Tom Tancredo Quotes
… we are told that we need these workers to support an aging society, yet, over the past three decades we have allowed over 40 million Americans to die in abortion clinics. Why have we turned our hearts on our own innocent babies and embraced the culture of death? We no longer even talk about the tragedy of abortion or its consequences on our mothers, our culture, or our land. Instead, of course, we are replacing- we are seeking to replace the missing with an imported servant class.
This quotation is interesting because it shows the extreme degree that some ideologues can take an argument. In this case, the imaginative Tancredo manages to tie abortion to immigration, equality, the elderly and Social Security. His number of abortions was grossly exaggerated as well.
Tom Tancredo, U. S. Congressman (Republican, CO), Lincoln Day Dinner Speech, April 14, 2007
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Actually during this period, automation and other forms of technological unemployment have been far more responsible for the loss of good jobs in America than offshoring which has been far more responsible than competition from immigrants.
Many people contest his 40 million number as being exaggerated. Even if true, opponents argue that they would be no more likely to take jobs that most Americans do not want at current wages or whose education does not make them qualified for the high tech jobs that are available. They argue that with 40 million additional American we would not replace many immigrants but would greatly increase the unemployment rate. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Thomas Gerard Tancredo is an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state's sixth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009 as a Republican. He ran for President of the United States during the 2008 election, and was the Constitution Party's unsuccessful nominee for Governor of Colorado in 2010.
