BretLudwig
December 16th 08, 04:16 AM
Blago and Diversity
>>"Here are excerpts from my new VDARE.com column Blagojevich, Obama, and
the Diversity-Fueled "Chicago Way:"
This scandal is of particular interest to VDARE.COM readers because
immigrants and immigration policy play such a large role. For instance,
the go-betweens in the alleged deal in which Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.,
apparently the high bidder, would raise at least $1 million for
Blagojevich were members of what the Chicago Tribune calls [Blagojevich
Fundraiser Held by Jackson Allies Saturday, by David Kidwell, John Chase
and Dan Mihalopoulos, December 12, 2008] “the close-knit and politically
active Indian business community”.
Another of Blagojevich’s Senator schemes has proven embarrassing to
one of the strongest supporters of illegal immigration: the huge Service
Employees International Union, which claims to represent unskilled
workers, often illegal aliens. The SEIU is potent political force on the
far left, but it curiously less potent at getting higher pay for its
teeming members.
On page 60 of the criminal complaint:
"ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated, 'I want to make money.' During the call, ROD
BLAGOJEVICH, HARRIS, and Advisor B discussed the prospect of working a
three-way deal for the open Senate seat. HARRIS noted that ROD BLAGOJEVICH
is interested in taking a high-paying position with an organization called
'Change to Win,' which is connected to Service Employees International
Union ('SEIU'). HARRIS suggested that SEIU Official make ROD BLAGOJEVICH
the head of Change to Win and, in exchange, the President-elect could help
Change to Win with its legislative agenda on a national level."
In other words, in this scenario, Blagojevich, who has apparently been
under financial stress ever since his Lady Macbeth-type wife had to give up
her job as a real estate agent / bagwoman because most of her commissions
were barely disguised bribes for her husband, would promise to resign as
governor. Obama would lean on his friends in the SEIU to give the
disgraced governor a job paying $250-300,000 pushing SEIU’s agenda
(which includes amnesty). Before moving on, Blago would appoint to the
U.S. Senate Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama’s old boss when she worked
for the Daley Machine.
Tom Balanoff, head of the janitors’ local in Chicago and a close
ally of Obama, evidently conveyed Blagojevich’s brainstorm to the Obama
camp.
President Andy Stern’s corrupt SEIU is less a union that battles for
higher wages for its members than a front for the Open Borders lobby
pushing for higher immigration. Wages are ultimately determined by supply
and demand, which is why Cesar Chavez, during his prime, ruthlessly fought
against illegal immigration in order to keep the supply of labor down and
the price of labor for his members up. But, in contrast, Stern’s
strategy is to maximize the number of unskilled service workers paying
dues into his union at the expense of his members’ wages. Much of his
energies go toward promoting leftist political victories rather than
getting higher pay for his workers....
Seen up-close, Chicago politics resembles a bizarrely intricate
multi-generational soap opera.
Obama and Blagojevich have long been allies, but never have been
particularly friendly, coming as they do from very different ethnic bases.
They do have a close friend in common: Tony Rezko, the Syrian immigrant
operator whom Patrick Fitzgerald sent to jail earlier this year....
The second main reason for Chicago’s corruption: Chicago’s
diversity.
Its long history as a major immigrant gateway means that the
population is greatly divided by ethnicity. As Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew,
perhaps the most astute statesman of the 20th Century, noted: "In
multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic
interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and
religion."
The voters who comprise Chicago’s various ethnic blocs know their
representatives are sonsabitches. But at least they are their
sonsabitches.
You let your group’s veteran politicians pocket some bribes because
if you got all high and mighty and threw the bums out and replaced them
with some public-spirited novices, your ethnic group would find itself
despoiled by all the other ethnic groups’ wily old politicians.
In summary: clearly, the Main Stream Media failed to tell us much
about the real Obama.
The fact is that he’s much more interesting than his canned image as
the post-racial reconciler.
Not as edifying, perhaps—but interesting.
And the Obama Presidency is just going to get more and more
interesting.
