A lot of people have fond memories of those wonderful muscle cars built by Detroit in the late 60s and early 70s. Did you ever wonder what happened to them? Why did car makers suddenly stop making them? It certainly wasn’t because they weren’t popular. We loved muscle cars then just like we love them now. Yet almost overnight Detroit stopped making them.
The answer is in the magic vehicle identification number or “VIN.” While muscle cars were popular with young males they were not popular with the insurance industry, particularly when operated by young males. But there was a problem. The insurance industry had difficulty verifying what engine was in a vehicle. A Ford Mustang with an anemic six cylinder engine is a very different creature from one with a 351 Cleveland V8. I speak from experience. It is also a very different insurance risk. So the insurance industry managed to lobby for a law that required all vehicles manufactured or sold in the United States to have a 13 digit VIN number and that VIN had to identify the engine size. Once that happened, the insurance industry KNEW what engine was in a car and they adjusted pricing to reflect the risk. Within a very short period of time people stopped buying muscle cars because it cost more to insure them then to buy them.
The point here is that congress didn’t ban muscle cars, they didn’t need to. The problem was solved with the VIN. Sometimes if you just identify the problem, it becomes much easier to fix the problem. President Obama is apparently planning on giving ID cards to illegal immigrants. He thinks that will make them all life-long Democrats totally dependent on the benevolent federal government. But what happens if we suddenly give millions of people currently living in the shadows an ID card that identifies them once and for all?
We all know there are millions of illegal aliens, but no one knows who they are. That is because there is a huge black market in fake identification documents. A company I worked for had a location raided by Immigration. They discovered several illegal immigrants. Yet, my company was at not risk of a fine, even though it was against the law to hire an illegal immigrant. We had all of the proper documents on file. It was just that none of the documents were real. We didn’t get fined because we were totally in compliance with the law. By the way, we had to fire these people, but none of them were deported. They just found new jobs using the same fake documents. I fail to see how this raid benefited anyone.
So when you read about how President Obama is going to issue ID cards to every illegal immigrant and let them stay in the United States keep the VIN in mind. This may work out very different than he intends. Once everyone has an ID card what if congress passes a law making it against the law to hire an illegal immigrant without a valid work permit? Any employer who violates the law has to pay a huge fine. Suddenly a whole lot of illegal immigrants find it impossible to get a job. We won’t have to deport them; they will reverse the migration process because the only point in coming to the U.S. is to get a job. Of we also have to stop giving them free stuff for not working. We don’t have to be mean and cruel about this. We treat them with love,understanding and a free ticket back home.
Liberals, like Barack Obama, are wrong about everything. What if they are wrong about this too? Liberals like to refer to illegal immigrants as undocumented. So, document them and see what happens. If I were an illegal immigrant I would be terrified by Obama’s plan. Sometimes your worst enemy is the person pretending to be your best friend. In addition, do you know what happens to an illegal immigrant who becomes legal, gets a job and starts paying taxes? They morph into Republicans.
TDM