So you want to pander to the liberals who want to eat their cake every day and not work for meat and potatoes like everyone else?
Forget it!
No way I'm supporting constricting the economy so certain sectors can have the cushy positions they think they're entitled to.
Nope I want the Republican party to go back to its core principles of looking out for the interests of all working Americans. Protectionism was consistently in their party platform and actually practiced through the eighties.
Free Trade as we know it today was repudiated by traditional Republicans for exactly the reasons we are seeing, it would drive down wages and force people to compete with those willing or driven to work for far far less and under harsher conditions. I want the free market to work on our terms, not those of third world countries.
What you're saying is tough we're in a global economy now thanks to our own government's policies so if anyone isn't willing to work for minimum wage then they're lazy bums who don't want to support their family. It's the perfect recipe for the democrats to come back into power using their well worn class warfare tactics.
That's exactly the type of attitude that's going to take the Republicans out and give us another 40 years of democratic/socialist rule.
The mantra that got Big Bush kicked out of office was "Saddam Hussein still has a job but I don't - at night he sleeps in a big warm bed but I don't". Maybe you forget I don't. The Pubs have some fetchin up to do. They have a lot of non-crossover voters pissed not to mention the usual cross overs. Senators are grabbing their depends right now on the immigration issue. Good reason for it "they damn well better". No amnesty. The West, Southwest, and the South have had it with this crap. I look for the Senate to follow the house like they are on skates on the immigration bill. They want to keep their damn jobs. Bush could give a shit.