Next door to my house, one boss and two workers repairing a sea wall and laying a large cement patio and a sidewalk. Local, educated, industrious white males.
They told me that they've always got good living wages for their jobs....now the cement layers all around here are being replaced one by one with imported immigrants, legal or illegal, working for 5 bucks and change per hour.
Rightly or wrongly, my neighbor's cement layers are bitterly blaming GWB. I could see they're scared stiff behind their complaints and bravado.
This is the president's soft underbelly in the next election. The immigrant thing is out there in the conversations of the working men and women. It's a real and immediate issue and it's hurting folks around you and me more than anyone realizes.
The proposed alien immigrant policy is the wrong thing at the wrong time. The administration better wake up VERY quickly to what's going on out here in the real world. The tradespeople are going to vote Dem this time around from all I hear. My plumber told me the same thing the other day.
Leni