Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Riley Over O'Reilly

The Wall Street Journal's, Jason Riley, has put forth one of the most critical questions of the last two decades and it goes something like this. If immigrants are coming to the United States predominantly to procure welfare benefits, then why are they flocking mostly to those states where the entitlements are the skimpiest (Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa - these states are currently showing the fastest growth rate in immigrant populations)? It makes zero sense and, yet, wouldn't you just love to see this question thrown in the general direction of Dobbs, O'Reilly, and Coulter? I surely would..........................................................................................P.S. The fact of the matter here is that the vast, VAST, majority of the people who come to America from Mexico and the rest of Latin America are economic migrants WHO WANT TO WORK (folks who want to work - how refreshing, huh?) and, while, no, they aren't exactly rocket scientists and tax attorneys, there's a pretty good chance that there children might be.

10 comments:

Les Carpenter said...

Just what the next generation of Amerocans need, attorneys. Scientists? Absolutely!

BB-Idaho said...

The mere juxtapostition of " rocket scientists and tax attorneys" is repulsive.
The first reach for the stars,
the latter for your billfold.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

OK, scientists and community organizers.

dmarks said...

Haha. Anyway great post. Couldn't have said it better. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Pat Buchanan.

Jerry Critter said...

Just like the children turning themselves in at the border.

dmarks said...

Will: One can also mention the opposition to free trade, as well. While it is a different idea, of course, those who oppose it also get afflicted with ignorant, sometimes racism-tinged nativism. And, like anti-immigration, this stance calls for much stronger, more abusive government power at the expense of the rights of the average person.

Many, like the aforementioned, hold the two views at the same time. Such as the aforementioned Pat Buchanan, hater of immigrants and free-and-fair trade. I suppose that is a bit more consistent, even though I dislike both horns of the nativist, isolationist beast.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

This Riley fellow is my new hero. Thinks outside the box and then some.

dmarks said...

Some do. But since the border is not secure at all, many cross over and die inside the US.

dmarks said...

He thinks outside the FOX (tm) too.

dmarks said...

BB said: "The mere juxtapostition of " rocket scientists and tax attorneys" is repulsive. "

The type of people who think it is a shame that Mars has existed all these billions of years without a civil suit having taken place on its red soil....