need” when it comes to appropriations is LIES. If it’s true, then why
did senate Republicans block the Democrat-backed plan which would have provided extra money to retired people and veterans. Senator Harry Reid said that “Given a chance to act as a recession looms, more than 40 Republicans said no to helping 20 million seniors and no to 25,000 disabled veterans.” The bill also expanded unemployment benefits, offered heating aid for the poor and gave tax breaks for renewable energy firms and coal companies.

When our budget is pushed through, every one of those people eating sushi in Washington adds on their own so-called “earmarks” totaling many billions of dollars, for memorial statues and dog runs and private security systems and all manner of crap that they should be paying for themselves instead of us. But when it comes to using Our Money to actually do something for the people it was taken from, Hell NO. Especially if any of it should go to benefit our poor.

So screw the soldiers and screw the old people trying to survive on not enough money. They don’t pay taxes so they don’t get any help. Nice, you people. I hope you get salmonella from your sushi.

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