Summary of this week's report:
I wanted to send out a legislative update on immigration issues.
There are other important issues, but this issue above all others
relates to the survival of our country and state.
Most immigration bills are processed by the State Affairs committee
in the Texas House. Last session, Chairman Burt Solomons killed
most of the good immigration bills. Rep. Solomons seems to have
gotten the message this session, however, as he is one of the main
sponsors of a bill to ban sanctuary cities. However, Mr. Solomons
is no longer chair of the State Affairs Committee. That honor has
fallen to Rep. Byron Cook.
Here's what Rep. Cook has done so far:
He has scheduled a number of good bills for a hearing. Remember
last time that the main way Solomons killed bills was by delaying
or denying hearings. So far, it appears Rep. Cook is playing fair
with the immigration bills.
However, there is one particular bill that has not yet been
scheduled for a hearing and it happens to be, in my opinion, the
most important immigration bill we must pass. It also happens to
be the bill that the Cheap Labor Lobby, and the traitor wing of the
Republican Party, will fight the hardest against.
This bill is HB 296, which requires state contractors and grant
recipients to use the E-verify system. E-verify, as you may know,
is an optional system that lets employers check social security
numbers of employees against the federal database. Since many
illegal aliens present fake documents to get jobs (and many
employers are happy to play along, and are prohibited from
investigating even if they smell something fishy due to oppressive
"civil rights" laws), E-verify removes the jobs magnet for many
illegals, who are usually incapable of anything more sophisticated
than the petty fraud of forged documents, which E-verify
effectively curtails.
As Roy Beck with NumbersUSA has stated many times, the Left likes
to make immigration into a false choice: either we round up and
deport people in an inhumane way, or we have to grant amnesty. The
simplest solution is to remove the jobs magnet with a system like
E-verify and people will self-deport. For example, it's a lot
cheaper to be unemployed in a foreign country like Mexico than in
Texas. Then, these foreign governments will have to deal with
their own social problems instead of pushing them onto American
taxpayers.
There's also a moral side to this issue. The law of supply and
demand determines who gets rewarded in a free market system. For
example, the main inputs into the production of aluminum are
bauxite and electricity. It makes sense that if, for example,
energy prices are really high (indicating high demand), that
electricity producers would make more profit during those times.
Many so-called Republicans are hypocrites when it comes to the
price of labor. Whenever wages go up because of high demand from
employers, the first response of the cheap labor traitors is to
demand increased immigration levels to suppress rising wages. As a
result, we have gone in a generation from a country where a high
school graduate could support an entire family to a country where
the average person can barely make it on the market wage unless
they reduce themselves to a Third World standard of living. When
the cheap labor traitors can't get wages beat down enough through
legal means, they have used their political influence to stop
enforcement of our nation's immigration laws so that they can hire
illegal labor at even lower wages.
We see this kind of corruption- the use of government policy to
manipulate the labor market- up and down the economic ladder.
America's richest man, Bill Gates, has the audacity to ask Congress
for more H-1b visas so Microsoft can have an army of indentured
servants programming for $30,000 a year instead of employing
Americans at the market wage. At the other end we see the massive
fraud and criminality of the meat processing industry, which used
to be a place where average Americans could earn a decent wage
doing an unpleasant job.
Cheap Labor Lobby companies like the Tyson Corporation make
billions of additional profits by lowering their direct labor costs
at the expense of American workers and jobs, while simultaneously
pushing untold billions of additional social spending onto American
taxpayers for the health care and education required by law to be
provided to illegal aliens.
On a related note, I think we would all prefer our computers to run
more reliably if more software companies like Microsoft would
invest in talented American programmers instead of Third World
coding sweatshops.
A friend of mine from college told me the story of his father, who
used to make six figures programming mainframes. He was laid off
right before retirement and looked for a similar job (even at
reduced pay) for over two years; he now works in the electronics
section of the local Wal-mart. You see, technology companies don't
want to hire a 50-something family man when they can get an Indian
programmer on an H-1b visa to work 60 hour weeks, under threat of
deportation, for $15 an hour.
