What will President Bush's plan do, and are there any opposing plans being considered?
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Guest workers sound great in theory.  But it will be like having illegals with a voice.  Are they citizens?  No.  But they will march just like the pro-illegals marching tomorrow, and guest workers will have a legal foundation to their argument.  People will be more sympathetic:  "Oh, we invited them in."\n\nI'm against the guest worker program.  Read the following.  It's long but good, and I wrote it.\n\n----\n\n\nIllegals aliens are NOT citizens.  They have only HUMAN rights in the USA.  THAT'S IT.  They have no Constitutionally guaranteed rights.\n\nDeporting them is NOT a civil rights issue.  We have the right to manage our immigration policy however we see fit.\n\nAnd regarding compassion, I have tons of compassion for them.  But we have a country to run, and we can't let people just waltz into the USA.  WE CAN'T ALLOW THEM TO IMPORT POLITICS.  Poor, uneducated, illiterate people tend to like SOCIALISM.  I don't.  I'm not talking about good all-american bleeding heart liberalism. I'm talking about Castro quality SOCIALISM.\n\nAlso, they are massing in the Southwest by the MILLIONS.  Do you realize that the population of TEXAS is 22 million.  And the proposed legislation wants to make 12 million illegals citizens.  And MOST of those are in the Southwest.  So, don't you think the people of these states have the right to not get their vote diluted by potential SOCIALISTS. This is not about race.  I have no problem with people who are here legally.  But when you allow millions of people in, they congregate together and hold the same political leanings (like allegiance to Mexico and socialistic beliefs).  The fact that most can't speak English just strengthens their solidarity and reinforces their beliefs because they can't understand what most Americans are saying.\n\nThis has the makings of ethnic strife written all over it.  Look at Northern Ireland. Iraq. France. Cyprus. Sudan. Turkey AND Iran with the Kurds.  Quebec in France.  Rwanda.  Yugoslavia.  Chechnya.  China.  And let's not forget Mexico itself, with the indian uprising in the Chiapis.  There is a clear correlation between ethnic strife and large areas that do not integrate into the whole.  This is what will happen if we have entire cities with millions of new non-English speaking citizens spring up in the southwest.  And this will happen if we have an open border.  The 12 million that we're talking about right now is just a start.  What about the next 30 years???  \n\nThe homogeneous culture of America is probably what made America as great as it is.  It is the most populace country in the world with a homogeneous culture.  Yes, we are filled with different races, religions, and ethnicities.  But they all came in, interacted with the other ethnicities, and diffused into living side by side.  Small areas did spring up with primarily one race/religion/ethnicity -- and there was almost always some amount of strife in that area.  Fortunately the areas were small enough to not expand to the level of a national conflict.\n\nAnd don't be fooled by the "guest worker" program.  They'll still be dirt poor, but "legal."  Then they'll have a basis for petitioning for rights.  They WILL want citizenship EN MASSE.  It will be the exact same situation, but worse since they'll have been INVITED.\n\nThe best outcome would be that we can integrate them all in.  But that will not happen.  They are poor.  We are typically the product of our homes, and the homes will be uneducated and spanish speaking.  The second best outcome would be a peaceful secession.\n\nPersonally, I'd rather pay a dollar more per pound of oranges, rather than have my kids or grandkids bombed or have to fight a civil war.
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Bush is concerned about the American people...in terms of what they think of him. Of course, since he has no chance in hell of re-election (amendment limiting the number of terms a president can serve to two), he might as well get real and stop trying to bs us with his sucky speeches and vague promises. Pretty much, I think he is trying to finish out this term without getting assassinated - that seems to be his goal. Also, he must perform well because all the eyes of the world are on him.
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I am Soooooooo glad this is happening.  Republicans are going to have to worry about what theiCONSTITUENTSTS want - we are going into the mid terms and Bush has placed them in an impossible bind.  They will have to override Bushes veto and end his leadership of the party.   How could Bush have gotten this so wrong? \n\nMy guess is that Bush, who likes to hold hands with princes from the Arab Emirates,( check out the footage of him walking and holding hands with Prince Bandar  ), has more vested interests in the financial dealings with Gulf Coast Arab nations - than his own country. \n\nThe Bushes are also  good friends of the Bin Laudens too.\n\nThis is not going down well.  I don't honestly know if this is really a security concern, but Dubai has two of the hijackers, if laundered the money for the 9/11 attack and REFUSED US invetigators access to financial records.\n\nThis port deal has a bad feel to it.  A 62-2 vote in Congress passed to block this Dubai port deal. The acquisition of any leases, transfer is prohibited\nand attached to a bill the president wil find hard to veto. \n\nWith the President's poll levels at their lowest, its time for Republican congressmen to distance themselves.\n\nThis action by the appropriations committes is VETO proof. \nWhat options does the White House have?
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President Bush is one of the few political leaders who seems to make decisions based on what is right for this country and the world as opposed to the opposition who seem to push for only regaining power for their party.   What is good for this country is bad for the democratic party.
