Comments on: Turn Off the Faucet /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/ Politics + Technology = Nonsense at the Speed of Light Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: phactoid /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-136 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:22:00 +0000 /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-136 Why do we feel compelled to add poor countries as protectorates, e.g., Guam? Can’t we aim higher, perhaps adding a country as a state or protectorate that could improve our GNP? How about Canada, I’d rather add Canada as a state. Or how about Sweden who says that it will be free from its dependency on foreign oil by 2020?

Are you ready for anti-gringo day? Some how this is not considered racist. It used to be white males who were politically correct to bash, now it’s just anyone white.

The old addage “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” is just as true with countries as it is in suburbia. And could we use a good neighbor.

]]> By: flippityflopitty /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-135 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:35:00 +0000 /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-135 Its probably cheaper to offer mexico statehood than build a fence the way this country operates.

I dont know why the congress is pandering to anyone. Do they really believe the II will feel compelled to vote for these stooges once they are granted the right to vote?

]]> By: Tanstaafl /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-128 Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:13:00 +0000 /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-128 It would of course be far easier to build a fence than to amend the Constitution.

]]> By: phactoid /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-127 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:32:00 +0000 /2006/04/15/turn-off-the-faucet/#comment-127 Would the founding fathers ever have thought that Congress would pander to a foreign constituency? That’s the underlying problem. On the face of it, Congress is acting so illogically, i.e., trying to mop up the mess without turning off the faucet, that it makes one wonder exactly why? The reason is the 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) that states in part “[a]ll persons born … in the United States…are citizens of the United States…” The 10 million or more illegal aliens have children that are by right of birth US citizens. That’s to whom Congress panders. And why not? If Congress grants amnestia they get the 10 million illegals as constituents too. The 14th Amendment undermines national security by granting those here illegally citizenship by progeny proxy. Of course at the time of ratification I’m sure it was impossible to predict this would happen because law makers in the states that ratified the 14th Amendment were depending upon laws securing our borders to be enforced. The bottom line is that the U.S. must either secure its borders or repeal the 14th Amendment. Otherwise the United States will be conquered by Mexico.

]]>