Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

So far in 2006, a million and a half illegal aliens were turned away at U.S. borders.  With at least 11.5 million illegal aliens already in the U.S.A., obtaining education for their children, with the extended burden for hospital care and welfare rolls, something has got to give.  

In 1949 laws were passed to punish employers hiring cheap labor illegal aliens.  That is how many employers got rich quick.  Tragically some businesses have been riding the economic gravy train for half a century.  

Ronald Reagan's amnesty program only intensified the entrance of illegal aliens coming in droves to the U.S.A.  They calculated that the road to U.S. citizenship was to slip into the U.S.A. illegally and wait.  We can thank Ronald Reagan for that along with tripling the national debt.

Then the amnesty policy would eventually kick in.  In the meantime welfare, education for their children, and hospital care would be available.  The route to citizenship was simply to have a lot of children.  Any child born in the U.S.A. whether or not their parents were legal citizens, instantly became U.S. citizens.

Certain churches provided sanctuary for illegal aliens.  They advocated breaking U.S. law for what they construe as a higher law.  Apparently this is their vision of God's law.  

CEO's have seen a nifty pay increase of almost 300 percent between 1990 and 2005.  American executives skim off over 10 percent of corporate gains for themselves.

According to Perry L. Weed, writing in the November 1 Washington Spectator, "Recently the ratio of the pay of corporations to that of a production worker reached an unprecedented 431 to 1, on average an annual rate of $11.8 million to $27,400.  Average hourly wages and salaries of production and non-supervisory workers have fallen 5 percent since 1973."

The lobbyists now outnumber members of Congress.  The generous "trips" and "cash" for congressional campaigns were not enough.  They gave themselves a pay raise.  However, the federal standard for the minimum wage hasn't changed in 10 long years.

Swiftly the U.S. has become two classes, the very rich and the poor.  With this terrible Administration the middle class has almost vanished.  Equitable distribution of wealth is a thing of the past.

Perry L. Weed further stated in the Washington Spectator, "For the least wealthy 50 percent of families, according to a 2006 federal reserve report, the share of U.S. family wealth has fallen to a meager 2.5 percent."  

Now the U.S.A. has become the most unequal of rich nations.  

How in the name of God can Bush boast about the economy?

How can Bush loudly proclaim that if Democrats take over taxes will go up?

Bush and this Republican Administration will have U.S. citizens paying high taxes from here to eternity.  That and getting us into the Iraq War with false documents will constitute his horrifying legacy.