So do I. I don't live in an ag community, but I do live in a suburban area where people have illegals mow their lawns, do construction, etc. I hear the same economic arguments you're using and I think they're bogus. The economy isn't going to tank if we have to figure another way to cut costs of delivering goods and services than importing a lot of cheap labor illegally.
If Bush loses, it will be more the fault of strident narrowminded "conservatives" who blow one or two issues way out of proportion compared to the bigger picture.
Yeah, imagine those @$$holes getting all upset over spending money we don't have, or rewarding people who came here in defiance of our laws, and often break more than the immigration laws once they're here? What are they thinking? Don't they realize it's worth it to spend ourselves into penury, and to turn our country into "Mexico del Norte" just to make sure a Democrat isn't elected??? (Instead of someone who just occasionally resembles a Democrat...I mean, for expediency's sake....)
Fortunately, this "base" you say is being driven away amounts to a very small proportion of the electorate.
Why, good! Who cares what they think anyway then, hunh? As long as they number less than, say, a couple of hundred voters in a state like, say, Florida, they can go stick enchiladas where the sun don't shine, right?
So just pour your contempt on them from now 'til Election Day, and sit back and watch GW get re-elected! WOOO-HOOO, MARGE!!!!!!!!
I think they're bogus too, if what we're using cheap immigrant labor for is to mow our lawns and care for our children while we're working 80 hours a week to keep that Lexus. I'm talking about essential labor in California's farming industry. It isn't a matter of figuring out a way to cut costs of delivering goods and services. When I start seeing white high school kids spending their summers on tomato harvestors in the fields around my town, rather than hanging out at the mall, then we can talk about running those who now do that job out of the country.
Your hysteria about "Norte California" is precisely the kind of twisted perspective I've come to expect from the extremist Pat Buchanan right. You base your political perspective on some fear of a great horde of little brown people overrunning your community. Get a grip.
Why, good! Who cares what they think anyway then
Precisely. I certainly don't.