George W. Bush blames himself for
'populist uprising' on immigration
Washington Times,
by
Jessica Chasmar
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/2/2021 12:21:16 AM
Former President George W. Bush appeared to blame himself for the country’s “populist uprising” on illegal immigration after he failed to pass comprehensive reform during his eight years in office. During an interview with “The Dispatch” podcast, Mr. Bush expanded on comments he made earlier this month that his failure to pass immigration reform was one of his biggest regrets of his presidency. “Now, the reason I say it’s a regret is because it’s my fault,” the former president said Thursday. “I tried to reform Social Security before reforming immigration. And, you know, I was warned. I’ll never forget, a bunch of Republicans
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JrSample 5/2/2021 12:25:25 AM (No. 772955)
Just keep looking for those weapons of mass destruction. Heck-of-a-job, Bushy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/2/2021 12:40:09 AM (No. 772961)
As things wind down for W, he's begging for a pat on the head.
There there, little fella...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/2/2021 12:46:36 AM (No. 772962)
I remember this event. There were thousands of illegal aliens marching, demanding to become legal citizens. Bush was going to do that. He was shocked, tho, at the reaction of Americans who did not want this. That's why he backed down. Because our outrage made him. He was clueless about the feelings of real America. We still feel that way.
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Some things Mr. Bush can blame himself for: (1) The Iraq War; (2) transferring American manufacturing to China; (3) driving the economy into recession; (4) permitting and apologizing for a massive increase in immigration crime.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Californian 5/2/2021 1:55:44 AM (No. 772968)
Immigration reform really always meant full amnesty (again), open borders, unlimited and unfiltered immigration, and the American tax payers footing the bill for the destruction of the republic.
Still means that.
If anyone in the Bush dynasty had to work for a living and compete for a job, a school slot, or anything else they'd be dramatically opposed to all of this and build a huge wall with an armed guard every 6 feet.
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Remember the Guess Worker Program ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/2/2021 5:06:32 AM (No. 772990)
GW is an embarrassment. He is no better than his father and brother. What a huge mistake calling this clown a republican.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/2/2021 6:16:42 AM (No. 773000)
Mighty big of you, pal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/2/2021 6:22:20 AM (No. 773004)
Bush could have been a great president.......but he chose not to be.
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Don't stop at populist uprising... You're to blame for many of the ills this country faces today. You are a New World Order wimp, just like your father was. The destruction of America is part of that agenda and it sickens me to think you and the whole rotten Bush family is part of it. Reagan's biggest mistake was having your father as his VP... I'd like to believe the only reason was because he thought he needed Texas to win.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/2/2021 6:38:10 AM (No. 773018)
I blame you for enforcing George Soros's view of the world. The fact that Soros worked with and for Hitler is not in dispute, despite the fact that he is Jewish. So, damn you George Bush for everything you stand for. I have to admit you are right about one thing, had you done a better job at protecting America from the socialist invasion, Trump would not have been necessary.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DustDevil31 5/2/2021 6:39:04 AM (No. 773019)
Bush was big “ borrow and spend” Republican. Too much bad Govt under his watch. He birthed the woke DHS. Debt was meaningless to him.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Edgelady 5/2/2021 6:47:44 AM (No. 773027)
In the book he wrote right after his administration was over was his then big regret was not sticking to capitalist principles and bailing out the auto industry, which started the big slide into the Big Recession and millions losing their jobs - that was the first reset and he was complicit in it. He observed how Obama’s administration made it even worse, yet for all appearances seemed okay with it. You don’t open the gates for thousands of people until your own people are relatively secure. The left likes adding insecurity to the American system - they hate our strength and individualism, yet that’s what makes us persevere, And now Bush is speaking up as though he’s still, or even ever was, a pivotal figure in history? No, he’s been commanded to appeal to Republicans to try to bring us back into the squishy fold. Not going to work. Go back to painting.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
govlawyer 5/2/2021 7:03:46 AM (No. 773034)
After W, I think we've learned to stay "out of the Bushes".
