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Wheat & Weeds – Conservatives Are Missing The Boat

A slice off her post:

I thought Conservatives were the ones who believed in the American dream and the power of our system to lift people from poverty? Illegal immigration is a great threat to us because people who are essentially a black market labor product are stuck forever in poverty, cannot live the American dream, and are a permanent underclass likely to become cynical and radicalized over time (as we’re already seeing). Legal immigration is another matter entirely, and the great threat to our system is not people (whom we desperately need, because “born-American America” is not replacing itself any better than Europe), but multiculturalism and corrupt leftist programs that hold people back and breed hatred of America.

On the subject of the people stuck in the black market forever stuck in poverty, what about business regulations (especially those affecting women) which, for instance, require about the same number of coursework to get a license to braid hair (no sharp objects or harsh chemicals!) as you need to get a license to fly attack helicopters* ? You end up putting a business license out of their reach so they can never get a business loan or expand. So how the hell are we supposed to raise these 193,000,000 people out of poverty?

And on the subject of what she’d do, I liked this one:

• I would not miss an opportunity to shame Mexico– a nation with more billionaires than most European countries– for being so selfish and corrupt it would rather send its army across our southern border to disrupt our border patrol than lift a finger to help its working poor. That is disgusting, and Mexico should pay for that in our policies and in the esteem of civilized nations.

* She says with a possible rhetorical flourish, but there’s still a boatload of hours required.