I'm sure many of you could tell me similar stories. There is a
real human cost to the cheap labor traitors' corrupting our
government to distort the free market. We are denying our own
domestic wage earners their God-given right to be paid the market
wage in times of high demand.
Under our republican form of government, we are all essentially
members of a covenant to respect each other's property rights, even
in situations where it does us personal harm. I have no right, for
example, to demand that the electric company charge me less than
market price, even if my personal situation is desperate and I
cannot afford to pay. When we import Third World labor, we are
bringing people into this country whose culture does not share our
respect for free markets and property rights. If they did, first
of all they wouldn't violate our nation's property rights by
illegally entering and trespassing. Secondly, their home countries
would not be such a mess, a long history of bloody demagogues and
continual revolutions with each new leader as corrupt as the last.
People generally get the government they deserve, as the old saying
goes.
Thus, for short term profits, the cheap labor traitors ruin the
long-term prospects of freedom, the very system that enabled them
to generate their wealth. That's why Democrats are so smug in this
state, despite their recent electoral punishment. They know that,
in the long run, demographics largely driven by illegal immigration
make it inevitable that Texas will turn blue like California. It
will take longer than they expect, but it will eventually happen
unless something is done to reverse these ominous trends.
Once this happens, you can forget about a conservative President.
You can forget about the Supreme Court, a primary reason so many of
us hold our nose in Presidential elections and vote for the lesser
of two evils. The game will be over if Texas falls; between New
York, California and Texas the Democrats will have a lock on the
Presidency. Our national government will then be under total
occupation by Barack Obamas, Sonia Sotomayors and Ruth Bader
Ginsburgs. The tattered remains of our much-abused but still-alive
Constitution will finally be discarded by a permanent revolution of
the Left.
Mandating E-Verify in Texas is a positive first step to counter
these trends. The Cheap Labor Lobby will fight it tooth and nail,
because it cuts to the heart of their criminal profits.
Take Action:
Please call Rep. Byron Cook at 512-463-0730 and demand he schedule
a hearing in March for HB 296, which mandates use of the E-Verify
system for many employers.
I wanted to send out a legislative update on immigration issues.
There are other important issues, but this issue above all others
relates to the survival of our country and state.
Most immigration bills are processed by the State Affairs committee
in the Texas House. Last session, Chairman Burt Solomons killed
most of the good immigration bills. Rep. Solomons seems to have
gotten the message this session, however, as he is one of the main
sponsors of a bill to ban sanctuary cities. However, Mr. Solomons
is no longer chair of the State Affairs Committee. That honor has
fallen to Rep. Byron Cook.
Here's what Rep. Cook has done so far:
He has scheduled a number of good bills for a hearing. Remember
last time that the main way Solomons killed bills was by delaying
or denying hearings. So far, it appears Rep. Cook is playing fair
with the immigration bills.
However, there is one particular bill that has not yet been
scheduled for a hearing and it happens to be, in my opinion, the
most important immigration bill we must pass. It also happens to
be the bill that the Cheap Labor Lobby, and the traitor wing of the
Republican Party, will fight the hardest against.
This bill is HB 296, which requires state contractors and grant
recipients to use the E-verify system. E-verify, as you may know,
is an optional system that lets employers check social security
numbers of employees against the federal database. Since many
illegal aliens present fake documents to get jobs (and many
employers are happy to play along, and are prohibited from
investigating even if they smell something fishy due to oppressive
"civil rights" laws), E-verify removes the jobs magnet for many
illegals, who are usually incapable of anything more sophisticated
than the petty fraud of forged documents, which E-verify
effectively curtails.
As Roy Beck with NumbersUSA has stated many times, the Left likes
to make immigration into a false choice: either we round up and
deport people in an inhumane way, or we have to grant amnesty. The
simplest solution is to remove the jobs magnet with a system like
E-verify and people will self-deport. For example, it's a lot
cheaper to be unemployed in a foreign country like Mexico than in
Texas. Then, these foreign governments will have to deal with
their own social problems instead of pushing them onto American
taxpayers.
