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To: ImpotentRage

Bush wants amnesty for illegals because his pro-business supporters want cheap labor with no hassles and little or no benefits, with fake S.S. numbers so whatever taxes they pay they won't have legal access to (not yet anyway), which limits the need to keep raising the rates on the legal workers (and the equal amount contributions made by employers) in check. Also flooding the market with cheap labor creates downward pressure on wages for competing interests, i.e., those with legal, American citizen workers. Wake up and smell the coffee, American enterprises have gone global in their mentality, driven by cheap labor costs...whether they send the jobs overseas or bring the workers illegally here, it's all the same... you lose to some degree. Watch the standard of living erode over time, and it'll strike home. Hell, part of the reason most Americans are still maintaining a higher standard of living is the ever rising amount of currently cheap debt they've sunk themselves into. Wait till rates rise and the alarm bells ring...


19 posted on 10/23/2005 8:24:28 AM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: john drake

It was actually a rhetorical question. I am well aware of the globalization occurring and I, too, am waiting for the indebtedness of the American public to catch up to them. I fear it is inevitable and it will be...words fail me.


22 posted on 10/23/2005 8:36:47 AM PDT by ImpotentRage
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