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HOW THE GOP LOST MIDDLE AMERICA
HumanEvents ^ | January 31, 2014

Posted on 03/07/2014 12:10:06 PM PST by Steelfish

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To: Smokin' Joe

Instead of deporting them back to Mexico, lets send them to Russia as a present to Putin.


21 posted on 03/07/2014 12:41:02 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SMARTY
At that time, a lot of it was really cheap skilled workers, the H1-B workers from India.

The truth was that it was the American IT worker who became expensive and unskilled, even if only temporarily.

Many companies going into the 1990's had cut back on internal workforce training as a cost-cutting measure just as the technology was rapidly making a generational change. Those same companies then used this situation to claim that they needed the new-skilled workers immediately and couldn't wait for the American worker to retrain. That led to the rapid growth in the H1-B workers.

The H1-B program was supposed to be for jobs looking for workers, but once here the people became workers looking for jobs, and willing to takelower wages.

tThat's how we got to where we are today.

-PJ

22 posted on 03/07/2014 12:55:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: All

One word: cowardice......
The GOP have become afraid of speaking the truth for fear of being called racist/bigot blah, blah.....


23 posted on 03/07/2014 12:59:50 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: Steelfish

Democrats only want the voters. Some Republicans wanted cheap labor.


24 posted on 03/07/2014 1:01:43 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Steelfish

Not enough free stuff


25 posted on 03/07/2014 1:05:57 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: central_va

So Perot was right?


26 posted on 03/07/2014 1:09:25 PM PST by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
1. It’s been Democrats from the get go that have pushed for illegal aliens to be made citizens

It's been both parties all along. Back when Reagan signed the first amnesty, the Attorney General began to enforce the employer ID provisions seriously. A group of Republican congressmen wrote a letter to him complaining that the enforcement was hurting business and threatening to cut the DOJ budget. After that there was never any serious effort enforcing those provisions. Pretending Pubs aren't a part of the problem is the revisionist history.

2. A Democrat, Bill Clinton signed NAFA.

Most of the votes in Congress came from Pubs. Almost all the votes against were Democrats.

27 posted on 03/07/2014 1:26:03 PM PST by Hugin
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To: Hugin

more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act too.

That’s not exactly a measure of who wanted it the most.


28 posted on 03/07/2014 1:38:39 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

You spoke all the right words to the GOPe. Clearly. Concisely. - You know what they heard? . . . .
“Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, GOPe, blah, blah . . . blah . . . blah . . . blah . .”


29 posted on 03/07/2014 3:25:54 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: gnickgnack2

Damn ‘sucking sound’ Ross was right


30 posted on 03/07/2014 4:31:43 PM PST by 11th_VA (I want a president who won't enforce tax laws ...)
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To: Maverick68

Don’t forget the constant bullying by the lib media.


31 posted on 03/07/2014 10:56:21 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Steelfish
They don't stand for anything but moving left for the Democrats, so they are Democrat-lite.

Now they are going to pick up seats due to Obama being a disaster, but they will think it is because they are such a great success and not because they are simply the lesser of two evils.

We need conservatives to speak and act win or lose.

32 posted on 03/07/2014 10:59:30 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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