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G W Bush just can’t help pissing people off.
He has a gift.
While it’s understandable that Liberals would revile him, he seems to go out of his way to alienate Conservatives as well.
Take his recent South American tour, which highlighted U.S.-Latin American trade relations, and brought Brazilian ethanol to the forefront as a trade topic – one that would produce tens of thousands of jobs in Brazil and help America move away from fossil fuels. A win-win all around.
Sadly, when Bush got to Mexico, he sounded less like American icon Milton Friedman, whose agenda he’d advanced early on, and more like, Ted Kennedy, who he extolled as a “one of the best legislative senators there is," giving an insight into why so many Conservatives have always been tepid, at best, to old G W.
Mexico is a country rich in natural resources. Perhaps the only thing it’s richer in is its culture of corruption. It’s that inbred corruption that’s kept Mexico from becoming a First World nation and a better neighbor to the U.S.
Unfortunately, Bush took the opportunity, while in Mexico to extol the Kennedy immigration agenda – no fence, no increased border security, a faster track immigration process and a “guest worker” (Amnesty Program) for illegal aliens already here.
That inane “Open Borders” policy is suicide for America and disastrous to American workers.
“Cheap” illegal/undocumented labor is NOT cheap!
Illegal immigration costs Americans some 5 times what that “cheap labor delivers.” Moreover, while a select few Americans benefit disproportionately from illegal immigration, the vast majority of Americans (workers) are irreparably harmed by it, as illegal immigration’s “cheap labor,” puts a powerful and persistent downward pressure on U.S. wage rates. It directly suppresses unskilled and low-skilled labor wage rates (the floor) and as the floor is lowered, it drives all other wage rates down with it.
Winking at illegal immigration and even seeking ways to "fast-track guest workers to American citizenship," isn't just bad economic policy, it's a security risk as well.