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/2/2021 7:24:53 AM (No. 773049)
I also remember hearing the statement "they will do the jobs that Americans won't do" by George W Bush and Dick Cheney. They thought Americans would be flattered when, in fact, they were insulted. Yes, we have some people who are not motivated but we are a good country. Hard workers. It is the elitists like him and his class that do not understand this one thing - when you bring in more people (amnesty), it takes jobs away from the existing people.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/2/2021 8:03:06 AM (No. 773086)
Another rino trying to ingratiate himself with conservatives.... he and pence can't whistle in the wind... your time has past...WE the people trust President Trump to do what's right for America...as President Reagan said..."get out of our way"...you had your chance and you flubbed it...so retire quietly and let Americans call the shots... and WE want President Trump back in charge
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/2/2021 8:07:09 AM (No. 773094)
Actually I did not want to read this article because I knew it would get my morning started off in the wrong direction, and it did. It just confirmed that politicians believe they have the right to play games with the American people in order not to better their lives or enact policies that they want, but to play an angle with the goal of re-election. Most of them have no clue what the American people consider important to their lives or if they do it is inconsequential to their personal goals. Nothing proves this more than the issue of illegal immigration. For years politicians have refused to do what the American people want done on this issue; secure the border, limit the number of immigrants coming to this country, deport illegals who are here, and get rid of the anchor baby policy. These public servants needed the issue to kick around to benefit themselves and they have kicked it around for decades. Have the American people benefited from their unwillingness to do what is right and good for the country? Of course not, and politicians don’t care. Clearly, the political class is only interested in our votes. Once they get what they want, we are forgotten and thought of as the great unwashed masses. This is all a game to these elites where who can become the wealthiest and most powerful in a job that would not exist but for the taxes levied on the very people they are supposed to serve and represent, but ignore. It is often said that democrats use minorities to get elected and then ignore them until they need their vote in the next election. Well, Republicans do it too, and this is a prime example.
Any wonder why President Trump supporters are so loyal? It’s very simple, he did not play their silly self-serving games. He actually worked hard to produce the results he promised on the campaign trail and that’s why they hate him. Don’t kid yourself into believing it is just democrats. No, the GOP harbored no love for him either because he saw how corrupt the games they were playing were. If they had been more supportive, it would be a very different world we are living in today.
Washington may be beyond saving, and it is not because we the people have given up, it is because it clearly is riddled with two kinds of people, one being the complete political animal determined to transform this great country into a nightmare with the help of their bureaucratic lackeys that would please any totalitarian, and two those who maybe go there with the goal to serve the people but these folks are quickly swallowed by the establishment and surrender to the lure of great wealth and prominence. They don’t even strive for power. It is enough to wear the label that their jobs confer upon them. These are the ego driven camera seeking fools who talk a lot but accomplish little to nothing. All in all, the system we have now is broken. It serves everyone but the people who elect them, pay their salaries and send them off to retirement in style. If you are looking for Patriots or problem servers, do not look to Washington. The atmosphere is toxic and they will destroy anyone who dares upset their applecart. Americans know that President Trump was the only guy fighting the good fight in a city of pathological liars, crooks, and traitors. It says a lot about the whole kit and caboodle, Republicans and Democrats, who would for their own selfish purposes destroy the country that enabled them to do what they are doing. One doing it as anti-American political zealots and the other through their self-serving cowardice. Our sovereignty is the lynch pin holding the country together but once removed will collapse every other issue and the democrats just pulled the pin.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/2/2021 8:07:33 AM (No. 773095)
Back in the day - - say from 2001 to 2009 - - this forum was flooded with Bush apologists - - who regularly bashed me for having naughty things to say about Little Georgie Porgie.
Ahh, yes - - those were the good old days!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/2/2021 8:10:07 AM (No. 773098)
I bet if GW spoke in public some place that he'd get boos and catcalls just like Romney. (I can't believe I voted for both of them.)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Speedy2 5/2/2021 8:16:26 AM (No. 773108)
Bush and Big Mike are like peas in a pod.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 5/2/2021 8:16:29 AM (No. 773109)
Game balls for XvII and XVIII
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HonestDon 5/2/2021 8:20:19 AM (No. 773113)
President Dunsel. He could have done SO MUCH, but listened to Rove and Cheney and stayed "within the lines." Too bad for him and, more importantly, for America.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bobmadison 5/2/2021 8:25:03 AM (No. 773121)
What a huge disappointment, similar to our Governor Bobby Jindal (?-La.). He blew a golden chance to help us forget daddy Bush's, "Read my lips. NO NEW TAXES." After Desert Storm, daddy Bush had an EIGHTY-ONE percent approval rating. Bush 's last two years were a horrible disaster. What an embarrassment to Texas and the Republican Party.
