Businesses need immigrant workers but extremists 'are stirring the pots of hatred'

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 02/10/2008 07:06:28 AM MST | Tom Harvey

[DoughtyOne]

Every time they talk about what jobs U.S. Citizens won’t do, I look back on the jobs I’ve done. I know exactly where you’re coming from.

At a boarding school I was paid $0.49 cents an hour for my services. The idiots. Who knew they could pay someone $0.25 cents an hour for the same job? LOL

Take care.

[LibLieSlayer]

TO ACCUSE THOSE OF US THAT DEMAND THAT OUR LAWS BE RESPECTED AND ENFORCED... OF BEING RACIST OR BIGOTED... IS IN ITSELF, AN ACT OF RACISM!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

AND BIGOTRY!

LLS

[Paleo Conservative]

Exuse me, but aren’t there people on the welfare rolls who could do the work?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Bill was more moderate than Hill could ever be. He also had a Republican House and Senate to keep him in line. Right now it looks like Obambi will win, with a dim controlled House and Senate. I don’t much care for this scenario and will hold my nose and vote for McSleazy.

Believe me, I’m not one bit happy about it either!

[Iron Munro]

There you have it: If you don't agree to throw your country over to the 3rd world, you're an irrational hater.

[Just mythoughts]

Personally I am getting tired of the ONLY thing these OPEN BORDERS hiring McCain and CO., guests have to justify their illegal activity is that we are purists and racist.

I might have to vote for Obama to prove them wrong.

[DoughtyOne]

Bill had a democrat house and senate from 1992 to 1994.

Think about why the house and senate changed.

Hillary or Obama wouldn’t have a democrat house and senate for their whole term, IMO.

[Enterprise]

Illegals kill about a dozen Americans a day. But it’s good for business.

[dalereed]

Whoever named the “earned income tax credit” was the biggest con man that ever lived!

I would have better to name it Welfare From the Taxpayer Theft Fund.

[DoughtyOne]

Much better...

[alice_in_bubbaland]

The nation seems pretty ticked off at the Republicans and Bush for a broad spectrum of reasons. Some well founded, some hysterical bs. I’m not taking that chance, and therefore I will be a nose holder!

[dalereed]

“aren’t there people on the welfare rolls who could do the work?”

You would be suprise at how much those on welfare can do when the choice is work or starve to death.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! So true! The EITC annoys me to to no end!

[DoughtyOne]

Alice, go ahead. If that’s what you think I encourage you to. You will at some point in your life see that playing along is futile. When you do, you can smile and look back these times.

Take care.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Fine with me! Good luck crying in your beer for 8 + years!

[DoughtyOne]

You have a nice day too Alice.

[Syncro]

The tears completely supplanted the beer long ago and the mug is gone.

New tactics are now in effect.

[Condor51]

DRAT! I had a nice response for this Ivory jerk - and lost it.

Bottom line -- from my 38 years in Construction, what he's saying and promoting is utter tripe. And the houses he's building with his ILLEGAL labor are a DANGER TO THE PUBLIC.

An unskilled, uneducated, illiterate worker who doesn't speak English, let alone able to read a Blueprint - has NO BUSINESS being anywhere near a Construction site. A house or a 40 story Hi-Rise, it's all the same, the scale only varies.

I'm no union apologist but they don't go through all those years of apprenticeship for fun. From Carpentry to the Electrical and Plumbing there's codes and trade industry standards that MUST be followed. Or if that Concrete isn't mixed per the Architect's detailed spec's (as per his Structural Engineer) for the applicable weather conditions when poured, look out buster -- someone is going to DIE. And I certainly wouldn't go in any of those Commercial Buildings mentioned if ILLEGAL labor was used.

This Clark Ivory should be jailed just for stupidity besides criminal negligence.

And I've got his extremist right "here".

[E. Cartman]

Greedy American businessmen are fast destroying my belief in capitalism as practised currently in the US. It seems that more and more businesses are taking the take ‘easy’ way of bribing elected officials and relying on de-facto slave labor rather investing and innovating. The short-sighteness and arrogance of some business leaders is simply unbelievable. Do they really think they will able to avoid the predictable consequences of the current demographic shifts in the US?

And do they think after they pauperize the current crop of Reagan democrats, traditional blue collar workers, they'll continue voting republican instead of supporting Hillzilla and her socialist programs? It was businesses like this, which have been working to actively destroy their own societies for another nickel of profit, that Lenin was thinking of when he said that the capitalists would sell them the rope with which they would hang them.