I've read part of the Time mag today, (April 10th, 2006 issue) and now I'm going to rant about the article "Should They Stay Or Should They Go?". Here's the link to the article on Time's website.
But has this got to do with this Time's article? Well, notice the graph on the top right of the "graph section" on page 33. The one about how 72% of the people polled agree with letting illegal immigrants stay on the conditions that they: a) learn English, b) pay any back taxes, and c) have no criminal record. Also, they need to have work visas so the government can track them, and all of a), b), and c) need to be done in six years. Just FYI.
Well, after you take a look at that graph, turn to page 36, third paragraph, where they (finally!) give you a description of the polls (after 2 pages!). Now, to give anybody reading this an even more detailed idea of what I'm talking about, go to the third sentence and read. For those without Time magazine, (or for you lazy bumpkins ^.^) here's the sentence. "But only 1 in 4 would support making it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, as the House voted to do when it approved the tough enforcement bill submitted by Wisonsin Republican F. James Sensenbrenner." Wait... did they just say House?!? Ok, assuming that "House" is referring to "House of Representatives", how is it that the representatives in the "House" will vote for exactly opposite of what most of the people in America think?!? They're Representatives. And no, I don't cuss, so don't worry about censoring.
And another thing. If the President is supposed to be a servant of the country, why is it that most of the country disapproves of him? That makes him a bad servant. Now, when you have an office, and you have a worker that does not do satisfactory work, you fire them, right? So, now, there is a class of jobs called "servant" or "maid" or "cook". But since the GOP's BOB (heh, GOP stands for "Grand Old Party, and the "BOB" I just made up stands for "Big Old Bush") is neither maid or cook, let's keep it at civil servant. Now, either way, he has a job. And when somebody does a bad job of a job, the "big cheeses" usually start putting things on fire, ahem, firing people.
But the problem with Presidents is, as far as they go, it's awfully hard to go about changing Presidents as often as you eat dinner. There's gonna be a big hullabaloo about it now if you all of a sudden heard on the news that "Bush is going to the Supreme Court on a certain date for his trial of impeachment", but if it happens too often, that statement would lose it's effect. So, we usually start impeachment only when there's an abuse of power, or so Answers.com says when you look up "impeachment". Now the question is, has Bush gone too far?
need to change last 2 paras.
Monday, April 17, 2006
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2 comments:
That's the U.S. government for you. We don't have a democracy. We have a republic.
What I am saying is that Bush is no "servant" of the country. Presidents are never "servants". And it's not the other way around, either.
Even in the opposite of a democracy (which we don't have), communism, the people aren't "servants" of the government.
Why don't we have a democracy? A democracy is a form of government where EVERY SINGLE LAST DECISION that is made about the country is made directly by the citizens. Do you think we, as citizens, decide every last decision in our country? Heck no.
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