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For those of you sneering at our support for Bush back in the day...what else were we supposed to do? Support Al Gore? After Clinton I had high hopes for Bush but he broke my heart so many times I didn’t care if he won re-election or not. No, that’s not quite true, I abhorred Kerry just like I do Biden, but, what else can we do? We have to support what we have because worse is right there around the corner.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/2/2021 8:35:37 AM (No. 773135)
Those words by #24 are from my own pen. So, ditto, ditto, ditto.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 5/2/2021 8:37:37 AM (No. 773139)
43 is such a huge disappointment. It pains me even to read the things he says. We supported Bush 100 percent. We lived and worked in NYC on 9/11, my husband at the Trade Center and I two blocks south. GW was as big an inspiration to us as Rudy Giuliani. Imagine if Al Gore had been president during that catastrophic attack? As others have said, ultimately we had no choice but to support Bush and at the time it was the right thing to do.
But now, all I do is shake my head in sadness and disappointment at Bush. Thank God, Rudolph Giuliani is still Rudy.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Kafka2 5/2/2021 8:49:13 AM (No. 773151)
I agree with "W" that passing smaller bills “may be a better approach” and that “comprehensive may be too big of a reach right now.”
One thing that should be changed is making it easier to get work visas with the stipulation that it only gives entry for the worker, it would not allow relatives, without a work visa, to enter also. Since this would be a legal status, US labor protections would apply ending abuse of illegal workers.
Another should be to eliminate "anchor babies," where a foreign national gives birth on US soil, the baby is automatically given US citizenship. Whole families are given entry based on the baby's birth certificate.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/2/2021 8:54:03 AM (No. 773153)
The entire world has gone nuts on immigration. It makes sense when a country needs more workers, the workers have essential skills and they pay income taxes. Europe has been infested with Africans and Muslims who rape, kill, steal and do not work. The US has been invaded by the same types of people from nearly every country. The soft-headed morons who think it is their job to feed the world's exploding population while not requiring them to work for it is going to be the death of all of us.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/2/2021 9:01:23 AM (No. 773160)
W, I hate to say it, but, it was a mistake voting for you. Guess where you can insert your new world order?
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GustoGrabber 5/2/2021 9:12:02 AM (No. 773177)
What else could you do? Continue the Reagan legacy with Kemp or Laxalt or Fred Thompson or Tommy Thompson or Pat Buchanon or Steve Forbes or Sarah Palin or Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich........no you chose Bush, there were better alternatives.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Cindiana 5/2/2021 9:17:07 AM (No. 773183)
Add me to #24 amd #25.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/2/2021 9:19:40 AM (No. 773185)
W blames himself? We blame him for alot of things too. Mainly for not defending himself against attacks which ushered in the age of Obama.
While the Democrats nail us between the eyes, the Republicans are busy stabbing us in the back. At this point they all need to go.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/2/2021 9:32:51 AM (No. 773203)
W was the Woulda, Shoulda, Couldn't President.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
keep_right 5/2/2021 9:46:25 AM (No. 773222)
W did have understanding of the need for immigration reform. Many seem to forget that Trump also provided a path to citizenship for those brought to the country as minors. Many also brand any attempt to deal with the masses that live, work and pay taxes in this country as "amnesty". Some of these ideas have suggested that those brought in as minors, etc return to their birth country to complete the application. This article provides NO context to the "populist movement" phrase. In the context of the Bush administration (preceding the Obama administration), the populist movement may have been the push for DACA that Obama put in place. Just because the Bushes have behaved badly in the post Jeb! failure doesn't mean everything that W says or does is evil.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
JackBurton 5/2/2021 9:47:41 AM (No. 773225)
On immigration, Bush never led. He barely followed.
He did get billions for a border wall... and then did nothing. Nothing. Regret THAT because THAT is YOUR fault.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
starboard 5/2/2021 10:09:23 AM (No. 773243)
I was once accused of being a George W Bush cheerleader on the site. Actually, I'm was more of a very loyal Republican. We didn't see the big picture back then. All we wanted was to win the election. We had eight years of Clinton and the country was tired of the them. Bush ran against two bad Democrats and he had better name recognition then anyone else in the field. But that was eons ago. So much has changed. Since then we had #45 who made promises to the American people and kept them... Always putting America especially the forgotten American first. W has become a disappointing former potus. Painting portraits does not impress me much.
