Reply #39: Of Course It Bothers Me.

[maxrandb]

It bothers be a great deal. What needs to be done is to hold the Bush cronies and "anti-American" corporations accountable. Someone is hiring these workers, and like it or not, the American people are benefiting in the form of lower prices. One poster was complaining about how much illegal immigrants are costing his area in medical costs. Someone should ask that poster if he is just as pissed at Wal-Mart?

What ought to piss people off is not that we have illegal immigrants entering this country to try to make a decent living. What should piss people off is that corporations are hiring them, because they don't want to pay a living wage to Americans, or provide any type of employee benefit packages.

If we had any organized labor left in this country, that was willing to fight for "living wages", maybe, just maybe, people would make enough money so that paying $5 for a head of lettuce is not that extreme.

And no, I don't "go out looking for sweat-shop jeans to save 0.50", and I don't appreciate your inference.

I just wish that, even for one day (or even better one week), every illegal immigrant that is making $2.50 an hour stopped working.

And if you buy into the "it's hurting the local economy" BS that the right-wing spews, you're overlooking the possibility that "jingoism" and racism, may just play a little role in all the outrage.

I'm no historian, but it might help me believe that racism is not part of this if someone could point me to some stories about the "1920's Minuteman Group" that set up shop off the Atlantic Ocean to stop white Irish and German people from entering this country.

And I will guarantee you one thing. If a majority of hispanics voted Republican, we would not be having this arguement..but you just keep on spewing right-wing talking points on a Democratic site.