Which begs the question... If they don't REALLY want to stop illegal immigration, what is the point of all the rhetoric?

It has always seemed to me like the purpose was to whip up racist votes while while creating an exploitable underclass. But if you have another theory that fits the facts then I would love to hear it.

Seriously though this is good news for us bacon lovers.
Does anyone else like bacon?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut

Likely to send the price of bacon up.

I am not familiar with the economics of pigs, but I do know that Americans eat a lot of bacon. So I would not be surprised if we were mostly keeping the bellies, and exporting the other parts of the hog. If that is the case, the prices of what we do export would drop in the USA due to oversupply (especially things like hocks, knuckles, tails, ears, tongue, head... which Americans probably don't eat) but the price of the things we generally keep will rise to make up for the reduced profit they are making on the other parts. In the short term it may fall just because of temporary oversupply of the bellies we do send, but in the long term we would just produce less hogs because they are less profitable, which means a reduced supply of bacon in the US. So you can look forward to higher prices.

I know that chicken feet exported to other countries "subsidizes" the price of chicken in the US. That when chicken processors started selling them for a profit over seas it allowed the price if chicken to go down.

#11 | Posted by ScottS

An official position is one that is clearly stated by the people that hold it. That is what makes it "official".

A position made up and assigned to someone by simple minded idiots with a emotional and reductionist view of the facts is about as far as you can possibly get away from an "official position".

Even in well run organizations there is something called the 80/20 rule, 80% of the work is done by 20% of the workers.

#21 | Posted by visitor_

Then why, again, does it look like they are going to increase the deficit by $500B?

It looks to me like your Republicans are the 80% firing the 20% that actually do the work. Unless you have any countering evidence that they are firing the RIGHT people?

But really this is just a Republican popularity contest. It is not about firing people who don't contribute. It is about firing anyone who disagrees with you.

It is interesting that the people who (apparently) actually do the work are ALSO the ones that disagree with Republicans. But, honestly, that has been obvious to anyone without ideological blinders on for years.