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Hm that is an interesting idea.\n\nWell I think Washington would approve of Bush trying to increase Homeland Security and such.  I think that Washington, however, may be mad with Bush's use of the troops or at least how he treats the troops.  (How there wasn't enough armour both on soldiers and on vehicles)\n\nThat's just my opinion about another's opinion.  I like seeing that you like asking unbiased questions.  That's good to see.
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With a Democratic Congress, Bush won't be able to freely do what he wants. It's called a balance of power.\n\nBush hasn't technically been checked in the past with a Republican Congress! That will change. And because both parties share power....more may actually get done.
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I think it is going to be an interesting couple of years! I don't know if Bush will Veto everything!
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I heard a reliable story the plan was to put Bush there.  They plan to use the 20 million set aside for the Iraq Victory party to pay for it.
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Undo all the damage BushCo has done and pass a single Executive Order negating every one he and the last 2 predecessors had declared....including repealing the Military Commissions Act which would re-institute Habeus Corpus. This would re-establish the US Constitution as THE supreme law of the land instead of what a small group of plutocrats privately decide. \n\nThen abolish the privately owned Federal Reserve bank and return the creation of money back to the people whom it belongs. This would also establish the tax code as it was originally designed to be - leaving a man's wages alone.
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I think that it is a well thought out plan for anti-terroisum because the extremest that want to hurt the us go to iraq and attack well trained soilders rather than u.s. civillins. soilders fight back civlians cry and would then complain about how the president and the government is not protecting them when in fact thats what the soilders in iraq are doing right now! Bush is a great president and if you dont like this country leave its as simple as that. as for the soilders we are proud of what we do and i say we because i am one and i feel like one year is nothing if you look at other wars that we have fought one year is nothing in ww2 soilders were gone for 3 or 4 years. we do whats right and all we ask for is respect. think about this if bush had done nothing about the sept 11 attacks how many other civilians would have died though other terroist attacks i would love to shake the presidents hand
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First is he is afraid that he would not be safe. I think any such discussion would have to take place on Neutral ground. Second, I don't think Bush would know how to respond. He, like the Iranian, is very much controlled by those around him. Bush has no idea what he is doing when it comes to the middle east. He is clueless about how to handle governments he disagrees with that have power (believe me Iran has power). You can say what you want about Ahmadinejad.....he is a politician and a military man and will treat others as such. I think Iran and N. Korea are and have been the bigger threats in the world for the past decade. Now they are proving it since the US is having so much trouble subjugating the Iraqi people. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next four or five years as these two "Axis of evil" members grow in political clout and military strength.
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Oh Bush and buddies will put thro all that they can...most of it illegal or beneficial for themselves.. all will be done before January.. you can bet on that.
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Yes, Americans will allow Bush to do what he wants. The administration has succeeded in paralyzing many people into non-action. I recommend that you go here, and get invovled!\nBush is not,"We The People", but it is clear he doesn't care much what we think.\n\nhttp://www.thefourreasons.org/
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Hadn't thought of it quite this way before.  I like your take on it (you should really have published it as a fuller op-ed somewhere).\n\nHowever, I actually think that there's not a lot that Bush or any president can do here.  But having said that, I do continually wonder at Bush's (and every corporatist conservative's) blind faith that everything happens because of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand. Smith is good as far as economic THEORY goes, but there are so many externalities - including petrol-monopoly and all its trappings - that the market is hamstrung from responding as Smith himself would have predicted.
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Isn't that what the Conservatives are now doing? I do not want to live in a dictatorship and it seems as if that is what bush is all about.
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That could never happen, but if it could I would never.  first of all look what he has been doing to our country.  He has been killing soldiers, wasting money, and no wonder why everyone else hates americans.  Look how quick he is to react and help people in his own country (the way he handled katrina hurricane).  Look with the last two nominations for supreme judges, which had a huge impact and they will decide what laws and news laws will happen over their life time.  And bush will be long gone but they will still be affecting the country.  Now look what he wants to do with the american ports and have another country own and run them.  I just hope its not too late that he won't ruin us for good.  As i know the next 2 or 3 presidents will have one heck of a mess to clean up.  Just hope Democrats will win and get majority control.  That's my 2 cents.
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It is unclear how much of this is going forward.  It is clear that the Bush administration, who are globalists, did try to have discussion continue without public scrutiny.  For example, when Congressman Tancredo recently called for public hearings to find out what is going on, the press was told that the names of Americans on the working groups were not being given out 'so they wouldn't be distracted by the public'.  Compare this to Canada where the names of the people on the working groups are on the government web page.\n\nBush thinks it would be dandy to have free immigration here from Mexico for cheap labor for employees, only screening for security.  The Senate Immigration bill which contained elements having us buy and give to Mexico equipment and training for patrolling their SOUTHERN border is possibly part of this - so Bush could ease up restrictions on their northern, our southern, border.\n\nWe don't know what is going on, and some of what is guessed is probably wrong.  However, it is disturbing that these discussions have been going on for more than a year and we know so little about it.\n\nI don't know if an 'Amero' is in the works.  However, the overall idea might work with a generally equal economy like Canada.  With Mexico it would flood our services including education.  Middle class tax payers would foot the bill while corporate employers benefit from cheap labor.