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To: Luis Gonzalez
For example, had we not murdered thirty million babies since 1970, perhaps we wouldn't need ten million illegal aliens in the country covering the Social Security payments of the generation who murdered those babies.

Very good point. One I've made in conversations on the subject. However, that aside, we still probably have plenty of people to do what needs to be done. In addition, it is my contention that all this illegal immigration is not a net plus for our country.

Your Hillary statement was nonsequitur.

I haven't called the politicians traitors in any of my posts, so I have no idea where you came up with that one.

2,579 posted on 02/13/2005 8:17:59 AM PST by HighFlier
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To: HighFlier
"However, that aside, we still probably have plenty of people to do what needs to be done."

We have 5.7% unemployment, roughly 1.6 million people have been unemployed for more than six months, and the other @5.5 million are basically moving from one job to the other.

I don't know if you've ever been unemployed for any period of time, but if you have been...did you consider finding a job picking tomatoes?

Cleaning hotel rooms?

There are by all accounts somewhere between 8 and 10 million illegal aliens in the country, a significant percentage of them working at one job or another.

If we could magically get all of them out of the country right now, do you believe that the lesser number of unemployed computer technicians, retail clerks, accountants, data entry clerks etc. would rush to cover a job below their normal employment level?

They may actually do it to cover that period of time from the time where they lost their job, to the time they find an equal replacement, but the industries concerned can't rely on casual, temporary labor to exist.

Now, that to me is reality, and you have to take reality into account when looking a solution for the problem of the millions of illegal aliens living in a subculture in our nation.

Right now we are fighting a global war that I believe in the scope of things takes precedence over the issue of illegal aliens in the country. I believe that we need to beef up the Border Patrol with manpower, equipment and technology, but using the Army to enforce immigration policy while a war rages is absurd!

Proof of the absurdity is the fact that a leftist member of the media needed to call the war unnecessary in order to justify his immigration rant.

2,614 posted on 02/13/2005 9:00:39 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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