August 04, 2007
Saturday Forum
An Alaska Reader Says the Wall Street Journal Doesn’t
Get It About Summer Jobs; etc.
From:
Ryan
Kennedy: [e-mail
him]
Here’s another unintentionally funny
Wall Street Journal piece.
A
contributor bemoans the decline of
young people working summer jobs. But, ironically,
the
WSJ is the biggest cheerleader for the main
cause—probably the only cause—of the decline: mass
immigration. [Service
Learning: Teens Skip Menial Summer Jobs But Miss Some
Valuable Lessons, By Kay S. Hymowitz, Wall
Street Journal, August 3, 2007]
To
be fair to Hymowitz, she mentions immigration but it's
only one small paragraph when it should be the
centerpiece of her analysis.
[VDARE.COM note: Hymowitz is open borders
fanatic
Tamar Jacoby’s Manhattan Institute
colleague].
Cheap immigrant labor is why the part-time job market
has fallen apart for Americans.
Digging through old family photos I found a picture from
the late 1950s of my mom as a young lady picking
apples.
When
I asked her about it, she said she worked in the orchard
during her summer college break. The photo proves
there was a time when it was
completely normal for young Americans to do jobs
that Sen. John McCain thinks are physically impossible
for them to do:
The
ever-dense McCain is on record as claiming, incorrectly,
that Americans would not pick
lettuce for $50 a hour.
Hymowitz mentions other possible factors to low
teen-employment but I think they are all nonsense.
Internships? They are the culprit? Gimme a break.
Next
Hymowitz claims that many kids spend their summers on
polishing their resumes. When I went to school I only
knew a handful of these types. They were from well-to-do
families that didn’t need extra walking around money.
As
the WSJ and Hymowitz know, the true culprit is
the dramatic increase in non-skilled immigration that
has pushed American kids and low-income adults
out of jobs.
The WSJ
published a severely pruned version of Kennedy’s letter
omitting, among other things, his anecdotal story about
his mother. Read it
here.
Previous letters from Kennedy to VDARE.COM are
here.
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A
California Reader Urges A Boycott of Cartoon Character
“Dilbert”
From:
[Name Withheld]
Dilbert used to be
my favorite cartoon character. But not any more
since his creator, Scott Adams, wrote in his blog about
immigration that:
“I
think Mexicans are superior to me. By ‘me,’ I am
referring to people who are part English,
Irish,
Welsh, Scottish,
Dutch,
German, and
Native American.
There are three of us that I know of. I think my brother
and sister would agree that we kind of suck compared to
Mexicans.”
The entire revolting blog can be read
here.
Here is the e-mail I fired back to Adams:
“I
am Irish, Scottish, German and English and you have
personally insulted the vast majority of people who buy
your products. I am putting this on the Internet and I
expect an apology.”
Please encourage your readers
to e-mail Adams
here
The writer says that she is “sick
of the double standard. Liberals love to tell us how
racist we are but then prove all the time that they are.
Bashing any race is wrong—including European-Americans.”
Send mail
to the writer c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A Virginia Reader Warns That Romney
May Not Be Not As Strong on Immigration As Hoped
From:
W. James Antle III: [e-mail
him]
Re:
Romney Should Stop Hispandering, Run On Illegal
Immigration Record,
By Joe Guzzardi
While I agree that Mitt Romney has the best
immigration record of the top-tier Republican
candidates, some aspects of his record are window
dressing.
Romney concluded his agreement with the federal
government to have state police training to assist
immigration enforcement
in the waning days of his administration. He did not
run for reelection and the victorious Democratic
candidate,
Deval Patrick, had campaigned on a pledge to rescind
the agreement. In all, it wasn't in effect for even two
weeks.
And while Romney does deserve credit for taking the
right stand on in-state tuition for illegals while it
looked likely to pass,
talk radio—conservative even in Boston—played a much
bigger role in the bill's defeat.
Finally, Romney was supportive of
McCain-Kennedy-style immigration "reform"
while governor. He has since abandoned that position and
even said some favorable things about attrition through
enforcement, but it is not entirely clear what his
actual immigration stance is right now.
As Guzzardi wrote, Romney could be a strong
pro-enforcement candidate. But he is so inconsistent on
so many issues, and seems to do just enough on
hot-button issues to add them to his resumé, it's
awfully hard to be sure what we're getting at this
point.