The contrast between him and Trump is stark.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/2/2021 10:11:39 AM (No. 773245)
Georgie you misunderstand the words nationalist and globalist you are the latter you wanted open borders you lying turdblossum.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
cheeflo 5/2/2021 10:16:02 AM (No. 773250)
Blames himself? He says this like it’s a bad thing. Immigration reform by any Bush would have us where we are, just not so brazenly.
#18 — so we found out. Enjoy your dopamine hit.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/2/2021 10:25:47 AM (No. 773259)
People are $$$. Politics is fueled by $$$. What's there not to understand?
Those who go to Washington to honestly make a difference are the exceptions that prove the rule. Those who get to Washington are rarely neophytes in politics, needing to generally raise millions for election to a seat. Try fundraising...it's not a simple game. Backers want commitments on issues. Ask the US Chamber of Commerce about immigration...which amounts to open borders. It is very apparent that illegal workers undercut the market cost of labor by taking cash under the table. Latin American emigres work hard for less...and unskilled labor is difficult to find with the level of government "safety net" programs that abound. (Add up the benefits; see what the working income equivalent is these days.) Thirteen percent of the population, Black Americans, has largely been written off as unproductive.
It wasn't any Republicans that talked Dubya out of reform. It was the vehement reaction of Americans when they discovered how far reaching "reform" went and how close the Senate was to passing it. Rush and talk radio killed this, not the politicians.
Looking back, Dubya was the Biden of his times. Had 9/11 never occurred, he would have been a one-termer like his father.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 5/2/2021 10:29:45 AM (No. 773261)
If only Gore or J Effin' had won, things would have been so much better.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/2/2021 10:43:20 AM (No. 773275)
This family is dead to US.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Debrawr 5/2/2021 10:44:28 AM (No. 773276)
So he admits it's an uprising.
He'd better check with his pal Obama, because he says it's astroturf.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 5/2/2021 10:50:13 AM (No. 773284)
Go away W, you were better than the alternative at the time, but it appears now, not by much.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/2/2021 10:54:27 AM (No. 773291)
GW inherited his fathers lust for an open borders "New World Order" with "inclusiveness." The entire Bush family is a hideous disgrace to the GOP. GHWB was a Blue Blood Republican who represents the party of Rockefeller and the 1950's.
"Populism" on every topic is the "New, New World Order." Get used to it.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/2/2021 11:13:48 AM (No. 773312)
Remember Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, a Rino and pro abortion? Even nominal republicans screamed and we got Justice Alito, Thank God! Of course, the demonrats had to rough him up and made his wife cry in the Senate confirmation. But Justice Alito today is one of our hero justices, no thanks to W.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/2/2021 11:19:15 AM (No. 773318)
Gosh, W, there’s so much you need to apologize for, and this is what you choose to regret?
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Krause 5/2/2021 12:23:54 PM (No. 773378)
The last populist president lowered taxes, creating tons of jobs, caused wages to rise, lowered unemployment, defeated ISIS, built up the military and stopped the invasions of the Mexican border. Yeah, never again, right?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/2/2021 12:54:47 PM (No. 773406)
The Bush family is responsible for the rise of populism, but not for the reason s GWB thinks. GWB didn't crack down on illegals, and his stupid brother (married to the daughter of a sometime illegal) called illegal immigration an "act of love," making it quite clear where his sympathies lay.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/2/2021 12:55:14 PM (No. 773407)
How about blaming yourself for thousands of dead and maimed soldiers and Marines, you piece of...
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Bush Romney Cheney Ryan McPain McConnel McCarthy Collins Murkowski
Just a few of the reasons why we need a truly Conservative party and not a party full of fakers as phony as the six o’clock news!!
And our own conservative tv news network too!
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
LissaMD 5/2/2021 1:24:47 PM (No. 773426)
I visited the George W. Bush Presidential Library at SMU a couple of years back. I was a bit taken aback to see that, in my humble opinion, it was a theme of justifying and apologizing for decisions made post 9/11. Quite honestly.....it was lame. Nice of him to support Biden in this statement......did he ever ONCE support Trump?
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 5/2/2021 1:49:30 PM (No. 773438)
He should blame himself for wanting to destroy American jobs, infllicting criminals on the country, and then trying to make Americans that truly believe in sovereignty feel guilty about not allowing this to happen. He wants the exact same thing as Obiden, but only a little slower. The same can be said of establishment republicans' view on much of the "progressive" agenda - the same outcome only a little slower.
