On English as the recognized national language:

It only makes sense to have a national language. English should be ours (it is historically and currently the primary language spoken by the majority of Americans) if any nation is to survive it is necessary to be able to communicate with one another. We can not share our ideas with one another if we can not communicate. There is an inherent inability to communicate or at least a significant barrier to communication if we don’t speak the same language. Look at the problems between Quebec and the rest of Canada…I believe that a significant reason for this friction is the language barrier. It makes communication difficult and allows people to group into classes (people who primarily speak English vs. French). Why would you want to sew discord by allowing/encouraging splinter groups/factions within your nation? There is nothing that bonds people together more fundamentally than a common language.

Why it’ OK (but not ideal) to have illegal immigrant labor:

1. They will work for far less than an American


2. The work they do helps keep prices down.


3. They don’t steal jobs from Americans, they do work that Americans don’t want to do/or wouldn’t do on a bet.


4. They free up American laborers to do more valuable labor that is safer and easier than the labor that the immigrants do.


5. If they were citizens they would not pay taxes, they would receive taxes because they would be the working poor.


6. If American workers did their work, prices for the goods/services would cost more. Not only that, but the American economy would suffer because we would have to eliminate some of the better, higher paid jobs in order to replace them with the low paying service jobs instead…the exact opposite of the ideal (the exact opposite of the current).


7. Many of the services they do (child care/home improvement/cleaning/yard care, etc.) would be unaffordable to most Americans if they were done by an American.


8. If American workers did the work, many of the industries that illegal workers work in would probably cease to exist (flowers/produce, textiles etc). These industries (probably) have a small profit margin. If they had to pay the expense of paying for higher priced labor, they would not be able to compete with foreign industry.


9. They desperately need jobs, and America has them. If we refused them work, they would suffer or die. We desperately need unskilled or simi-skilled labot to free up Americans so that they can do better paying jobs.


10. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle: There is a simple reality: You can’t get rid of 12 million illegal workers, even if you wanted to. Even if you could, who would do their work?

On how they exploit us:

How the hell do they exploit us? They work for 75% of the minimum wage (or less) doing the jobs that most Americans wouldn't lower themselves to do. They work harder and do their jobs better than most Americans would or could, without any additional benefits (like Medicare, Social Security, health care benefits, 401K plans, retirement plans, etc.) so that we can enrich ourselves by underpaying them (we are able to afford more services or pay less for the services we do receive because of their exploitation). We yoke there hard labor and don’t pay those taxes/subsidies/benefits that we would pay to any American worker and then pocket the difference (the business owner earns greater profits, so do the shareholders and legal employees through higher pay/bonuses, etc... Some of that ill gotten gain goes to the consumer via lower prices) so both the business owner “the evil corporations” and the “honest” (but co-conspiring) consumer exploit them. Who is exploiting who?

On how we “don’t want them here and how “wrong” it is for other countries to import temporary workers:

We are so indignant when other countries hire foreign workers and yoke their labor, and under-pay them and exploit them, but we do it! We just call it “illegal” we have 12-30 MILLION “illegal immigrants” (we like to say that we don’t want them here, but we couldn’t exist without them. We like to say that we can’t do anything about the problem; but we know we could if we really wanted to. Workers that we are uber-exploiting with no legal protection against any or all exploitation that they might have if they were legally brought in via worker visas. If we want these “illegal” workers to “go home” why don’t we just issue an additional 12-30 million worker visas so that we could have documented, and legal foreign workers to exploit like other countries do? I would say that we probably have the largest and most exploited group of foreign workers in the entire world!

On how they don’t pay taxes:

They do pay taxes! Every time they purchase anything (food, rent, gas, etc. any of the things that you buy and pay taxes for) they pay American taxes for. Probably 90 cents of every dollar (or more) that they make is paid out just to subsist in America. So 90% of there wages is taxed. As for federal and state income taxes, in what state would someone earning $5.00 per hour pay taxes? If they were American workers, they would be below the poverty level and would receive all of there income taxes, both federal and state, back at the end of the year plus thousands of dollars in tax incentives (like the earned income tax credit, head-of-household, etc.) as well as thousands of additional dollars of state and federal aid (WIC, Medicare, section 8 housing, subsidized child care, head start, etc.)

On how we “pay/subsidize” them through our tax dollars:

We should! They WORK and work for far less than the minimum wage so that we can be enriched from their hard labor, and then we are mad because we pay some of that ill gotten gain back to support our indentured servants? How dare we! We expect to be subsidized for our labor: we expect that we will receive benefits like subsidized heath care (our employers pay the majority of our premiums…equivalent to subsidization), 401K plans, etc. from our employers (which they pass on to the consumer via higher prices…so everyone pays – and everyone is subsidized). We subsidize ourselves; shouldn’t Americas most exploited laborers be subsidized?

Reality vs. the ideal:

We have to live in reality, not in a utopian fantasy world. This requires us to accept certain inevitable truths/realities, as unpleasant as those realities are. It is noble to attempt to try to change injustice when we find it, but we must also be rational. Things that are wrong or broken can rarely be fixed overnight. Some can not be fixed at all. We must attempt to rationally address things that we perceive as wrong and create workable solutions to address them. We must also understand that there is only a limited amount of resources available to address an infinite number of problems. We need to address those problems that are most important and recognize that there will be problems but that we will not be able to be addresses (at least not today).

On how it is unfair to grant illegal aliens amnesty:

Why would you want to give citizenship to a “legal” immigrant who has not lived in America, does not speak the language, has no provable skill to offer, has not proven their ability to function in America - when you have millions of illegal aliens (who you can’t get rid of) who have proven that they can do work, have homes and perhaps families here, have learned (at least some of them have) to speak English, have proven skills and have proven their ability to function in America (assimilate…sort of). If you did offer aliens of foreign nation’s citizenship you would still have millions of illegal immigrants…they aren’t going to just go away.

My Rants

So...I have been writing (to myself) for a while...and I am going to post the things that I call "My Rants" here. I don't know why, but what the hell. I know that at this point "My Rants" are not well organized, and in many cases may seem contradictory to themselves...but...it's what I have. I hope that someone will read some of my rants and they will genereate some discussion or debate.