I went to a site which matches up with the candidates based on a host of issues. It came up with Dennis K.

I was cruising right along, strong correspondence on every point, until we got to immigration.

Big oops.

BIG. Brick wall at speed splat.

His position on this issue makes a complete hash of every other issue he purports to stand for whether it is education, the vast and increasing disparity of wealth, health care, social justice, civil rights, economic insecurity, the environmental degradation and so forth.

Every single one of these things are negatively impacted by excess immigration and illegal immigration in particular.

I'd so like to sit down with Sen. K over a couple of pitchers of good ale and try my damnedest to dissuade him from supporting yet another self defeating amnesty and 'guest workers' and the whole shooting match.

>sigh<

rom: http://www.growthism.com/

Immigration-to-Ruin

"It is apparent that despite the opposition of the great majority, our ruling elites and corporate oligarchs force upon us a predatory immigration policy - i.e., the idea is to continually lower wages, terrorize existing labor forces with a continual supply of new entrants willing to work for less, and prevent unions, etc.

In effect, Mexican and Latin American workers leave their villages, remove manpower and brainpower from building their own communities, leave behind families, destroy family structure, and allow Catholic nations to export their surplus humanity and facilitate corrupt regimes. Given the huge numbers of people involved year after year, they migrate to live in overcrowded surroundings, lower property values, overwhelm the environment and schools, and lower wages.

To complete the domestic devastation immigrants send billions back to Mexico and do not spend it in the local economy. At the same time we are forced to pay the immense social costs of education, births, and medical care of non-citizens and illegal immigrants. The idea that we, the vast majority, are somehow benefiting from this situation is absurd.

Today, we hear the Social Security excuse for immigration-to-ruin. The premise is that we have to import more workers to offset the post WWII demographic bulge. This implies that older generations wish to inflict endless population growth and eco-ruin on their own children and grandchildren. Nothing could be further from the truth. The solutions to Social Security funding problems are relatively easy but the plan of the one-world corporate masters is to increase immigration and birth rates for "growth" demands it."

http://www.paulchefurka.ca/

The graphic at the top of the page,'The Age of Oil', pretty much says it all.

Well, okay, maybe not all. Read or download the pdf: World Energy and Population - The WEAP Model.

How fast? Pretty damned fast indeed. Brick wall. Splat.

"The world simply does not have the resources, renewable or otherwise, to sustain Western lifestyles across the globe." - Eamon O'Hara

I highly recommend it.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go pursue the intriguing question of how some Popes named Leo got themselves entangled with contract law...may have to refer this to wordsmith.com.

'So, the whole colorful motley of hedge-fund gunslingers, private-equity barons, bond insurers, CDO traders, and fixed-income investors — the whole out-of-control business of steepling M&As, of vast share buybacks (and hence of main-market equity market performance, as well as emerging market re-rating) — the whole self-aggrandizing swagger of the Bulge Bracket bonus bonanza — all of it — every last red cent of it — has been, in turn, cause and effect of the build-up of the storm system which now threatens to sweep this Big Easy of false prosperity away, leaving little but the matchwood of shattered dreams and disabused expectations in its wake.' - Twilight of the Gods By Sean Corrigan

http://www.mises.org/story/2706

Say what?

Leonine, adjective,

1) of or relating to one of the popes named Leo, esp. Leo IV and the part of Rome that he fortified.

2) a kind of Latin verse, generally alternate hexameter and pentameter rhyming in the middle and end.

- Oxford American Dictionary

ditto Chambers Twentieth Century

Who knew the Pigmen were so literate?

'But a crisis caused by repeated asset inflation can probably not be cured by even more of the same. As the Fed tries to solve the problem by pouring gasoline on the fire; as the Presidency and Congress continue a war America can't afford; as everyone fiddles around the edges with technical fixes to problems that go deeper than that, the situation would just get worse and worse.' - Ian Welsh, The Next Hoover

http://agonist.org/ian_welsh/20071001/the_next_hoover

That would be Dear Alan G. of course.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3peAYJSJSg

'Income inequality in the US today has reached extremes not seen since the 1920s, but the trend started three decades earlier. More than $1 trillion a year in relative income is now being shifted annually from roughly 90,000,000 middle and working class families to the wealthiest households and corporations via corporate profits earned from low-wage workers overseas. '

Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism

Henry C.K. Liu

http://www.henryckliu.com/page143.html

"But again, one would have to be blessed with some infinitessimal scintilla of integrity such as would inspire them to actually find out what the facts are, rather than just braying on a topic about which they are monstrously and willfully uninformed. But ignorant ideology is always so much more exciting when it is untroubled by the tedious effort of involved in learning facts."

-- gherstein

With the small quibble that it's 'infinitesimal'. Righteous indignation occasionally overpowers spelling.

"American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane."

- Jonathan Chait