On illegals, welfare whiners and a great idea.

A happy story that I read today involved ICE and local officials in Colorado snatching up busloads of illegals from a construction site on an Air Force base in Colorado:
120 Illegal Aliens Arrested
Happily, the illegals were put on buses and driven to the US/Mexico border. (I know...they'll all be back in a week or two, tanned and rested, but it's a start.)
Predictably, the presumably illegal relatives of the deported illegals cry to the newspapers about how "unfair" this was and one tearfully admits that they came into this country to get free medical care for one of their kids. If we were really serious about the illegal problem, these relatives would have been snapped up too. But they weren't. One other good thing is that the government is looking to prosecute the employer of these illegals and I want to cheer for the people who made that call. It's well past time and it'll do more to stem the illegal alien invasion than simply catching a few and giving them half of round-trip to Mexico. Put the risk on employers and watch them think twice about undercutting legal American labor.

Also of interest in the story was one of the contractors who claimed that now there were no workers to do the work. My first thought was that you get what you pay for, and if they'd paid enough money to attract and keep American workers, they'd be in business now. But then I had another great idea. (I get these a lot.)

First off we need to bus ALL the illegals out of here. And we need to tattoo or microchip each one so that if they ever come back we'll know and then we can punish them severely just as their governments would do to you or me if we were caught illegally in their countries. And after that, why not simply take some of the thousands of alleged Katrina victims who are still sitting around unemployed over a year later and bus THEM to this and other construction sites that require labor? It seems like every few days there's a story coming out of New Orleans about all the people who can't seem to find jobs. Many if not most of these people can't find jobs of course because they're not doing much more than sitting on a stoop someplace drinking malt liquor and grousing about how slow the local government has been in regards to taking money from working people and using it to rebuild what was once considered the worst public housing in the country with brand new units that these non-workers could then move into, paying little or no rent, of course.

This plan would give jobs to people who needs jobs and then they'd have enough money that they could afford to rent or buy their own homes instead of sponging them off of the rest of us productive people. They'd learn skills and discipline and they'd be doing the jobs legally that the illegals are presently doing very illegally. And if the illegals can't get jobs because they're all being filled with welfare recipients or other unemployed Americans, many if not most of them might just stay home and not cross our borders in violation of our laws and national sovereignty.

Seriously, you people need to write MY name in on the 2008 Presidential ballots. Give me the job and I'll come up with all sorts of great ideas like this to solve many of our nation's problems.

And Lagniappe would love to be First Dog.