The scales have been removed from our eyes with the highly successful, conservative presidency of Donald Trump. We have seen the truth about what can be achieved if only one has the proper motivation. We learned how corrupted both sides of the aisle are, and saw the extent of their contempt for us and our chosen president. They stole the 2020 election, and we will never forgive, forget, or return to the DC business as usual. No more.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
ragu 5/2/2021 2:18:10 PM (No. 773452)
I've been done with Bush for quite a while.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/2/2021 3:36:00 PM (No. 773489)
Unfortunately G. W. Bush is of the globalist investor class and could careless if the country becomes flooded with enough cheap foreign labor (illegal aliens), so that the American labor that would have to compete for available jobs with all that cheap foreign labor would only be able to earn the federal minimum wage or just above that amount. A basic factor in the law of labor supply and demand is that the lower labor wage rates are, the more profits there would be for the investor class. That’s why the DC political UniParty that is loaded up with members of the investor class, and were so happy to see corporations move millions of what were American jobs to low wage countries where their labor costs were so much lower. Trump understood that game and really worried the DC political UniParty, that Trump who supported American labor first, would get in position to kick over their financial Apple carts. That’s why the UniParty political class worked so hard to get rid of Trump.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
jasmine 5/2/2021 4:10:24 PM (No. 773497)
What nonsense. When GW Bush dropped the ball on stopping illegal immigration, he most certainly did NOT blame himself. He called Americans who tried to patrol the border themselves "vigilantes."
He had NO problem with the millions of illegal aliens flooding into our country under his "watch." He knew very well they were using stolen IDs belonging to victimized American citizens, running "businesses" buying and selling fake IDs, hiding their criminal histories, avoiding taxes, crowding our schools, joining gangs, and taking advantage US taxpayers.
He foolishly neglected his duty to American citizens, and our national interests. The New World Order requires self serving "leaders" to replace old-fashioned ideas like national sovereignty and electing our own leaders, with what unelected global bureaucrats covet: Power and wealth to be redistributed globally, as they see fit. Globalists and dupes continue trashing Americans, our history, and our Constitution in order to persuade us we are a nation so deplorable we are beyond redemption. It's not hard to recognize globalists. They're the voices demanding Americans come last on their own soil. That is a very sick vision, and one President Donald Trump saw right through.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Jackie 5/2/2021 5:29:07 PM (No. 773523)
For 8 damn years you sat there with your thumb you know where and let the Muslim dope tear this country apart. Never said a word. You thought that squishy POS brother of yours was going to be up next Now you need to sthu and go back to your gated community. You called the people watching the illegals coming over vigilantes ..how dare you now try and make it sound like you were so busy with Social Security you just didn't get it done. You and daddy were the big boosters of this One World Order. take over. I hope you have to answer for that when you have taken your last breath ..I so detest the coward you are and most likely always was.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
Ribicon 5/2/2021 5:33:25 PM (No. 773525)
“Mr. President, my pledge to you and your government—but, more importantly, the people of Mexico—is I will work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform.”
President George W. Bush to President Felipe Calderone - Joint Press Conference, Mexico, March, 2007.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Connor 5/2/2021 6:38:35 PM (No. 773561)
Bush cannot help trying not to offend liberals. He just wants to be part of the cool kids.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/2/2021 9:22:35 PM (No. 773650)
I also was a Dubya booster here, voter and donor. No point in crying over spilled milk now. At the time it seemed great and I wanted revenge from the Muslims that got US on September 11, 2001. I did not realize at the time that the Masons had a New World Order in mind. Donald Trump, he of the great presidency, opened our eyes, and there will be no going back to the Illuminati Globalist anti-Ameicanism. We are all Trump now.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/2/2021 9:29:17 PM (No. 773656)
Arrogant idiot. GW don't like people having a say in how their lives are ran, dismisses it as populism. You are a very stupid man, GW.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
ASU86PE 5/2/2021 10:06:00 PM (No. 773676)
My BIGGEST disappointment with "W" was allowing the murder of Terri "Schiavo" - Schindler . She really had no husband and her parents were willing to keep her alive.
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Unlike the devious Republicans, the Democrats at least are forthright in their desire to dismantle the USA.