We've all seen the Rube Goldberg apparatus where the money is dumped into a funnel at one end, goes round and round in a maze of gears, tubing and inter-connected steaming kettles, and bingo, out pops some sort of product at the other end.
Well, today, in america, the vast number of illegal aliens abroad in the land are finally getting their long awaited fair shake in the america's lucrative housing market. Our money is now being poured into a similar strobiloid at one end and a home full of happy "undocumented" workers, as this growing nomadic band of the footloose and fancy free is always called by their liberal cheerleaders, pops out the other end.
How, may you ask, is this possible for folks without social security numbers to obtain federally subsidized loans? Especially for scofflaws who are living here off the grid and below the radar? For this burgeoning number of illegal lamsters? Well, presto change-o, you just use taxpayer ID's, and to heck with those troublesome and often difficult to obtain soscurity numbers, which are thought to be discriminatory anyway.
That's right. Folks at the local acorn Housing Corporation in San Diego, in cooperation with CitiBank, are now reported to be leading the way in shoveling untold mountains of cash to the southern vagabonds by the simple and powerful expediency of the tax payer ID number. No need to have what the rest of us poor fools, who were actually born here have to have. No reason to require these simple trespassers to obtain legal status, like those who pay the incredibly high tax rates and who procure legal paperwork like a birth certificate and a social security number, no sirree. These requirements no longer apply in this brave new world of illegal immigration, banking, home buying, easy qualification, a pat on the back, a wink and a nod.
and if that isn't enough, there's information that these loans can be acquired for no money down and with rates one percent below the market current market rate. Talk about a red carpet.
Does anybody in their right mind think that programs like this one, which promise no money down housing with rates below market without an SS number, might, somehow, someway, in some fashion, drive more honest and simple working folk to climb the fences, crawl through the brightly lit subterranean highways which seem to lie below much of suburban San Diego, and climb aboard the cattle trucks and truck trailers that already bring them north by the millions?
Wow, is all I can say. We can't turn these folks away from free medical care, they clamber across the border pregnant to bring a freshly minted US citizen into the world and we end up supporting the entire clan, they are qualifying in record numbers for social security and SSI benefits and their advocates are pushing all the time for them to garner tuition deals better than US citizens qualify for. Now these same folks are grabbing home ownership courtesy of a partnership between a willing US government, a big ticket US bank, a special program and new age community activists, who are helping to lasso the folks in the wild and bring 'em in to sign.
Once the illegal alien acquires a home in the good old US of a, what do you think the chances of ejecting him will be? Will the guys and gals at the INS really risk the PR problems that marked the Elian Gonzales smash and grab in order to eject a band of illegals from the fireside in what will no doubt be a massively contrived media circus, featuring helicopters, lights, sound and the grave forecasts of the talking heads on the televised news? and if there's a Democrat in the White House the chances of an ejection go to nil, the program will be solidified and even more border rovers will be summoned north.
and you know there's quite a market out there for these loans, what with the non-existence of any sort of solid southern border security, with about ten million illegals running loose in america right now, with the units Mexican army being routinely stranded on our side of the border and with about 150,000 OTM's (other than Mexicans--meaning your Syrians, Iranians, Yemenis and Serbians) estimated to be on the dodge in the US now.
It's time for our leadership--from President Bush in the White House, to the House and Senate--to put a sock in the incentives, tighten the borders, improve our security, round up the riff-raff on their extended and expensive hegira, and to start operating the place a little bit more like a business.
Sure the Democrats will howl about the insensitivity of it all and cry about the inhumanity, but I'm growing a bit tired about supporting this long and seemingly endless line of intinerant mendicants winding their way north through the minimal obstacle course we laughingly call a border for the free handouts in Uncle Sap's 24 hour super saver. and a home, so easily acquired and financed, strikes me as the ultimate in casual inducements to further border incursions.
and, then, yesterday I heard on the news that the Dallas, Texas, school board is trying to hire illegal aliens as teachers for their bilingual programs, even though this particularly bad batch of curriculum has been thoroughly discredited and debunked for its failure to get anything done in either language, anywhere.
Dallas is facing a few hurdles, of course, especially in the hiring of non-citizens, and will need to change a federal law or two. But with a few top trial lawyers on the case, with the power of liberal bureaucracies backing them, a few fustian vituperations from somebody associated with the NEa, and with a few meaningless reports supporting their efficacy churned out by a liberal think tank, I'm sure they'll take a good whack at it, overlook the jokes that abound in bi-lingual ed and bring home the bacon.
Nothing changes the idea of dangerous criminal interlopers into mild-mannered paragons of the community quicker than the idea of a relatively cheap and inexpensive homestead, with Uncle Sam on the hook for the bill, with our money in the till, with no money down and with a tax ID for identification.
and, in Dallas, nobody can transform an illegal alien into an educator quicker than a school board with a contract, freshly minted US government specie as part of the show and tell and a change or two in the law.
as Cindy Lauper says, money changes everything.
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