Thread: Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell

Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell

By Lou Dobbs
CNN

Wednesday, May 24, 2006; Posted: 12:30 p.m. EDT (16:30 GMT)

Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears every Wednesday on CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush says that the installation of the new Iraqi government was a "watershed event," but at the same time warns Americans of the challenges and loss as we continue to prosecute the war against Iraqi insurgents. Sen. Harry Reid declares that legislation that would render English the national language is racist.

Thirty-seven Democrats vote for full amnesty for all illegal aliens in this country, even though nobody really knows whether the number is 11 million, 12 million or 20 million. The Senate Republican leadership demands that a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan must be passed before this Memorial Day weekend. And the president signs into law a tax cut that raises taxes on the educational funds of teenagers saving for college.

Never before in our country's history have both the president and Congress been so out of touch with most Americans. Never before have so few of our elected officials and corporate leaders been less willing to commit to the national interest. And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.(Watch why Dobbs said Mexico's leader is in charge of U.S. immigration policy -- 3:16)

George W. Bush's approval ratings have slumped to the lowest of his presidency. The approval rating for Congress is even lower, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

But what is our government doing about that? The president is staying the course in Iraq and apparently demanding little of his generals to create a new, far more effective strategy for urgent success. Of course, he also wants a guest-worker program and amnesty of millions of illegal aliens. And Congress, faced with midterm elections in just over five months, is intent on giving the president what he wants and telling working men and women and their families, American citizens all, to go to hell.

Illegal aliens are more important to this Congress than securing our borders and our ports, more important than those legal immigrants who have waited in line and who follow the law. The Senate has added to the litany of lunacy that makes up what it calls reform: Illegal aliens would only have to pay back taxes on three of the past five years, they will not be prosecuted for felonies such as identity theft or purchasing or using fraudulent Social Security cards, and unlike millions of visa holders who have to leave the country to have them renewed, they may simply remain in the United States while this Congress and this president give away all the benefits and privileges of American citizenship.

This is an outright assault in the elitist war on the middle class. And working men and women who've already borne the pain of losing good-paying manufacturing jobs and having middle-class jobs outsourced to cheap foreign labor markets are faced with the onslaught of more illegal immigration and cheap labor into the American economy. This president and Congress talk about bringing illegal aliens out of the shadows while they turn out the lights on our middle class.

President Bush and his most trusted advisers tell us how well our economy is doing, how many jobs have been created and how so-called free trade will enrich the lives of the same people whose livelihoods these policies are destroying.

It's hard not to think of the trusted adviser to Catherine the Great who sought to hide from her the embarrassing and shoddy condition of Ukrainian and Crimean villages by having elaborate facades built to divert her attention and to mask an uncomfortable reality. I don't know whether Karl Rove is President Bush's Grigori Potemkin or whether George Bush has created Potemkin villages all by himself. But the facades are cracking, and phony fronts of failed policies are quickly crumbling.

Six thousand unarmed National Guardsmen working as adjunct rear support to our undermanned, under-equipped Border Patrol is not border security. Three million illegal aliens continue to cross our borders and depress wages by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The millions of manufacturing and middle-class jobs lost over the last five years have been replaced by lower-wage employment.

The president's faith-based commitment to so-called free trade will likely lead to a $1 trillion U.S. current account deficit this year and a trade debt of $4.5 trillion after 30 years of trade deficits. And while the president and Congress point to No Child Left Behind as a solution to our educational crisis, we're failing an entire generation of Americans whose test scores continue to fall and whose high school dropout rates would be embarrassing to a third-world country.

And a third-world country is what we will be if our elected officials don't soon come to their senses.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/23/dobbs.may24/index.html

I heard him say this it was greaaaaaaaaattttt as tony use to say for those of you who are old enough to know who Tony was I am wondering, do we need to send Lou to Congress or"president" or do we need him worse right where he is? IF not for Lou we would be in very bad shape here!

YOU GO LOU!!!!!

It does my heart good to have someone tell the truth (it seems to happen so infrequently)

Yeah! Thumbs up Lou!
Now what to do aout Insane McCaintrying to smear that Good- Hardworking - Honest Talking- US Citizens by calling them Nativist!
By the way what's wrong with being Nativist?

Yes I heard Lou say that and it is assuredly true. We will tell those politicians that voted for amnesty to go to hell at election time

All by myself I'm having a tax revolt. It has been shown that these illegals will cost the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS half a trillion in the first ten years...and LOTS MORE after that...

I'm NOT paying.

MJ

Thank God for Lou Dobbs.

mustangjoe - that is the one thing that I think would get attention is Washington is a tax revolt. If American citizens in mass said "I will not pay for this government that does not represent me any longer" they would most assuredly pay attention. The federal government would have their income cut off. All everyone has to do is adjust their W4 so no federal income tax is deducted and it is very easy to do.

What could they do about it if a majority of Americans did this? Nothing. They cannot put half the country in jail.

You are correct. They can do nothing. All you have to do is fill in the form (I've forgotten the number of the danged form) that states that no withholding should be taken as you will take care of that yourself.

That's what most people do who work and also have a business on the side which allows them to save a lot in taxes.

If hundreds of thousands of us refused to pay, they can't put us all in jail. It can take years and years and years of non filing before they get really threatening.

I mean, what the heck, there are already millions of illegal aliens refusing to pay by showing so many dependents ....which they don't even have to prove.

MJ

Yep. If our government can pick and choose which laws to enforce, it seems only fair that we, the AMERICAN people, can pick and choose a law or two to ignore.