Posted on 06/07/2007 4:37:07 PM PDT by gas0linealley
In what may have been one of the US Senate's greatest speeches, Senator Byron Dorgan just trashed the Immigration Bill and poked fun at its framers.
Senator Dorgan said about the bill: "It's about profits for big economic interests". He hammered repeatedly at the fact that there had been no consideraion given to American workers in the crafting of the legislation.
The Senator commented about recent news stories that illustrated how employers are keeping relentless downward pressure on worker's wages and using cheap legal and illegal labor to do it, while management is getting huge salaries and retirement packages.
Senator Dorgan said that he has been in the Senate long enough to have seen various pieces of legislation proposed which have been assembled by "gangs of twelve" etc. and all of them claimed to be grand compromises but were without exception terrible bills. He mentioned how their proponents, "puffed up with helium or hydrogen", come to the podium to tout their worthless proposals.
The Senator from North Dakota believes that we already have the laws on the books to take care of the immigration problem, they just lack enforcement. He says that the first order of business is border security.
If you missed Senator Dorgan's remarks, you owe it to yourself to find them and listen or read.
Capital is dominant these days. It is international, is nimble, can move fast into new situations. Labor is slow and plodding and suffering. Our large capitalists and large corporations wants labor (illegal aliens) to be able to flow unimpeded past national borders same as capital can these days
You wrote that capital is dominant. In light of the failure to move the bill tonight, do you think that may have changed, or were other factors in play?
The Dems must also listen to Rush because while the Pubbies are calling their base bigots the Dems realize this is their chance to gain power. Too bad the Republicans are morons.
“As a Dem he probably could care less if this thing passed,he does however, seem to have decided to represent his constituents, unlike Lindsey Graham who calls them bigots.”
I have heard the Senator’s name, but knew absolutely nothing about him, until I heard him address the Senate tonight. After reading your reply I Googled and found this interesting web site:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/030
Evidently Senator Dorgan’s interest in protecting American workers predates this latest immigration bill.
Country-club Repubs who are running things right now and who have contempt for the base want cheap labor so they can make plenty of lovely money and generally enjoy life. It is that simple.
I would say American workers are in desperate need of protection from the forces of globalization.
The rush to pass the immigration bill leads me to suspect that our leaders fear what is going to happen as the economy slides and Americans, desperate for work, see Mexicans stealing jobs and helping themselves to our services.
The Senate debate has been an eye-opener for me. I now have a much better idea of who my friends are.
“After reading your reply I Googled and found this interesting web site:”
I just read the interview at buzzflash.
Dorgan sounds like he cares a lot more about the working class in our country than most Republicans do.
The jobs being shipped offshore are killing the middle class.
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