No, Zook and Dane, I'm on your side on this but why are the poor and unemployed of the northeast and Midwest NOT moving out west to pick lettuce. Hell, for that matter why are the homeless and garbage of San Francisco not getting off their butts to pick lettuce.
In days gone past one did and one moved to where they could earn a living to survive.
Is it because government assistance is greater a wage than actually working?
And why then are we not encouraging those who are poor and unemployed to move west and pick lettuce. Why do we then need foreign nationals to pick that lettuce.
The President must be able to explain this principle, that our own poor are unwilling to do jobs that a foreign national will.
Otherwise, it is a slur.
A slur that says my fellow citizens are too coddled by public assistance and to lazy to fend for themselves.
Whether true or not. That is is the implication.
The President needs to come out and directly say it.
I myself am not unemployed, but Lord is my witness if picking vegies is what it would take to bring income to my house. I WILL DO IT. I an American citizen.
It's clear to me that you understand what the President means. You must also understand that no matter what he says, no matter what policy he pursues, he will be roasted by the media and the Dems. Were he to make explicit that which you and Dane and I understand implicitly, it would certainly destroy Republican political hopes for the next two years.
So when he talks about jobs Americans won't do, there's no need for any employed or soon to be employed person to take offense. Those who do are simply grinding their Bush axe.