Workers in the Shadows

The 30 days isn't to be nice - just time that people can get there heads straight and correct the situation without losing thier business (I'm thinking of small business that has had no choice in this matter - landscapers, contractors etc.) Many of them almost are forced to break the law in order to stay competetive.

Congress came to the same conclusion during recent hearings. The whole BLS system of counting workers was designed about 50 years ago, and despite over 18 changes in the last few years is completely inadequate to track significant trends.

Thre are a number of sites that have been tracking the issue from the late nineties on, and you can put together a significantly different picture from them than that which the government statistics provide.

"That was EXACTLY the result of Reagan's 1986 amnesty. 3 million illegals then - is 8 to 15 million now."

Which is why so many conservatives are stunned that President Bush would propose such a plan that would repeat, and even enhance the results of the previous mistake. Indeed, because they will become essentially permanent residents without citizenship, doesn't that strike at the very premiss of citizenship?

Like snopercod said "How long will it be before a lot of anglos notice that there are alternatives to working six months of every year for the government?". Why would someone want to bear all the extra taxes, paying into a Social Security and Medicare system bound to collapse, and remain last in line for all the hiring preferences? All this on the heels of a prescription Drug Benefit that will surely speed up the collapse of a fiscally shaky Medicare system.

Doesn't make any sense, does it. Unless, of course your aim was to collapse the system itself and effectively dissolve our sovereignty with a combination of fiscal insolvency, dissolution of any effective borders, and an utter inability to meet or contain any further military contingencies by gross overextension.

Then, it would make perfect sense. The most effective arsonists use accelerants.

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