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CONNECTING THE DOTS
Frosty Wooldridge
More About: ImmigrationIMMIGRATION: US BUSINESSES IN IT FOR THE GREED
You can fool some of the people all of the time; and, you can fool all of the people some of the time; but, in the end, you cannot fool all the people all of the time. Some say President Abe Lincoln spoke those words.
After nearly 30 years since the last amnesty in 1986 by the late Teddy Kennedy and still-living Senator John McCain (R-AZ), immigration remains a thorn in the foot of most American taxpayers and workers. How has it gone on for so long? Why haven’t the members of Congress solved it?
Answer: greed, more greed, and lots of greed!
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, labor unions and big business
LOVE their 21st century slave labor force. They love compliant labor
at slave wages. They do not care about
laws, taxes or personal responsibility. They care only about the big, green
back dollar.
Washington Times writer Stephen Dinan said, “Senator Lindsey Graham walked out
of his immigration meeting with President Obama last week and said the
president needs to pressure labor unions to accept a temporary-worker program
as part of any bill. Less than a day later, the AFL-CIO said that was a no-go. Among
all the other potential pitfalls, the divide over how to handle the future flow
of foreign workers, which has bedeviled the immigration issue for years, once
again threatens to halt any progress on immigration reform.”
“By taking this position, the AFL-CIO ends any realistic chance of legislation
this year,” said U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President Randel K.
Johnson.
Consequentially, he deepens the rift between labor unions
and big business.
“Businesses say they need to make sure they can get access to foreign workers
because there are jobs Americans won't take,” said Dinan. “But labor unions fear such a program would
depress wages for American workers, and in the current economy, with
unemployment hovering at 10 percent, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said a
new temporary-worker program 'would be political suicide.'”
Let’s examine the reality of the situation! With 20 million Americans unemployed or
underemployed, they will take any job at a living wage. Big business has violated hiring practices
for three decades, so much so, and gotten away with it, that breaking the law
feels ‘normal’ and since the past four presidents haven’t enforced immigration
laws—businesses feel entitled to lawlessness.
“Can you feel my smile? It's great not to be needed,” said Rosemary Jenks,
director of government relations at NumbersUSA, which rallied opponents to
flood senators' offices with calls and faxes during the 2006 and 2007
immigration-reform debates. (www.NumbersUSA.com
)
“SUPPOSE
YOU’RE AN IDIOT; AND SUPPOSE YOU’RE A MEMBER OF CONGRESS—AH, BUT I REPEAT
MYSELF!” said Mark Twain.
“For more than a year, health care has sucked most of the energy out of the
room. Using reconciliation to push health care through will make it much harder
for Congress to come together on a topic as important as immigration,” Mr.
Graham said. “We must become engaged with the unions on the creation of a
temporary-worker program which meets the needs of business community.”
Nick Shapiro, White House spokesperson said, “The administration is talking to
a wide range of stakeholders on all of the issues in this debate, including the
AFL-CIO. There are a number of creative ideas on the table for ways to deal
with the future flow of migrants, and we remain open to a variety of options as
legislation takes shape.”
FUTURE
WORKERS HAVE BEEN A STICKING POINT FOR YEARS
Dinan said, “In 2006, the bill the Senate debated allowed hundreds of thousands
of new workers in each year, and put them on a path to citizenship — violating
one of President George W. Bush's key demands that any future workers be
temporary. That 2006 bill passed the Senate, but was never taken up by the
House. A year later, when the issue came back to the Senate, a key fight was
over how many temporary workers would be let in. The original bill called for
400,000 temporary workers a year, but an amendment passed that slashed that
number in half.”
Tamar Jacoby, president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, a group of companies
pushing for an immigration bill, “I think there's a recognition we need workers
in a variety of fields, I would argue at the top and bottom of the economy. The
question is how do you make sure employers try to hire Americans first and that
you have a flexible flow.”
EXCEPT,
OVER 20 MILLION AMERICANS DO NOT POSSESS JOBS!
Ms. Jenks, who is fighting against any bill, said, “There is a reason
businesses and unions might find an agreement: They know they have a limited
window to get something done. There's incentive for both sides to give a little
and to be open to a deal that gives them each a half-victory. This fight has
been ongoing, and let's face it, neither side is in this on principle; they're
in it for greed.”
Final understanding: U.S business and everyone that advocates for mass immigration and stands up for unending illegal immigration follow the yellow brick gold trail of GREED! It’s as American as apple pie.
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six
continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across
the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from
the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming
Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs,
church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about
sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100
Million Americans. Copies
available: 1 888 280 7715