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Uncle George lifts a lamp at the door
The Washington Times ^ | 4-25-06 | Wes Pruden

Posted on 04/25/2006 11:37:32 AM PDT by JZelle

George W. Bush finally weighed in on the great immigration debate yesterday, singing the song beloved by Corporate Republicans: "Give us your tired, your poor/ Your unemployed masses yearning to breeze in free/ The wretched refuse of the steaming poor/ Send these, the readily abused/ Greedy employers wait at the golden door." The president didn't put it in those words, exactly; language and rhetoric are not his cup of latte. The sentiment was clear enough, with the anvil chorus sung with particular gusto: "Businesses have difficulty filling jobs Americans will not do." He might have added, but didn't, "at least not at the wages the employers at the golden door will pay."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; borderlist; georgewcarter; illegalalien; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; immigrationreform; jorgebush; mexico
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1 posted on 04/25/2006 11:37:36 AM PDT by JZelle
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2 posted on 04/25/2006 11:38:50 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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Such a disappointment Bush has turned out to be. All the good he has done is overshadowed by his treatment of lawbreaking ILLEGAL immigrants.


3 posted on 04/25/2006 11:43:03 AM PDT by Proud Conservative2 ("When people show you who they are...BELIEVE THEM the first time..." Maya Angelou)
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They misspelled "Jorge."


4 posted on 04/25/2006 11:47:22 AM PDT by SerpentDove (We will not stand by and allow politicians to destroy our country through open borders.)
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To: JZelle

"Businesses have difficulty filling jobs Americans will not do." He might have added, but didn't, "at least not at the wages the employers at the golden door will pay."



F'ing NAILED IT!


5 posted on 04/25/2006 11:47:48 AM PDT by trubluolyguy (It wasn't the spikes that kept Him on the cross.)
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To: Proud Conservative2

Only in some people's minds.


6 posted on 04/25/2006 11:49:48 AM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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He is so generous in giving our country away isn't he


7 posted on 04/25/2006 11:50:34 AM PDT by piceapungens
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ping


8 posted on 04/25/2006 11:51:37 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: Proud Conservative2
Such a disappointment Bush has turned out to be.

For you closet Dems who showed up just before the 2004 election, I can imagine he would be.

9 posted on 04/25/2006 11:51:51 AM PDT by sinkspur (Things are about to happen that will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.)
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To: Farallon

Welcome to FreeRepublic....

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11 posted on 04/25/2006 11:56:32 AM PDT by antceecee (Hey AG Gonzales! ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!!!)
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To: Proud Conservative2

The closet marxists seem to love the great American sell out.


12 posted on 04/25/2006 11:56:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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Businesses have difficulty filling jobs Americans will not do

......for the miserly salary we pay our illegals

.....I really sick of hearing this mantra....
The bottom line is this... paying illegals meager wages keeps the industry salary at a artificial low..
If salaries are allowed to rise with the market value of the workers, so does the entire economy
Couple this with a 6-8 BILLION (so reported elsewhere)draw out of the US economy each year going to Mexico and the cost in ancillary services they use. You have a national economy that although is rising, could be skyrocketing. Keeping wages low causes savings to be low, the purchasing power of American families low,and the general exchange of currency to stagnate.
No way are these folks GOOD for the American Economy

14 posted on 04/25/2006 11:59:28 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Farallon

Government as a whole.


15 posted on 04/25/2006 12:00:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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Impossible to deport all these illegals. Now that's so right...if you go after the employers stopping jobs to illegals, stop all free fed help including our schools...tax funds sent back to Mexico at 50%...they'll leave, we'll not have to waste money deporting them.


16 posted on 04/25/2006 12:00:26 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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It's OK to break the law by importing cheap labor, but it's not ok to go to Canda for cheap medicine.


17 posted on 04/25/2006 12:02:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: JZelle

W is an accomplice to this invasion. How do you say Quisling in Spanish? El Queesleeng?


18 posted on 04/25/2006 12:05:10 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Politician - Lawyer - Journalist.... when you lie for a living)
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To: Farallon

Do you buy cheese?


19 posted on 04/25/2006 12:07:21 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (History will record that America's unprotected southern border was its Trojan horse.)
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To: Kenny Bunkport
Only in some people's minds.

About 70% and growing fast. Bush has become the GOP's very own version of Jimmy Carter. An, ineffectual ideologue who by surrounding himself with like-minded cronies, is running blind, and making increasingly poor choices as a result.
20 posted on 04/25/2006 12:11:17 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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