Posted on 04/09/2006 5:56:29 AM PDT by madprof98
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Who could possibly argue with that.
A rare moment of sanity from Ms Tucker.
Now if we could just get our Republican leaders to admit this.
These must be the end times...I've agreed with Cynthia Tucker twice in one week.
And how do you suggest that we do that? The only sure way is to have all American citizens finger printed and check the prints of all potential hires against a data base.
Anything else is going to have holes big enough to drive a truck through just like it does now.
You make the requirements too onerous and you are going to dry up the summer help jobs for teens even worse then you have already.
I'm afraid that while she actually does make sense here, her proposals are still colored by fatal naivete. If all you need to work here are legal papers, all that will do is get a lot of counterfeit papers made.
It would do almost as much good, if the journalists would move past generalities and document specific corps and their abuses. Someone caught Walmart using illegal cleaning contractors, and you can bet that is over. It looks to me as if this is mostly penny anti, small scale, off the books stuff. However, local journalists could embarass those people, too, if they wanted to. Take a camera crew to the Home Depot and photograph the illegals and their employers. Bad PR is every bit as effective as an official, government sanction. This situation only persists amidst what appears to be general apathy. Take the apathy away and watch the perps dance.
She's 100% right on this one. This problem would be self correcting if the government would simply put teeth into the laws. No employer wants to lose his business no matter how cheap illegal labor is. Without willing employers, illegals would have no incentive to come to the US, unless they really wanted to accept the values and ideals of this country.
Congress could also appropriate money for a nationwide computer system that would allow all employers to get instant verification of a worker's Social Security number and then require all employers to use it.How is this so "onerous" that it will end summer jobs for teens?
My best recollection; feel free to add/correct if you have access to the transcript:
On Rush, a week or so ago, a guy called in and said he was a neighbor of Rush (i.e. Palm Beach, multi-million dollar mansion, sort of "Hey Rush, I'm rich too!", etc.). Then he proceeds to tell how the loss of cheap migrant labor would hurt his business. A short time later another Rush caller refers to the "rich" caller and suggests that maybe, if the rich guy paid a little more for his labor, he might not have the Palm Beach mansion, but the rich guy not having a mansion wasn't sufficient rationale for our migrant policies.
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Oily? Al Sharpton. Platoon? Louis Farrakhan. And I'm sure Jesse's up in there, somewhere. But they're oddly silent. I suspect they're rather pleased at the "revolutionary" aspect of having tens of millions of people who'll eventually be able to vote, and vote Democrat.
The point is that U.S. employers are ADDICTED to and HOOKED on cheap labor to the detriment of our Country and 298 million Americans!
Hmmm. It looked right in the preview. Back to the HTML sandbox, lol.
Cynthia seems to make sense when she writes about a problem that affects her directly and she can speak from experience. The other 95% of the time she's just talking out her @ss.
And everybody's going to fall for this recycled opportunistic agit-prop.
soon
Lot of illegals on your payroll?
and their little RAT friends too.
So on our own dime many employers are starting to do background checks on prospective employees. That catches more but depending if you want a statewide or a nation side search the charge is going to be between $200 and $500. That is onerous. And it is ending summer jobs. When it costs you $300.00 a pop to just weed out the bad apples you are not going to do it for someone that will be gone in three months.
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