Absurd terminology. The average entrepreneur struggles to keep his business afloat: regulations, insurance, lawsuits, ad nauseum.
Most folks start out making low wages and move up. Some are eligible for government programs (food stamps, lower cost insurance) but not all and a minimal net is useful for all not just those who receive them.
The "social programs" you should be fretting about are mostly directed at the middle and upper classes. Think about it!
Hey I'm ALL FOR streamlining the bureaucratic process, going after greedy insurance companies, and creating meaningful tort reform.
That doesn't mean I think that corporate America should have the right to shift the TRUE COST of their workers upon the US Taxpayer.
"Bravo President Bush". Thank you for further ruining our schools, hospitals and pushing your election off on the taxpayers. Bravo for the increase in violent crime in my area and the inablility of our children to find entry level work. Thank you for making our laws a joke and rewarding foreigners for breaking them.
Thank you for your blue-blooded "I don't give a s**t" attitude. Bravo to your contempt for our constitution and spitting in the face of many of the people who went to bat for you. Thank you for putting your own Rockafeller ass before your coutry and it's constitution. You have proven there is no party that respects the law and not a "party of men" anymore.
At least it's cheap to eat at Taco Bell and agricorps don't have to hire Americans anymore.
BRAVO
Well then, many of these "average entrepreneurs" are now using the minimum estimate of 12 million illegal workers, without regard to regulations, insurance, ad nauseum. In return, they will now be exonerated of any wrongdoing as long as they vouch that these illegals have the same job in which they have been illegally exploited (there will be no requirement for existing jobs held by illegals to be advertised first to Americans, according to the Bush plan -- check out the White House web site on that topic.)
Then consider, though I doubt you will, the average entrepreneur who has not hired illegal aliens, does obey the law, and has therefore suffered from unfair competition. Their reward will be to now realize that laws mean nothing and that they were fools to be good citizens -- in much the same way that those who come to this country legally and work their way into the American dream now know that their efforts mean no more than those who jumped a fence at the border.
It's all very inspirational, is it not?
Bush said today that those who want to become citizens should know much more about American history and values than is currently required -- this scheme should go a long way to reinforce the concept of the rule of law for new citizens, perhaps under a future chapter heading of "The more people who break the law, the more likely it is to be changed."