Nightcap of Irony...

So, as you may have realized, I am completely seduced by irony. This one was good enough to keep me awake past my bedtime on a week where it is really not a good thing to be awake past my bedtime. I am fully pumpkintastic. Still...

A recent article from AP mentions a new proposed Texas immigration law which has a suspicious exemption in it. Apparently, in a state which has been attempting to close down it's borders completely and remove illegal immigrants from the local workforce, it occurred to some statesmen that there should be an exemption for 'the help'. To clarify, the article stated that the law proposed would make hiring an illegal immigrant something punishable by steep fine and up to 10 years in prison. However, it allows for the illegal immigrant to be hired to do household chores. In other words, they cannot be hired to roll burritos at Moe's, but by all means, hire them under the table to mow your lawn, nanny your children, landscape, build additions, remove trees and any other serviceable act that can be performed upon private property. In other words, the government does not want to be burdened be recognizing them for their taxable potential, but the landed gentry would like to continue to take advantage of their inexpensive labor potential. I see where this is going. We are talking about the South, after all. Simply reinstate slavery. The terms and conditions can be discussed over Dunkin Donuts while being driven home from the gas station parking lot in the back of the pickup truck, just like it always should have been. You could even build them little shanty towns in the back of your property, at least for the ones who seem honest, the ones you might trust to actually go inside and use the facilities or fill up water jugs for the others.

Really, Texas? Really, America? How about instant naturalization and instant taxation? How do you think this country got going, anyway? Did the founding fathers put a cap on the national population that none of us are aware of excepting those in high state and federal office, and those being mostly to the right?

Here is the thing I found most lovely about this whole article. It was reported on the anniversary of the date in which Texas claimed independence from Mexico. The law which leaves a loophole for Mexicans to still do laborious chores or else leaving Texas in a risk of 'stifling the economic engine' (according Republican state representative Riddle's Chief of Staff), happens to be celebrating the date of its independence from Mexico. If it's that independent, why could things potentially stifle economically if they just put a ban on foreign labor?

We all know the answer to that. It's written all over the loose comments of the republican representatives of the state. I wonder if they remember the Alamo. They probably think it was a rumor created by the Left.

This has been brought to you under the influence of Founder's Red Rye P.A. A finer IPA brewed with Rye I challenge you to find.