Every once and so often my rss readers pick up stupidity from the Huffington Post. Well I got a good one today.

Susie Hoeller did a piece titled “Immigration Workplace Raids Will Lead to More Lost American Jobs.” In it she tells us that the recent spat of illegal alien raids have been a bad thing because all these people were doing was committing fraud by stealing peoples Social Security numbers in an effort to get work. In typical liberal fashion, she explains that if the US tries to keep unskilled people from entering illegally then the US is no better than Nazi Germany and will end up sending more jobs overseas. Let’s break down some of her points.

In the wake of the Congressional failure, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has been very active on two fronts: raiding workplaces, especially in the food industry, and building walls along our border with Mexico, in order to satisfy Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo, and our other 21st century nativists.

Remember, if you oppose illegal aliens, you are a horrible person and that is that. Logic isn’t needed.

The vast bulk of meatpacking and food manufacturing is still done here. But let’s get real - meatpacking is a dangerous, physically demanding, and spiritually and emotionally difficult job - killing and butchering animals and poultry all day long is not something that most Americans raise their children to do. Make it impossible for meat packers and poultry processors to find workers here and they will be forced to move operations (and livestock and poultry raising) to Mexico.

Susie is explaining to us that Americans are too good to do this work and that only Mexicans are low enough to get this done. This is called racism on most fronts.

We know that many crops rot in our fields and orchards because farmers cannot find enough workers. Many will say the lack of workers is because the wages are so low - if they were raised - more Americans would pick crops and work in meat and poultry plants. This is true to some extent - one of the downsides of illegal immigration is that it has lowered wages for American born workers. But two wrongs don’t make a right - the fact that we don’t legally require living wages to be paid in this country and the fact that our immigration laws are totally out of synch with several realities (labor shortages, disparities between a rich country and a poor country sharing a 2,000 mile border, etc.) - does not make the current strategy of workplace and home raids and border walls either effective or humane.

If it isn’t a living wage, how do so many Mexicans manage to live? Oh yeah, Susie has already explained that Mexicans are different and obviously have lower standards.

I remember, growing up in the 1960s, reading stories of the brave souls who tried to tunnel under or otherwise escape around the Berlin Wall into freedom in West Germany. Now we are like the East German Stasi - building a wall with our neighbor to the south, Mexico - instead of building bridges of cooperation like we have with Canada.

Just because the reference to Nazi Germany doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, don’t let that stop you from using it to invoke an emotional response from your cult members. Remember, if you oppose illegal aliens, you are a horrible person and a Nazi. Logic isn’t needed.

Organized labor has sat by while hundreds of factories close and millions of American jobs are shipped overseas.

Organized labor making demands that put many corporations in bankruptcy is part of the reason hundreds of factories close and millions of American jobs are shipped overseas.

There have been no massive demonstrations against the Bush Administration’s unconstitutional policies applied against immigrants subjected to warrantless, commando style raids of their homes and against “unlawful combatants” in the “war on terror.”

And let’s not forget to bash Bush despite the fact that he went against his own party to try and grant amnesty to these very illegal aliens. And of course no Bush bash is complete without making reference to a Constitution that you obviously don’t comprehend. She does an amazing job of lying about aliens and spouting terrorist propaganda in one sentence.

Hopefully, the young people attracted to the candidacy of Barack Obama can…..

Obamamania, go figure. The high amount of emotion and low amount of logic can only mean one thing.

Also, if Barack Obama is our next President, I hope his first act will be to rename (and break up into smaller agencies), the “Department of Homeland Security” - which is far more reminiscent of the rise of the Nazis to power, that President Bush spoke of last week in Jerusalem, than anything Barack Obama or any Democrat has ever proposed for our foreign policy.

Actually, the Nazi rise to power was successful because a group of socialists said that they had a magical cure for the economy. Where have I heard this before? Recently even? But thanks for giving the terrorists more propaganda material.

The reality is that if we successfully prevented illegal aliens from taking these jobs, and at the same time told uneducated and unemployed Americans that they were no longer going to receive Welfare checks if they were physically able to work, then these very jobs would be taken by Americans. But don’t let facts get in your way, I understand that you need every reason under the sun to call Bush a Nazi.