Antle is formerly a
Massachusetts resident and Romney constituent. Read his
VDARE.COM articles
here,
here and
here.
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A California Soccer Mom Asks Why
Guzzardi Bashed Romney
From: A Soccer Mom
It’s
silly to bash Romney when he's the only one in the top
tier candidate who has an actual record of being tough
on illegal immigration.
Guzzardi points that out listing several things Romney
did in Massachusetts before the sleeping immigration
awareness giant awoke after the
illegals marched in our streets.
All
the main GOP candidates are bad on immigration—Rudy
Giuliani,
John McCain and
Fred Thompson who
got a “C” at
betterimmigration.com. Thompson failed to enforce
immigration laws and was particularly weak against the
employers who hired illegals
We
must judge candidates on their past records; that’s the
only indicator we have of what their future actions may
be.
Romney is the best of the bunch. Sure, he’s not
Tom Tancredo or
Duncan Hunter. But neither of those will be elected.
Why
drag down the only realistic candidate we have?
Joe Guzzardi
comments:
I would call my column constructive criticism rather
than “bashing’. My advice to Romney is to avoid “Hispandering”.
Nothing is hidden in the Internet era and we are all
paying close attention.
“A Soccer Mom” lives in the San Diego area. Send
her mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A New York Reader And
Massachusetts Native Calls Romney A Phony
From:
Matthew Richer [e-mail
him]
Romney is a phony. Even the
shamelessly open borders Boston Globe has
reported on Romney's immigration flip-flopping.
Listen to the interview in November
2005 in the online Boston Globe story on
Romney when he endorses Bush and McCain-Kennedy. He even
parrots the "amnesty isn't really amnesty" line.
[Romney’s
Words Grow Hard on Immigration, By Scott Helman,
Boston Globe, March 16, 2007)
Later, after Romney decided to talk
tough on immigration, the Globe discovered that
he had
illegals from Guatemala working on the property of
his suburban estate.
It's almost comical. My guess is
that Romney is following former President Nixon's advice
to Bob Dole “to
run as fast as you can to the middle”.
If Romney gets to the White House,
who is he going to reward, Wall Street or Main Street?
I think the answer is obvious.
Matthew
Richer is the author of
Busing's Boston Massacre.
His previous letters to VDARE.COM are
here.
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A California Reader Asks What
“Family Values” Means
From:
Randy
When
Romney talks about “family
values,” what does he mean? “Family values”
is the most
idiotic term I have ever heard…totally meaningless
It
represents an empty copout for those who can't say
Judeo-Christian (i.e. WASP) values.
So
what are the "values" that now define America?
Are
they the values of
Islam, of
Asian or
Latino cultures, Hillary's cultural Marxism or the
cult of
multiculturalism?
The
answer is none of the above. I define “family values"
as the traditional values that America was founded on
and thrived under for close to 200 years before mass
immigration set off the decline in our moral and ethical
standards.
Randy
lives in southern California. Send him mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A Florida Reader Is “Pleasantly
Surprised” By Romney
From:
Eddie Brock
I
went to see Mitt Romney in
Miami and was pleasantly surprised. Even though the
crowd was mostly Hispanic, Romney thankfully did not
engage in Hispandering.
The
only thing that reminded me that I live in a majority
Hispanic city was when they played Spanish music after
Romney concluded his speech.
I
got my picture taken with him, but didn't really have an
opportunity to bring up any key issues.
If
Romney actually enacts measures on immigration similar
to what he did in Massachusetts or follows through on
what he says his positions are on his website and during
the debates, then I see him as the best we have.
I
briefly considered Fred Thompson but his voting record
is poor. The final straw for me was Thompson’s
appointment of open borders advocate
Spencer Abraham.
My
first two choices are
Duncan Hunter or
Tom Tancredo. But since its highly unlikely either
will win the nomination, the only other alternative is
Romney.
Romney will work to end massive illegal and legal
immigration and beat back the amnesty-obsessed
Democrats.
Brock was born and raised in Miami. He is an immigration
reform activist because, he says:
“he doesn’t want
the rest of the country to end up like
the worst parts of Miami.”
Send Brock mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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