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2009-12-15 Economy

Immigration bill backers try again despite jobless rate

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Posted by Beavis 2009-12-15 10:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "It certainly will confuse the debate a lot more, but at the end of the day what we have to understand is fixing this system will be good for American workers," said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, which is one of the major advocates for legalizing illegal immigrant workers.

Good for American workers or good for SEIU? Uh-huh. Expand your membership, expand your power, pump up your revenues...you frickin' bastards. And you got crooked politicians like Gutierrez in the palm of your hand, don't you? Just like Teddy. Just like McCain. Just like Obama.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-12-15 14:23|| 2009-12-15 14:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not about the workers, it's about the voters. And our leaders don't like the current set.

Posted by ed 2009-12-15 14:25|| 2009-12-15 14:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Eliseo Medina.....TAKE THE SEIU AND JAM IT!!COMMUNIST BIT*#

Posted by armyguy 2009-12-15 14:57|| 2009-12-15 14:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, this is just wonderful.

Now the Tsar can watch his kids go to college before the guvmint (probably) will get around to finishing his citizenship application. I can hardly wait to explain to him why we paid out all that money and did everything legally so that he can sit on the sidelines while lawbreakers jump ahead of him and his buddies.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-15 16:00|| 2009-12-15 16:00|| Front Page Top

#5 OMG! This immigration legalization legislation is worse than a zombie plague. You shoot it dead, and it slowly gets back up and starts shambling forward again!

Can't these idiots get the idea: We don't want this!

Posted by LeighG 2009-12-15 16:21|| 2009-12-15 16:21|| Front Page Top

#6 It is all about expanding the dhimocrat voter base. They will have a constant majority. Forever.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-15 16:57|| 2009-12-15 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Healthcare, Cap and Tarde or the EPA equivalent, Copenhagen Treaty commitment absent Senate consultation or consent, Immigration reform, massive public debt..... there is a mood of anger in the nation, on the right, and the center, that is unlike anything I have seen or felt in my 62 years. Angry like ready to pop angry, sudden fury angry, old fat retired guy suddenly throwing a punch angry....
Zero and the Dems risk igniting something more than a ballot box revolution.... and for the first time in my life, I sincerely wonder about the transition of power as a peaceful event.
What I do no is that if immigration amnesty becomes a reality, it ends all trust between me and my government, as they prove they hold nothing sovereign or sacred, no the law or their word or their oath!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-12-15 18:49|| 2009-12-15 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Zero and the Dems risk igniting something more than a ballot box revolution....

It's well past time.

Posted by Thomas Jefferson 2009-12-15 19:29|| 2009-12-15 19:29|| Front Page Top

#9 If one governor and one state legislature would recall it's sitting members of congress and stop sending the tax money to D.C., others would follow.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-15 19:35|| 2009-12-15 19:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Zero and the Dems risk igniting something more than a ballot box revolution....

I know what you mean. I swore to defend the constitution against all enemies. Foreign and domestic. If the dems try to keep a peaceful transition of power from happening, through force or ballet box stuffing, for the first time I am thinking of open resistance. Peaceful at first, like not sending in taxes or something with sit ins on federal buildings. If met with violence, then open revolt.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-15 20:41|| 2009-12-15 20:41|| Front Page Top

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