Interesting Quinnipiac poll on whether Washington should rescue Detroit - breaks down much as you'd expect, Republicans strongly oppose, Independents strongly oppose, Democrats are obviously conflicted and slightly support, Blacks of course strongly support - but here's the interesting bit, Hispanics support a rescue, not overwhelmingly so, but it's pronounced - okay, I get why blacks support it, but why the hell would Hispanics be so inclined to buy in? Is it because as a culture they tend to see government as something that should be big and activist and always willing to rush in and undo the damage evil rich white guys do even though evil rich white guys had very little to do with what happened to Detroit?
Which brings us of course to immigration reform, which really means amnesty for illegals and border security. I can't support amnesty, wish I could, really do, but I just don't see how it doesn't end with the country being irretrievably pulled to the left and as I've said many times before I don't believe great powers can be governed from the left, certainly not the far left favored by Obama et al - left wing sympathies are the ruination of power. Plus there's another problem - black youth unemployment is at 40%, youth unemployment as a whole is at more than 20% - illegal immigrants do the types of jobs these unemployed youths should be doing - with amnesty we're basically signing off on creating an underclass of unemployed youth who will grow up to be two things, miscreants or variations thereof utterly dependent on gov't and therefore loyal Democratic voters. Why are we doing this? It seems crazy - I get that businesses don't wanna hire these youths for various reasons untold [unreliable tops list I imagine] but why aren't we saying if you're under 25 and on gov't assistance you have to take that dishwasher job, period? I worked as a dishwasher when I was 18, wasn't so bad.