To learn who Obama really is, please buy my new book, which serves as
a reader's guide to the President-Elect's opaque but revealing
autobiography. Just click here to buy America’s Half-Blood Prince:
Barack Obama’s “Story of Race and Inheritance."<<
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>>"Here are excerpts from my new VDARE.com column Blagojevich, Obama, and
the Diversity-Fueled "Chicago Way:"
This scandal is of particular interest to VDARE.COM readers because
immigrants and immigration policy play such a large role. For instance,
the go-betweens in the alleged deal in which Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.,
apparently the high bidder, would raise at least $1 million for
Blagojevich were members of what the Chicago Tribune calls [Blagojevich
Fundraiser Held by Jackson Allies Saturday, by David Kidwell, John Chase
and Dan Mihalopoulos, December 12, 2008] “the close-knit and politically
active Indian business community”.
Another of Blagojevich’s Senator schemes has proven embarrassing to
one of the strongest supporters of illegal immigration: the huge Service
Employees International Union, which claims to represent unskilled
workers, often illegal aliens. The SEIU is potent political force on the
far left, but it curiously less potent at getting higher pay for its
teeming members.
On page 60 of the criminal complaint:
"ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated, 'I want to make money.' During the call, ROD
BLAGOJEVICH, HARRIS, and Advisor B discussed the prospect of working a
three-way deal for the open Senate seat. HARRIS noted that ROD BLAGOJEVICH
is interested in taking a high-paying position with an organization called
'Change to Win,' which is connected to Service Employees International
Union ('SEIU'). HARRIS suggested that SEIU Official make ROD BLAGOJEVICH
the head of Change to Win and, in exchange, the President-elect could help
Change to Win with its legislative agenda on a national level."
In other words, in this scenario, Blagojevich, who has apparently been
under financial stress ever since his Lady Macbeth-type wife had to give up
her job as a real estate agent / bagwoman because most of her commissions
were barely disguised bribes for her husband, would promise to resign as
governor. Obama would lean on his friends in the SEIU to give the
disgraced governor a job paying $250-300,000 pushing SEIU’s agenda
(which includes amnesty). Before moving on, Blago would appoint to the
U.S. Senate Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama’s old boss when she worked
for the Daley Machine.
Tom Balanoff, head of the janitors’ local in Chicago and a close
ally of Obama, evidently conveyed Blagojevich’s brainstorm to the Obama
camp.
President Andy Stern’s corrupt SEIU is less a union that battles for
higher wages for its members than a front for the Open Borders lobby
pushing for higher immigration. Wages are ultimately determined by supply
and demand, which is why Cesar Chavez, during his prime, ruthlessly fought
against illegal immigration in order to keep the supply of labor down and
the price of labor for his members up. But, in contrast, Stern’s
strategy is to maximize the number of unskilled service workers paying
dues into his union at the expense of his members’ wages. Much of his
energies go toward promoting leftist political victories rather than
getting higher pay for his workers....
Seen up-close, Chicago politics resembles a bizarrely intricate
multi-generational soap opera.
Obama and Blagojevich have long been allies, but never have been
particularly friendly, coming as they do from very different ethnic bases.
They do have a close friend in common: Tony Rezko, the Syrian immigrant
operator whom Patrick Fitzgerald sent to jail earlier this year....
The second main reason for Chicago’s corruption: Chicago’s
diversity.
Its long history as a major immigrant gateway means that the
population is greatly divided by ethnicity. As Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew,
perhaps the most astute statesman of the 20th Century, noted: "In
multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic
interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and
religion."
The voters who comprise Chicago’s various ethnic blocs know their
representatives are sonsabitches. But at least they are their
sonsabitches.
You let your group’s veteran politicians pocket some bribes because
if you got all high and mighty and threw the bums out and replaced them
with some public-spirited novices, your ethnic group would find itself
despoiled by all the other ethnic groups’ wily old politicians.
In summary: clearly, the Main Stream Media failed to tell us much
about the real Obama.
The fact is that he’s much more interesting than his canned image as
the post-racial reconciler.
Not as edifying, perhaps—but interesting.
And the Obama Presidency is just going to get more and more
interesting.
To learn who Obama really is, please buy my new book, which serves as
a reader's guide to the President-Elect's opaque but revealing
autobiography. Just click here to buy America’s Half-Blood Prince:
Barack Obama’s “Story of Race and Inheritance."<<
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/12/here-are-excerpts-from-my-new-vdare.html
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