There's also a moral side to this issue. The law of supply and
demand determines who gets rewarded in a free market system. For
example, the main inputs into the production of aluminum are
bauxite and electricity. It makes sense that if, for example,
energy prices are really high (indicating high demand), that
electricity producers would make more profit during those times.
Many so-called Republicans are hypocrites when it comes to the
price of labor. Whenever wages go up because of high demand from
employers, the first response of the cheap labor traitors is to
demand increased immigration levels to suppress rising wages. As a
result, we have gone in a generation from a country where a high
school graduate could support an entire family to a country where
the average person can barely make it on the market wage unless
they reduce themselves to a Third World standard of living. When
the cheap labor traitors can't get wages beat down enough through
legal means, they have used their political influence to stop
enforcement of our nation's immigration laws so that they can hire
illegal labor at even lower wages.
We see this kind of corruption- the use of government policy to
manipulate the labor market- up and down the economic ladder.
America's richest man, Bill Gates, has the audacity to ask Congress
for more H-1b visas so Microsoft can have an army of indentured
servants programming for $30,000 a year instead of employing
Americans at the market wage. At the other end we see the massive
fraud and criminality of the meat processing industry, which used
to be a place where average Americans could earn a decent wage
doing an unpleasant job.
Cheap Labor Lobby companies like the Tyson Corporation make
billions of additional profits by lowering their direct labor costs
at the expense of American workers and jobs, while simultaneously
pushing untold billions of additional social spending onto American
taxpayers for the health care and education required by law to be
provided to illegal aliens.
On a related note, I think we would all prefer our computers to run
more reliably if more software companies like Microsoft would
invest in talented American programmers instead of Third World
coding sweatshops.
A friend of mine from college told me the story of his father, who
used to make six figures programming mainframes. He was laid off
right before retirement and looked for a similar job (even at
reduced pay) for over two years; he now works in the electronics
section of the local Wal-mart. You see, technology companies don't
want to hire a 50-something family man when they can get an Indian
programmer on an H-1b visa to work 60 hour weeks, under threat of
deportation, for $15 an hour.
I'm sure many of you could tell me similar stories. There is a
real human cost to the cheap labor traitors' corrupting our
government to distort the free market. We are denying our own
domestic wage earners their God-given right to be paid the market
wage in times of high demand.
Under our republican form of government, we are all essentially
members of a covenant to respect each other's property rights, even
in situations where it does us personal harm. I have no right, for
example, to demand that the electric company charge me less than
market price, even if my personal situation is desperate and I
cannot afford to pay. When we import Third World labor, we are
bringing people into this country whose culture does not share our
respect for free markets and property rights. If they did, first
of all they wouldn't violate our nation's property rights by
illegally entering and trespassing. Secondly, their home countries
would not be such a mess, a long history of bloody demagogues and
continual revolutions with each new leader as corrupt as the last.
People generally get the government they deserve, as the old saying
goes.
Thus, for short term profits, the cheap labor traitors ruin the
long-term prospects of freedom, the very system that enabled them
to generate their wealth. That's why Democrats are so smug in this
state, despite their recent electoral punishment. They know that,
in the long run, demographics largely driven by illegal immigration
make it inevitable that Texas will turn blue like California. It
will take longer than they expect, but it will eventually happen
unless something is done to reverse these ominous trends.
Once this happens, you can forget about a conservative President.
You can forget about the Supreme Court, a primary reason so many of
us hold our nose in Presidential elections and vote for the lesser
of two evils. The game will be over if Texas falls; between New
York, California and Texas the Democrats will have a lock on the
Presidency. Our national government will then be under total
occupation by Barack Obamas, Sonia Sotomayors and Ruth Bader
Ginsburgs. The tattered remains of our much-abused but still-alive
Constitution will finally be discarded by a permanent revolution of
the Left.
Mandating E-Verify in Texas is a positive first step to counter
these trends. The Cheap Labor Lobby will fight it tooth and nail,
because it cuts to the heart of their criminal profits.
Take Action:
Please call Rep. Byron Cook at 512-463-0730 and demand he schedule
a hearing in March for HB 296, which mandates use of the E-Verify
system for many employers.
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