First the Sucking Next the Flushing!


In the 1992 Presidential campaign candidate Ross Perot said that if the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) pact was passed into law that the country would “hear a giant sucking sound” of manufacturing and jobs from this country being diverted outside of our borders. That down the drain noise has been loud and clear over the past 15 years and has left us with nary a peep on it. The deafening silence is the result of the “Washington knows better’” crowd that permeates the halls of Congress and the White House. If you think the sucking is over well you ain’t seen nothin’yet!

Mr. Perot’s qualifications as a successful businessman assisted in his rise, and the creation of a viable third political party (the Freedom Party) for a while. Many folks saw, and began to believe that the people actually do have a voice in the political process. Unfortunately for the country, Mr. Perot was really only interested in a voice for himself in the process, and not actually winning the Presidency. Why else would a self made multimillionaire even consider squabbling with the likes of George Bush Sr. and upstart Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton in 1992? He was ticked off at the Bush family reportedly because the administration wouldn’t get on the stick to help his cause of tracking and returning remains of Viet Nam veterans from that country. We’ll probably never know the truth on what gave Mr. Perot the desire to undermine President George Herbert Walker Bush’s Presidency; however for the record it was effective in getting Governor Clinton elected to the Presidency.

The same type of folks who did not listen to Mr. Perot in 1992 are not listening now on the country’s demand regarding immigration. The sound you are about to hear is not a giant sucking one, but a giant flushing one. That commode is in Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and any number of other places including the Middle East which is about to flush more unwanted people into this country. How’s that? Of the estimated 12 million illegal aliens already in this country was recently proposed and killed in the Senate would have allowed and encouraged family members of those illigal individuals in to the country in short order. Given the average household of lets say 4 people per family we might expect to see an influx of another 36 million aliens in short order (spouse and children to join illegal in this country already). The bills defeat in no way guarentees it will not raise its ugly specter again. In the mean-time we are at status quo; the same condition of the past two decades that has allowed the illigal population to swell to its present state.

The debate has gotten us this: if you break the law long enough we’ll consider letting you stay in this country. You can have services and some benefits natural born citizens enjoy, and even some they don’t. When was the last time you were allowed to break the law, avoid the judicial system, and pay a minor fine? When was the last time that you broke the law and the police didn’t bother to find you? As a citizen, arrest for our crimes more often than not costs more than a few thousand dollars. Never is there any reward attached to it. However, if you are an illegal alien and you have been under the radar long enough you might win your citizenship. Maybe this is why they say no country on earth is like the United States. Perhaps we should find out Mr. Perot’s views on the subject. He has been correct in the past regarding international trade. So as we trade our dollars in revenue and resources in exchange for another 40 million people we might want to ask what sound he hears coming over the next decade or two. Such an influx flushed onto our shores would like NAFTA change the face of this nation and might create a sucking sound of a cultural nature.