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To: kevao
I have seen no polls on this, so I don't know. But if you'll allow me to extrapolate from the polls showing 65-85% of Americans being against unfettered illegal immigration, I suspect there would indeed be a great deal of support for beefing up the manpower on our borders.

Again, you're trying to take support for a goal--ending illegal immigration, somehow, some way, in a manner that doesn't personally inconvenience the pollee or cost them more money--and trying to translate it into support for something that will cost them money.

You're dealing with a problem we have in America--people aren't willing to actually do the work. Why do you think lotteries sell so many tickets? Because people want to get rich, but they don't want to do the hard work necessary to get rich. Why do you think people want electrical power to be cheap and readily available, but don't want an icky power plant built where it would "spoil nature?" Because they want BOTH goods--they want electricity, but they don't want to deal with the messiness of generating it.

Unfortunately, no politician in either party, except Tancredo, is even proposing this.

The fact that border-state politicians aren't supporting it should tell you something--they aren't willing to waste their time.

521 posted on 01/09/2004 6:53:30 PM PST by Poohbah ("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
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To: Poohbah
Ah, the big lie

You're dealing with a problem we have in America--people aren't willing to actually do the work

The truth is that American are willing to do the work, they just want to get paid a descent wage for doing it.

525 posted on 01/09/2004 6:58:45 PM PST by jpsb
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To: Poohbah
You're dealing with a problem we have in America--people aren't willing to actually do the work. Why do you think lotteries sell so many tickets? Because people want to get rich, but they don't want to do the hard work necessary to get rich. Why do you think people want electrical power to be cheap and readily available, but don't want an icky power plant built where it would "spoil nature?" Because they want BOTH goods--they want electricity, but they don't want to deal with the messiness of generating it.

By God, Poohbah, for the first time today I can actually say I agree with a whole entire paragraph you've written!

But, as I said before, there are plenty of foreigners who have applied legally for entry into the U.S. to fill ALL the jobs that Americans are too lazy to do. We do not have to grant amnestry to millions of criminals who have shown nothing but contempt for our laws.

526 posted on 01/09/2004 6:58:53 PM PST by kevao
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