<p>I love this country the way a mother loves her son when she only gives him a slice of cake or not let him splurge on pokemon cards</p>
<p>Why does Bush always feel the need to denigrate those who oppose him as unpatriotic and unAmerican?</p>
<p>Is a 28% approval rating not low enough for this man? Is he trying to make a late push for Jimmy carter’s 19%?</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter got down to 19%? Wow, I didn’t remember that. I always liked “Jimmeh.” I started working for the state in Georgia when he came into the Governor’s office, and then moved to the federal government when he became President. The worst thing he ever did was to listen to his “handlers” who told him that during the hostage crisis not to leave the White House. That made it look like <em>he</em> was under siege. The integrity of the man only became apparent to most after he left office.</p>
<p>I don’t believe foreigners are fully employed here if the large numbers in the parking lots everyday mean anything. I think some immigrants here are being hired by employers that want to get away with not paying taxes, workers comp etc on them and others who just need a day laborer not a real employee. To do constuction work or advertise here, you need a contractor’s license, involving a rather extensive test, so that is not an option for a lot non-foreigners to get work. Since most non-foreigners have homes and families here they are unable to survive on what they would make waiting to be picked up in a parking lot. The immigrant workers that arrived here illegally have already broken our laws getting here and do not care if they work without a contractor’s license. If caught the worst that will happen is they will be sent home and then they can sneak back in again. It sounds like you have a better situation up there. Here the foreigners don’t come for short term. There are large areas that are composed mostly of immigrants who are very poor. They lived in canyons and in overcrowded apartments. The schools and hospitals are having trouble absorbing the costs and the quality of care and education has declined. Maybe videos aren’t the way to recruit them They have to be able to travel that far. Maybe if they sent busses. Thanks for the job offer. I’m not looking for work right now but will keep your area in mind as things decline here.</p>
<p>umm, i think Iraq has gotten way out of hand. It’s in now way tragic, but now if you think about it, we have to stay there if Iraq is to stay in existence, or else Iran will take over in a few weeks, maybe less if they use a bomb.</p>
<p>As for immigration, I used to think it was a big problem. Now i dont. Mexican immigrants greatly help the US economy (or at least laboring economy and California economy. I live in california). Most Mexicans don’t want to leave mexico, but they only do it because they need the finacial opporunity that they can get in america. And it doesnt hurt anyone. It is a burden to our stupid monolingual white society, but helps the work force significantly. Also, they do pay taxes so who cares. They pay sales tax. They work for companies who deduct money from their paychecks for government tax money. So they are getting taxed just as much as everybody else.</p>
<p>And they can’t screw up american politics either because they can’t vote.
The only reason why i think it is a problem is the whole issue with Should they get social security benefits or not, which i think should be no, unless they apply for and obtain dual citizenship…But i think if they did that they should only be allowed to get social security if they live in the US.</p>
<p>I think social security is a load of crap. It is too abused, and needs to be stopped. Why don’t people just start taking responsibility for themselves and work.</p>
<p>"Meanwhile, we are (as usual) short several thousand workers for this year’s cherry harvest. The pay is great! And without more workers, thousands of pounds of cherries will go unpicked.</p>
<p>If you know of a source of several thousand workers prepared to work hard and receive excellent pay, send 'em our way!"</p>
<p>Are you implying that there are too few illegals, or is your area not populated enough? There are lots of good workers in my area with no jobs, perhaps they can be relocated. The forclosure rate here is running more than 20% in some neighborhoods, so they just might be willing to move.</p>
<p>“Are you implying that there are too few illegals, or is your area not populated enough?”</p>
<p>Far too few people willing to do difficult, manual labor, even at high rates of pay. We have lots of white, unemployed college students and college grads who won’t work on these jobs. The state is sending recruiting videos to all parts of the country. </p>
<p>Whether they are undocumented or not doesn’t matter here. It is about the most highly regulated industry going. We can GUARANTEE that they and their employers will be paying into Social Security and Medicare to benefit me and my mom. We can GUARANTEE their health care, which will be provided by white health care workers who would be unemployed otherwise. We can GUARANTEE they will pay sales taxes to fund the schools, even while most of their kids will never set foot in them. We can GUARANTEE they will be covered (and will be paying into) workers’ comp in case they are injured.</p>
<p>So send them our way, and we’ll put them to work. </p>
<p>And if the contractors down where you are are hiring folks without paying into Social Security, etc., George Bush currently has the tools to lock 'em up.</p>
<p>“We can GUARANTEE their health care, which will be provided by white health care workers who would be unemployed otherwise.”</p>
<p>What does this mean? There is a huge shortage of health care workers, probably have a 0 unemployment rate. How will these migrant workers pay? Do they get health care benefits as migrant workers? Generally this is done for free by hospitals and clinics, and is a drain on the health care economy.</p>
<p>Mini- I don’t know a thing about cherry picking, but maybe a really clever engineering student could design a cherry picker to solve the problem up there. And yes, there are laws now and they’re not being enforced. This leads me to believe that they won’t be enforced if this new bill is passed. It will be just like the last amnesty in the 80’s. Without enforcement there will be a whole new group of illegal immigrants coming in. I know that the bill is suppose to protect against this, but so was the last one.</p>