joe klein and the hottest issue in politics

In the December 10 edition of Time Magazine, columnist Joe Klein illustrated the Presidential candidates’ confusion about the fervor over illegal immigration in the United States. He quotes Mike Huckabee, “I honestly don’t know why it’s gotten so hot.” And Hillary, “During the 1990s, I cannot remember being asked about immigration…” Klein then goes on to rail on anti-illegal immegration candidates by saying, “any candidate who claims to be able to shut down the border simply isn’t telling the truth.”

Just before that, however, Klein shows how little he really believes in the truth by trying to defend illegal immigrants with a series of laughable statements.

First: “A recent study of Arkansas, conducted by the nonpartisan Urban Institiute, estimated that immigrants there pay more in Social Security and sales taxes than they cost in social services…”

Since the article is about illegal immigration, the common reader would think that Kleiny was referring to that population, but the study was about all immigrants, including the more than half that are LEGAL. By the way Kleiny boy, how can we really track or estimate taxes on undocumented workers—they’re not really paying social security because that requires a… document.

Klein also fails to mention that of the $3 billion that immigrants make in Arkansas, they send 20% home to Mexico or Antarctica (whichever they’re from—I don’t want to unfairly pick on any nationality).

Second: “That doesn’t begin to take into acount the economic impact of the hard work and entrepreneurial energy that illegal immigrants bring to the society.”

He brings illegal immigrants back into the article like a magician plopping the head back on the broad in the box but he also switches the conversation. The country isn’t worried about losing all of that hard work and entrepreneurial spirit if all the illegals go back to the hinterlands and Joe Klein isn’t either. If there was real balance-sheet value in all of these illegal immigrants here—they’d be here legally because we would be begging for them to come over and Klein knows it. The fact that he has to snidely minimize the concerns about illegal immigration and portray it as racism is puny and avoiding the truth that illegal immigrants are sucking us dry—starting with their emergency room visits for broken ankles caused by jumping down from 20-foot walls (a friend of mine works in an ER in San Diego and sees it every day).

Third: Klein goes on to turn the argument into racism versus humanitarianism and that’s a crock.

If you’re wondering why people are mad about immigration Joe Klein, Mike Huckabee, and Hillary Rodham, I’ll tell you. We begrudgingly approved our little welfare state for ourselves over the last few decades, but we didn’t think we’d be paying for all of our new little brown buddies too. Yeah, they just want a job to feed their families and you can’t blame them. You can blame the welfare state—get rid of it and there IS NO IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.

Why Baby Boomers Suck 1

I had a boss who was a little kooky to say the least. He would give me something to do, then immediately tell me not to do that, then ask me what I thought, then, before I got a chance to answer, he would start telling me what to do again. In other situations he would answer a question of mine with, “Yes. No. Yea-no…. Yes…. No, ok.” He wouldn’t trust any employee with a key to the office and didn’t want us talking to ex-employees who had quit because of his abusive behavior. This is what we like to call CRACKED-OUT.

There’s a reason for why people get this way—it’s called CRACK ROCK. It’s the crystallized form of that ever-popular drug cocaine and I’m convinced most Baby Boomers had a little in their hay-day. If it wasn’t crack rock, it was LSD or some other mind-altering drug. And they did it when they were young and they did a lot of it. I’m sure they did a lot of tokin’ on the bong pipe too, but most people agree that weed is comparable to alcohol, and there isn’t much of a distinction between generations when it comes to those two drugs.

No—I’m talking about the heavy, psychedelic, hallucinogenic, and physiology-changing narcotics. The 60s were the years of mind-opening drugs and, boy did they open some minds! It opened people’s minds to a lot of dumb-ass behavior (see above). The 70s weren’t much better—in fact that decade was probably the peak of people jamming things up their noses, shooting veins, wrapping tongues, filling lungs, and then throwing it all back up.
Of course all of the Boom Generation didn’t lose their entire childhood to the chemicals from Timothy Leary’s basement laboratory, but enough did that they’re making cracked out—especially in the workplace—commonplace.

Some may say that the end-of-the-alphabeters—Generations X and Y—aren’t any better, but I contest that ol’ Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” worked—look at the stats. Drug use across the board decreased consistently from 1980 to the early 90s. Barrack Obama may have been all coked up in high school, but he can’t very well blame it on peer pressure. We didn’t do as much of the hard stuff in high school or after and our minds are better for it. However, our clear heads make for that much more frustration when we have to deal with the Baby Boomers who spent half their life on drugs and pretend they didn’t.

If you likes that- there’s more where it came from in my wonderful little ode to our silly little self-obsessed parents: the Baby Boomers. Check it out and buy a copy or fifty: