[hchutch]

Agreed.

I am getting really tired of the notion that people are ENTITLED to certain jobs, or a certain standard of living merely by virtue of being born here.

If they're not getting what they feel they deserve, the whining and complaining starts, with the ususal fuss about big business or whoever else the designated target is for these folks. Their hand is out, and they are shouting, "Gimme, gimme, gimme." Well, my response to them is no different thn my response is to Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson if THEIR hand is out making that demand: "You want it, you gotta earn it."

[Mamzelle]

Check out workman's comp in CA. That cost alone is driving a lot of business out of CA. Multiply those expenses by hundreds, and you can see how jobs get driven out of the rest of the country. Then a business gets to circumvent these costs by semi-slave labor. No "lawyer tax" in India. We've got an incredible ball-and-chain around our entrepeneurial ankles...

[StolarStorm]

The same could be said for the companies that employ h1-bs. They are benefitting from a government program.

[cmak9]

I am getting really tired of the notion that people are ENTITLED to certain jobs, or a certain standard of living merely by virtue of being born here.

I think what American citizens are getting tired of is this endless importing of illegal aliens (net consumers of services and taxes)taking jobs, driving down wages, while simultaneously paying the tax bill for it. We are also getting tired of any decent jobs left to us being exported to some third world country, which anyone wanting to eat anything other than dog food and live in a hut can't compete with. We are also getting tired of being called lazy, etc., when we are the ones breaking our backs to finance this idiocy.

If somebody doesn't get a grip on this problem, we will find our American way of life gone, and find ourselves living in a Third World hell hole. And the beauty of it is, we get to finance the crap. It's a race to the bottom. If you think you can avoid it, I think you're wrong. If you avoid it, your children and grandchildren won't. We don't want a stacked playing field, we only want a fair playing field and we're about sick of financing our own destruction. President Bush and Congress had better realize this, or there will be political hell to pay.

[RaceBannon]

Gimme Gimme???

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/954156/posts

[LanPB01]

Can you add me to your "tired of the entitlement crowd" PING list? All this talk about "shipping our jobs to India", as if they have a constitutional right to those jobs, is making me ill.

[cp124]

A lot of people do not feel entitled to jobs, but do not expect our leaders to adopt trade, tax, and regulatory policys that put us at disadvantage in the name of globalism. As Bush Sr. said "It's a new world order." We didn't know the new world order meant the elimination of middle class for the benefit of the corporation and elites.