HB 1525 Sponsor Confuses Metaphors

In Elliot’s totally emotionally based statement she says, "I remember ever so clearly what it felt like to have the big boot of the government on my back, and I was a mere child," she said. "For these kids today {illegal foreigners’ kids}, it is not a memory; it's a way of life. They are living with the boot of the government on their back, and it's not fair because they've done nothing wrong.” She totally confuses racism with nationalism; legal citizenship and immigration with illegal trafficking; injustice with lawlessness.

In this case the boot of government is actually being put on the back and neck of all the law abiding tax paying citizens, and also snubs and mocks legal immigrants who have done what was legally required. It forces its law abiding citizens, many who cannot afford to send their own children to college, to pay for illegal non-citizen’s kid’s to go to college instead or regardless of their own plights. This is required without their consent or approval and to their own hurt and their own diminished future hopes and dreams as a consequence of the government favoring those who are breaking the law over and above those who keep them. - Pam Manard