Reply #9: Classist much?

[ultraist]

"Starbucks sipping upper middle class could care less, and that's on both sides of the aisle."

That's not true.

There are a number of ways to ensure Americans have adequate employment and support programs. Scapegoating immigrants is not one of them. As I see it, one of the biggest problems is giving big corps, who outsource, welfare so that their CEOs can rake in 20 Million+ salaries. The monetary incentives to outsource should be halted. The real drain on the welfare system are the big corp welfare queens.

http://www.corporations.org/welfare/#globe

The $150 billion for corporate subsidies and tax benefits eclipses the annual budget deficit of $130 billion. It's more than the $145 billion paid out annually for the core programs of the social welfare state: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), student aid, housing, food and nutrition, and all direct public assistance (excluding Social Security and medical care)."

Top Welfare Queens: ALL OF THESE CORPS OUTSOURCE

Co/amount recieved 90-94/no of jobs

GM $110,600,000 -104,000
IBM 58,000,000 -100,000
AT&T 35,000,000 -1,077 * #
GE 25,400,000 -80,000
Amoco 23,600,000 -8,300 *
DuPont 15,200,000 -29,961
Motorola 15,100,000 +9,600 *
Citicorp 9,600,000 -15,700


Other programs to lift people out of poverty should be adequately funded. Lastly, we should begin enforcing border control and get a grip on the influx of new immigrants.

Rather than demonizing the mexican construction worker or lawn service maintenace laborer, it's more appropriate to look to the root cause of our job shortage problem: THE BIG CORPS and the BUSH tax & welfare policies.