I'd much rather pick lettuce for McCain at $50/hr than be a coal miner.
1. The ones in prison. 2. The ones on welfare. 3. The ones who have been aborted.
Simple answers: 1. Bring back the chain gangs. 2. End Welfare. 3. End abortion.
Problem solved.
A day without an immigrant... is a blessing to Americans.
But hey, lets get some dome illegal immigrants who can't speak the language to do the dirty work for us and then claim we are being patriotic to our economy.
Here is what the "Coalitions for Justice" are delivering to congressional offices today. They're not demanding much, are they? They went around and got the signatures on these last last week:
"I write to urge you to back a realistic and productive comprehensive immigration reform package that does not include any hidden twps (sic) that would sabotage legalization programs, and to reject an enforcement only approach. The provisions of Sensenbrenner HR 4437 that passed the House of Representatives in December 2005 are bad polky (sic) and a dead end for our communities and our economy. Please support immigration reform that will include the following provisions:
I. A path to citizenship or earned legaliza1ion that is straightforward for those of the 12 million undocumented currently living in the US. who desire it.
2. A temporary program for those who desire to maintain their permanent roots in their coUntries of origin that includes worker protections for both domestic and immigrant workers and provide visa portability
3. An effective and speedy plan to reunite families.
4. Provisions for travel to and from countries of origin for immigrants here on worlr (sic) visas.
5. Greater provisions for friture (sic) flows of immigrants coming to the US. That includes a path to dtizenship
6. No more expensive. dead, and ineffective walls on the borders.
7. Promotion of full civic participation in immigrant communities."
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*crickets*
That's the key. A legal"guest worker" program that can be enforced and pays for itself. Bush gets it, but the panderers in Congress don't. And since they pander to several different groups, nothing is likely to happen. Shame on all of us.
After reading the first two paragraphs of this article, I thought it was some kind of joke or parody. The guy complains about his Federal tax dollars going to support the University of California, yet he's from West Virginia -- which has long had a reputation as the welfare capital of the U.S. filled with taxpayer-funded monuments to Robert "Sheets" Byrd.
This past weekend FEMA and the City of Austin , along with the Texas
Workforce Commission setup a job training/hiring/interview/job fair for
all the Katrina FEMA evacuees in the Austin area to be held at the ACC
campus on Webberville Road in East Austin Several of the evacuees said
they had no transportation to get from the apartment complexes.
So the city of Austin/FEMA/TWC set up transportation for each of them
to ensure they would be able to partake of the benefit of job searching.
The transportation consisted of nine buses and vans, to run from four
locations in Round Rock, and five locations in Austin, in continuing
shuttles back and forth to the campus to ensure that the hundreds of
people looking for jobs would be transported in comfort. The vehicles
were brought to their residences; drivers knocked on the doors; and every
effort was made.
At the end of the day, the nine vans and buses transported a
total of one person.
Not one person per bus - one person total.
At the end of the day, none of the Katrina Evacuees applied for
any of the jobs.
Not one person took employment - NONE total.
The bill to FEMA was $7800.
And yet they still get on TV claiming that the United States
Government "OWES THEM", I say we don't owe them anything and if
anything, they OWE us - the Tax Payers that are "WORKING PEOPLE",
they owe what they have been mooching off of the Tax Payers for
almost a year now. It is obvious that they don't intend to work as
long as they can sponge off of the system. It is time to cut them
loose and tell them the free ride is over !
PS - Pass this along to everyone you can if you agree that we don't
owe them ANYTHING !
What a lotta folks (Dane comes to mind...) is that this is how the Roman Empire fell.
While the lower classes in Rome were entertained with bread and circuses (and NOT serving in the Legions!) the Roman patricians brought in illegal aliens to do the work that "Romans wouldn't do." Those "illegals" were barbarians: Teutons, Goths, Visagoths, Vandals, etc. They were being push from behind by other threats, too.
Eventually the barbarians noticed that the balance power has shifted in their favor and things turned violent. I hope our nation takes control of its destiny before American patricians encompass our doom.
I have worked since I was 13. Mhy philosophy has always been to make the most money under the circumstances. If that means corporate management, so be it. It it means picking oranges, so be it.
No, it's probably because an E-2 right out of boot camp earns more than the average person in McDowell County. If you have no jobs then don't expect to keep your young people. Especially if the best they can do education-wise is high school.