W's Live Speech Thread

Fox News | 1-7-04 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

Press conference starts at 2:45 EST....get the prilosec out...we are going to need it.

[Howlin]

Doesn't look like it.

[hattend]

BTTT

[Lady Eileen]

This is insane.

[Neets]

Dben can't answer that question...he has been outed as the newbie retread he is and has gone POOF, where he belongs.

[primeval patriot]

Immigrants: Fearful abused and exploited

[Kevin Curry]

President Bush, why is Mexico's problem ours to solve? Why is it our responsibility to find space, jobs, freedom, and money for people that the Mexican government is too shiftless, incompetent, and corrupt to treat decently? How does our being Fox's pressure valve give him incentive to repair is own boiler?

[KantianBurke]

"Workers who seek only to make a living are exploited"

Oh and they've broken our laws too. Pass me the hanky.

[primeval patriot]

Americans not filling jobs

[King Black Robe]

Over the generations we have received optimistic pepople from every part of the world. By tradition and by history we are a welcoming society. Every generation of immigrants has reaffirmed assimilating newcomers. Between 1891 and 1920 we received 18 million men and women from other nations. The children of immigrants helped liberate the land of their ancestors.

True, but we haven't traditionally funded their move, their living expenses, and their retirements, etc.. It's not that they're not welcome. They should do it legally and at their own expense.

[evets]

(Speaking of 'aliens'...)

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**It is much easier to suck off the government's teet than to work. To prove you are right, welfare needs to be reformed and welfare recipents should be made to work the jobs many say only illegals will do.**

I believe the State of Utah has *workfare* rather than welfare.

[Poohbah]

The one where the Lead Moderator asked everyone to cool the rhetoric a bit on the immigration threads.

[ohioWfan]

It's what the President said about the immigration system.

This is supposed to be a live thread about the President's speech, but it seems to be a bashing party, so I'm leaving.

[Lady Eileen]

Hiding in shadow....not the American way.....Hey Bush...the American way is not rewarding criminals.

[primeval patriot]

Reforms guided by a few basic priniples:

Must control borders.

[Rebelbase]

AMERICA MUST CONTROL ITS BORDERS!

What a joke.

[OXENinFLA]

That is a great point.

How about we tell Canada to give unemployed Americans jobs in Canada.

[Miss Marple]

Illegal entry makes it more difficult to secure the homeland. Jobs being created are jobs US citizens aren't filling. Search for a better life is a basic desire. Many undocumented workers have walked miles and endangered their lives, falling prey to sumgglers. They end up in the shadows of American life, fearing to call the police , afraid to go home to visit. This situation is wrong. Out of common sense our laws should allow willing workers to enter our country and fill jobs Americans aren't filling.

I believe we can do this without jeopardizing American livelihood. America MUST control its borders.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Immigrants: Fearful abused and exploited

Leave there families far away. Filling jobs Amercans won't fill...

Cry me an effing river...