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Not “rather than,” bed-wetter, “in addition to.” I address the points; you just spout Pointless Liberal Factoids.

Why is is necessary for rightwingprof to insert an insult is so many of his responses to those with whom he disagrees? For example, was the addition of “bed wetter” in his comment above necessary?

Because I feel like it, liberal. What are you going to do about it, besides whine some more?

The resources of the United States should be focused on American citizens living in poverty — and there are many of them.

We could bring this debate to an if the United States applied to illegal aliens the same laws Mexico applies to illegal aliens in Nexico. That would be fair, wouldn’t it.

The guest worker program is one of the stupidest ideas Bush has ever come up with. People bitch and moan about these awful immigrants in this country, but no one’s complaining about the cheap labor we get from them at the slave wages we pay.

Bush republicans are very fond of saying “well, they’re going to do jobs that Americans won’t do”. The truth is, there are Americans who would do these jobs, but Americans want them at a least a minimum, decent living wages that would let them afford basic meals, a room to live in and a bathroom. Business owners in this country don’t want people to realize this fact and continue with these false reasons for this program.

I also find it interesting that this whole issue has now boiled up when Bush has (once again) hit rock bottom in his poll ratings. So if you agree with this guest worker program, then how exactly do weed out potential bad seeds from a group who may do almost anything (including working for terrorists) to make money?

Did rwp fail to read GayPatriotWest’s recent plea for those posting comments to tone down the name-calling? Or did he just choose to ignore it?

So you mean to say that politicians should govern by public opinion polls?

What part of “representative” don’t you understand, bed-wetter?

I agree with the President on the necessity of a guest-worker program for many of those already here…

You do realize, don’t you, that a “guest worker” program merely institutionalizes the “guest workers” in low-wage jobs–and by that I mean jobs that would pay wages below what could be commanded if the “guest workers” were not in the US. That has been the experience with “guest worker” jobs in the hi-tech industry–so-called H1B visas. The hi-tech companies in the US cried for the H1B program because–they claimed–they could not find enough home-grown Americans to supply their demand for workers. Some of that may be true, but the way that the H1B program developed, the companies could pay less for H1B workers than for home-grown American workers. Companies loved it.

The GOP has controlled the Congress since 1994 and has failed to do anything.

What do you expect? The GOP’s major constituency prefers low-wage (even off-the-books) workers. They pay at a lower rate than otherwise. And they pay little employment-related taxes. No social security or medicare. No unemployment or workman’s compensation. No benefits. No nothing. Of course, one would expect that the employers would have to pay some taxes, otherwise the IRS might do an audit, but it is far from clear that it does.

Let’s send them all back to Central America!

That way, the Republicans can outsource all our jobs to the 12 million immigrants we just deported!

By the way… when gay foreigners get “married” to Americans… do they get citizenship? No? How’s that make you feel?

We both know, Joe, why the borders haven’t been secured. Big donors to the GOP want all those workers they can employ at near-slave wages and poor working conditions.

BTW, I’m surprised Bruce let you post something so critical of his can-do-nothing-wrong Dubya.