On Monday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped his bid for the Republican nomination. Before dropping out, Governor Walker was one of only three out of the originally 17 Republican candidates who had even suggested our government ought to rethink rates of legal immigration with the needs of American workers, not employers, in mind. Eighty-four percent of Republicans are dissatisfied with the level of immigration we have now. Yet despite overwhelming support for reducing immigration levels, there are now only two candidates in a field of 15 supporting this majority Republican position.
One reason is the excessive influence of business support for mass immigration. Back in February, three top Republican donors, health care CEO Mike Fernandez, fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder, and private equity manager Spencer Zwick, sent a message to all potential candidates. They, and their networks of large donors, want the Republican nominee to explicitly back amnesty and increased immigration during the primary. This puts Republican candidates (who are not billionaires) in the position of choosing between donors and voters.
Clearly Walker’s own past record of support for amnesty and pressure from deep-pocketed special interests left voters unsure of Walker’s commitment to true immigration reform. For instance, in August, Walker suggested that he favored eliminating birthright citizenship. Then, the next day, a prominent multi millionaire who had donated to his campaign, Stanley Hubbard, confronted him on the issue. Hubbard also said to the Washington Post, that he would “really quickly” change his allegiance in the race if Walker continued to push against birthright citizenship. He said, however, that he was still writing checks to Walker, as apparently, what Walker said had reassured him.
Nor was Walker anxious to come down firmly in favor of reinterpreting the birthright citizenship policy. On August 21, a few days after talking to Hubbard, he said he had “no position” on the issue. Then, when George Stephanopoulos asked him if he wanted to “repeal or alter the [citizenship clause of the]14th amendment,” Walker replied that “any discussion that goes beyond securing the border and enforcing laws are things that should be a red flag to voters out there who for years have heard lip service from politicians and are understandably angry.”
It appears that politicians altering their position on immigration after talking to large donors may be the real red flag to voters who are angry.
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Our country’s leaders need to learn from history and avoid making the mistakes that led to the decline of so many empires in the past.
“….history’s great cycles do indeed repeat over and over. You are also reminded of one of history’s great tragic ironies — that all nations fail to learn the lessons of history, that all nations and their leaders fall prey to their own narcissistic hubris and that all eventually collapse from within.”
“….American leaders are merely playing their parts in the greatest of all historical dramas, repeating but never fully grasping the lessons of history….while unwittingly pushing our empire to the edge, into collapse.”—-Paul Farrell
Rubio has changed his mind several times on amnesty. During his 2010 Senate race he said amnesty only encourages more illegal entry. which is correct, but only a couple years after entering the Senate he was part of the Senate Gang of 8 and promoting amnesty with no firm assurances of border security. Now he claims that we must have border security first. He’s another empty suit like the present occupant of the White House. He will say whatever his donors pay him to say.
He is also in favor of the 12 nation Trans Pacific Partnership “free trade” deal. Another boondoggle for the American worker. Just a couple months ago he said “Every country we have free trade with, we have a surplus. Everyone one.” Which is a flat out lie. The Koreas free trade deal passed in 2012 resulted in much much larger trade deficits in the last couple years. How come the media doesn’t ask questions about that in the debates? Or where the candidates stand on e-verify for every job?
The quote from Rubio about trade deals is “Every country in the world we have free trade with, we have a surplus. Every one.”
We have by far the largest trade deficit in the world, the result of so many “free trade deals” written with the help of lobbyists for foreign countries.
A Demographic Science Approach to Population Planning?
“Its got to be Racist wildly alleges the open border heretics.”