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It's time for this guy to go. He is too stupid and/or too dishonest to serve in any elective office. Shame on the people who voted him into office.

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Quote:Rep. Don Young: I’m sorry for calling Latino workers ‘wetbacks’

Alaskan Rep. Don Young sent out a quick apology Thursday for referring to Latinos who worked his family farm as “wetbacks” on a radio show.
The Republican lawmaker said he wasn’t aware the term was derogatory.
“During a sit-down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in Central California,” he said, as reported by the Alaska Dispatch. “I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays, and I meant no disrespect.”

Mr. Young’s exact statement, made to KRDB-FM Radio in Alaska during discussion of immigration reform: “My father had a ranch. We used to have 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.”

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If he were a liberal democrat, this probably would not have reached mainstream media.

WideRight05 Wrote:If he were a liberal democrat, this probably would not have reached mainstream media.

But Young's statement was made during an interview on an Alaskan radio station. I agree that if he were a liberal Democrat, the statement would not have been spread further by the mainstream media. It is not plausible that a 30-year veteran of Washington politics would not realize that what he said would be offensive to a large voting bloc that his own party is courting.

Young has already been in Congress too long and will soon be 80 years old. The voters should have turned him out to pasture for his role in securing funding for the "bridge to nowhere." This country is broke and if Boehner cannot keep his moderate, big spending Republicans in line, then we cannot expect him to have any credibility when he criticizes Democrats for being irresponsible. Young is either an absolute idiot or a liar. Either way, Alaskan Republicans can do better.

Hoot Gibson Wrote:It's time for this guy to go. He is too stupid and/or too dishonest to serve in any elective office. Shame on the people who voted him into office.

he is just saying what the majority of republicans want to say

vector Wrote:he is just saying what the majority of republicans want to say

Crawl back under your slimey rock, sock puppet.

Hoot Gibson Wrote:But Young's statement was made during an interview on an Alaskan radio station. I agree that if he were a liberal Democrat, the statement would not have been spread further by the mainstream media. It is not plausible that a 30-year veteran of Washington politics would not realize that what he said would be offensive to a large voting bloc that his own party is courting.

Young has already been in Congress too long and will soon be 80 years old. The voters should have turned him out to pasture for his role in securing funding for the "bridge to nowhere." This country is broke and if Boehner cannot keep his moderate, big spending Republicans in line, then we cannot expect him to have any credibility when he criticizes Democrats for being irresponsible. Young is either an absolute idiot or a liar. Either way, Alaskan Republicans can do better.

I would agree. He has been in politics for a long time, and even though the mainstream media ran wild with this one, he should have known better.

Unlike the liberals, we aren't blinded by political parties and can see the mistakes of our own.

WideRight05 Wrote:I would agree. He has been in politics for a long time, and even though the mainstream media ran wild with this one, he should have known better.

Unlike the liberals, we aren't blinded by political parties and can see the mistakes of our own.

Young is a big spending moderate Republican like Hal Rogers. There are plenty of honest Republicans in this country who do not run campaigns like liberal Democrats, boasting about all of the pork they bring home at every stop.

I agree that if one of the liberal idiots in Congress, or Obama, made the same comment, all would be quickly forgiven after one of those "I am sorry if anybody was offended by my choice of words..." non-apologies. I don't expect liberal Democrats to hold the people they put into office to reasonable standards. The people who put guys like Obama into office are his partners in crime.

Maybe it is time for Sarah Palin to return to elected office as Young's replacement. Boehner would just love to see that, I am sure. :biggrin:

vector Wrote:he is just saying what the majority of republicans want to say

Republicans just want people to obey the law. They realize the only way any society can continue to survive is by submission to the rule of law. America finds herself with an ever increasing segment that does not recognize the rule of law and who feel they are entitled to sidestep it, because they identify with some kind of special interest group. And as a result, the Oblame-a administration gives them a pass on everything. Free food, drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, free health care, obviously the list is endless. Adding to the problem is that Hollywood level media programming, propagandizes the liberal message that teaches nonworking folks and illegal immigrants that they have been treated unfairly and deserve freebies. Making them feel justified for cashing in on around $80,000 dollars a year in potential government doled benefits.

So, obviously excusing those who have fallen into the safety net, there are many millions whose only work, is to work the system. Because the liberals in government and the media have made them to feel entitled to what those rich white men have, the socially engineered concept or reckoning as delivered by those same liberals, is called 'redistribution of wealth'. And, is an easily researchable concept of insurrection which has openly and proudly, reared it's ugly head from within the present administration. The rest of us 'worker drones' are forced to pay for those entitled, as we choose to pay for our own needs and that of our families. Republicans and conservatives and anybody who really has to work for his substance, regardless of party, resent it whenever we hear all the party animals whooping it up on the gravy train as it rolls by. Which, is more than a minor irritation, even to the point of our having to pick up the empty beer bottles the 'entitled' throw out of the windows of the party express, onto the front yards we have to pay for and are taxed on.

Again, unlike their liberal political opponents, republicans also realize this taxpayer financed, 'feeding frenzy' for the left, is a nation killer and are alarmed and concerned about the future, even the near future, as those of us who have seen first hand how things are supposed to work in this country, worry about how far we have actually drifted, away from sound governance. It's got nothing to do with bias and everything to do with reality, morality and personal responsibility.

Democrats have seized upon the opportunity to make it look like lawmakers who are trying to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars, (fiscally conservative republicans) is a damnable short coming particular to rich white republicans, who only care about their own bank accounts and therefore see minorities, immigrants and the poor as something of a nuisance that they don't care about, or want to be bothered with. Not so of the loving human husbandmen from within the ranks of the democrats though. Every last one of them would willingly transfuse his last drop of blood into the arm of vilest illegal offender incarcerated by ICE who needed it, LOL. The whole fabrication which is intended to make dems look like saints and republicans look like bumbling rich fools, is easily disproven for what it is, with even a cursory brush through our national record for anybody with a clue as to how to google.

America left the path spiritually with Roe v Wade and the famous Supreme Court case of Everson versus Board of Education of Ewing Township. Fiscally, we left the path when Lyndon Baines Johnson gave life to his "Great Society". Nowadays, we find ourselves fighting over gay marriage and whether or not we have the right to police our own borders or not. As if the whole world has some kind of right to thrust their dipper into the wellspring of taxpayer dollars extorted by a federal government who foolishly believes the rest of the world shares their vision of the preeminence of our system of law. Nothing I have posted here is intended to in any way, defend Don Young.