Thanks Fatalis. I have already read Tom's plan and understand your point. My point is that no Guest Worker Plan should be offered in lieu of the government doing their job...even if the government has to do their job first.
What concerns me is that after the Government (ahem) supposedly fulfills their lawful responsibilities under Tancredo's plan and the Guest Worker plan is installed it's back to business as usual with the government. I just don't trust government to do the right thing here, when decade after decade suggests trust is not in order.
Also, we have millions of unemployed Americans in the lower/middle classes and with 1 million plus legal immigrants pouring into this country every year a Guest Worker Program is IMO nothing more Cheap Labor subsidy to business. We don't need it.
You are holding out for a utopia that won't happen. Folks are restless, and tired of the status quo. More and more will say, as they have on this thread, "well at least the Bush plan has a chance." They see it as the only option to the status quo, and begrudging support for Tancredo only bolsters that perception.
What plan would you rather have, Tancredo's, McCain's, Cornyn's, or Cannon's? Who would you rather empower?