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I heard a protester say today something to the effect that she’d heard complaints that ‘undocumented workers’ don’t pay taxes. She said she paid taxes every time she buys something.

This isn’t a good time to make that argument so soon after April 15th.

We all pay our taxes and not just on the goods we buy in the stores. What this lady didn’t seem to understand was that there are taxes on our income. Those taxes are being over-taxed by a system that offers FREE medical care and services to illegal immigrants who do not pay taxes on their incomes.

Taxes on purchases just doesn’t cover the costs.

Another group of illegal aliens who were protesting today were being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera. Bless his heart! He was carrying on about how ‘patriotic’ they were.

Meanwhile, they were saying things like, ‘I’m here to support MY people’ and ‘We have a RIGHT to the American life like everyone else.’

MY people? Who are ‘MY people’. See, what this person didn’t understand is that if you want to assimilate into OUR culture - we are your people. AMERICA is your people. Red and yellow, black and white. WE. The People.

And RIGHTs? What rights? You are illegally in this country. You have no rights as citizens. You certainly don’t have the right to push to the head of the line. What about the people who have been playing by the rules and going about obtaining citizenship properly? Are they to be just shoved aside so that you can have your ‘rights’. Rights to DEMAND the rights of a citizen? A citizen who knows that using public welfare costs money to SOMEONE. We understand that because it comes out of our paychecks. Every single paycheck. AND, we don’t qualify to receive those services - we just pay for them.

So yes, it irritates us just a tad.

If you had gone through the proper channels for citizenship you might have understood that.

The National Anthem broo-ha-ha is really the icing on the cake. Talk about not getting it!

YOU DON’T come to THIS country and CHANGE our National Anthem. Not just the language, but the words and the MEANING! Then try to claim it was just a ‘translation problem’. We aren’t quite that gullible. I’ve read the words in Spanish - that’s not ‘lost in translation’ - it’s defiance at the worst or a total lack of understanding at the best.

I went back to find a post by Dr. David Yeager that I linked to a while back. Last Call for Patriotism [h/t to Seaspook]

Dr. Yeager has a thought provoking analysis of America the Beautiful.

What I brought from his analysis is that not only have the illegal immigrants not grasped the meaning of the words. But many, if not most, Americans, have either lost, or never quite gotten, the meaning.

Mexicans are deceived, deluded, doped, and otherwise abused. They should be revolting against the government of their own stinking, rotten, filthy country. (Anyone who has ever been there knows what I’m talking about.) If the American government wants to show “compassion” on the Mexicans, then finance a second revolution!

Either that or invade Mexico, take over the country, and correct the idiotic selfishness that has reigned there for the last 200 years. Instead of bleeding America to death, the morally retarded dupes in Washington should cut off the head that bites the hand that feeds it. The Mexican government is antiquated beyond reason. It cannot sustain itself in modern times. Two years ago, half a million Mexicans marched on Mexico City to protest the rampant crime in the country. It is a lawless land. The people live in fear. Mexico is another Iraq, at our back door step. The media keeps all this out of view, but it won’t be kept out of view for ever. Mexica is a polluted hell-hole, and deserves to be routed. It is infectious and malignant, and America is suffering the consequences.

America the Beautiful

America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

Katharine Lee Bates, 1893

Self-control? Success is Nobleness? Do we love our country more than ourselves? Is our flag stained with selfish gain?

Our liberty is based in law?

Think about it …..

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