President Bush has been giving all Americans the finger on this issue for a while now. Every time he said "jobs americans won't do" I felt like I was being slapped in the face by the President. Calling the Minutemen vigilantes was all I needed to hear to know how out of touch he was (and still is) on border issues. Giving us the finger? Sure has- many, many times.
I feel slapped in the face over that comment too. We've always been a nation where the dignity of a job was what you brought to the job, not the work itself. Bush is talking like some European elitist. There's no frigging nobility here.
Europe has the problems they have because they bring in their inferiors to do the sh_t work. How insulting. In this country we don't need second class citizens. We don't need slaves, we don't need to feel superior to other humans because our job has more status. We're a nation of equals. Bush must think he's better than the rest of us to if that's his standard. Maybe he thinks the jobs the rest of us do are too good for him... maybe he's not a citizen representative, but a king -- nobility -- better than the rest of us.
Personally, I think Bush is betraying the principles this country was founded on.