The Nerd's Eye View

Boy, you'd think that after the drubbing the Repulican's took in the recent elections that they'd be a little more careful. It just goes to show how far out of touch these folks are with reality. Actually that's not entirely true, what really shows how out of touch with reality is the contents of a report on immigration reform that was released by the Missouri state senate.

The report asserts that the illegal immigration problem has a lot to do with the availability of jobs - jobs which would otherwise have been employing one of the "44 million Americans" who had been aborted in utero since the legalization of abortion. That's right, if it weren't for all those abortions, there wouldn't even be a bunch of low-paying jobs for illegal immigrants to move into! What a revelation! Apparently the only thing keeping those positions open is the lack of a homegrown workforce.

Ignore for a second that the US birthrate has kept the population of the country growing (congratulations baby number 3,000,001! You get a free toaster!). Ignore, also, that the jobs being filled by illegals tend to be of the low-paying, long hours, no benefits variety that Americans tend not to like. You know, a Wal-Mart job. But apparently Americans don't like those types of jobs since liberal welfare policies have made sure that the Americans that escaped the abortion fad that swept the nation like the mullet are far too lazy. After all it's so much easier to just live "high on the hog" with government assistance than to get a job.

Boy I sure do envy those welfare moms! I mean imagine the rock star lifestyle that government assistance lends them! So much more than having a job could do! Well, perhaps much more than a job at the current depressed minimum wage.

The report was apparently so embarassing that the Democrats on the committee refused to even put their names on it. It goes without saying that the Republicans all put their individual John Hancock's on there. The same Republicans that resist the moves to increase the minimum wage. The same Republicans that assume that aborted fetuses will no doubt grow to back fill all the menial jobs in the country. The same Republicans who smilingly clap Wal-Mart on the back, as they abuse the workers they do actually have. But it'd be soooo much easier to just outlaw abortion, and wait the 16-18 years necessary for the resulting children to be raised, poorly or well, deprived or provided for, and - possibly! - take those plum positions doing lawn work, cleaning office buildings, and harvesting produce. Which is pretty much consistent with the overall approach that the Republican party has taken towards most of the problems that are facing the country.

It certainly has made me glad that I am not in politics. Where else is causality ignored so strenuously and logic just tossed aside so lightly?