Reply #7: As a construction worker....

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who makes a decent wage for Arkansas, I have lost work in favor of paying a lower wage to people who, as stated many times here, are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. What I find incredulous, is those who bitch about sending jobs overseas in favor of paying a lower wage to "those trying to make a better life for themselves and their families." Bush's direction is the same direction many here on DU favor. They may try and justify it by giving it a different label, but the results will be the same. Disastrous in the long run. Whether one opines on this subject as a noble cause for humanity, or one of greed and power, as we all know is Bush's goal, what good comes from it if the results are the same? Open borders, repressed wages, and huge profits for the corporations. I think the "educated elite" are so removed from the blue-collar world, they have no problem ignoring thier plight, and using them as pawns in their efforts to further their "noble" cause of amnesty and open borders, as the threat to their livelihood is virtually non-existent in that the vast majority of all who cross the border illegally are not a financial threat to them, except when it comes to outsourcing their white collar jobs, and then, all of a sudden, it's an injustice and a travesty. In my mind, the only difference is that on the illegal immigration issue, the people are coming here, while on the outsourcing issue, the jobs are going there.(India, etc.) Perhaps someone could explain to me why my blue collar job is less immportant than a white collar job, after all, without the men and women who sweat and toil laying the roads and putting up the office buildings the white collars work in, where would they be? I would venture a guess that if those who favor open borders and amnesty were to suddenly find themselves surviving in the blue collar world, they would change their tune on more than a few things in short order. Seems what is good for the goose, is not always good for the gander. I suppose if a DUer can be compared to a Nazi because she/he doesn't think Maria Shrivers dress was appropriate for Ladybird's funeral, I can take any criticism offered by the "enlightened". My o2. Thanks.
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