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WaPo wonders: What will hundreds of thousands of job permits do to the economy?
Hotair ^ | 06/16/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/17/2012 6:29:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I’m still waiting for an article explaining how this will affect the [fake] unemployment rate of 8.2%.

Adding 800,000 or so the the ranks of the workforce and the unemployed WILL have a negative effect on the rate.


21 posted on 06/17/2012 7:02:46 AM PDT by Principled (It's not enthusiasm for Romney, it's grim determination to remove Hussein)
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To: tet68

If they pay unemployment tax they will be. Otherwise it’s a violation of law to tax them for services they cannot legally receive.

This is such a mess it’s staggering.

Good ultimately for America though, because the outrage as more of this becomes understood, it will force congress to act or be thrown from office. It will bring it ALL to a head.


22 posted on 06/17/2012 7:05:07 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: F15Eagle
Obama calculated he’d get more votes by pandering to illegal immigration, than to unemployed American workers

It has got to make the security and intelligence communities in America ill to think that the loyalty of the Commander In Chief as questionable.

23 posted on 06/17/2012 7:06:14 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Article 58)
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To: Rome2000

Sad to say but Madison and his cohort had little knowledge of the history of democratic forms of government ~ there was an awful lot of guessing and theoretical temporizing in their discussions of their own grand experiment.


24 posted on 06/17/2012 7:27:47 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: tet68

If you can’t find a job and never had one you don’t get unemployment compensation. European systems do provide unemployment to students.


25 posted on 06/17/2012 7:29:40 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Rome2000

re: “The sooner the inevitable collapse caused by ignoring the Founders and amending the Constitution to institute Universal Suffrage happens, the better. Then the Republic can be reset and the vote extended only to taxpayers and Veterans.”

You mean civil war don’t you? The sooner the better? You do know what an all out civil war would entail don’t you? How do you know that the Republic will “reset” to what our Founders established, let alone the right to vote only going to taxpayers and veterans?

I assume the quotes you used from the Founders are intended to say that we no longer have a democratic republic, and that our government has evolved into a pure democracy. I would agree that we are certainly headed that direction, but I still think we are a republic and that the slide toward a “pure democracy” can still be averted.

The problem with this idea that a total collapse of our country into a civil war will produce a renewed, reset, and better America, as envisioned by our Founders, is that once a civil war begins there’s no telling where it will end up politically. It could just as easily turn us into a pure totalitarian state, communist state, or just decades of guerilla warfare run by groups of differing warlords.

As long as we can still vote, still have the possibility of removing those we don’t like in office through the ballot box (not bullets), and still have the possibility of changing the direction of our nation through Constitutional means, then I’m against open civil war. When and if our government removes all constitutional means for change, civil war will erupt on its own - but, again, what will happen politically is a complete unknown.

Civil war may come, but I would never hope for it.


26 posted on 06/17/2012 7:33:09 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe this has been brought up already, but I haven’t noticed it. There is an additional reason for American citizens to be concerned: all of these formerly illegal aliens will now be legally eligible for affirmative action benefits, meaning that they may be given preferential treatment as job applicants and college applicants because of their minority status.


27 posted on 06/17/2012 7:33:52 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: SeekAndFind

First stage to amnesty,everything is going as planed.
Ted Kennedy smiles.


28 posted on 06/17/2012 7:38:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Norm Lenhart

The government is already duplicitous enough to camoflage an illegal’s provenance by negating many established requirements while simultaneously requiring normal American Citizens to contend with overly stringent requirements.

Congress can’t even get a truthful answer from DOJ about Gunwalker and Fast and Furious for cripes sake.

I submit motor voter laws and spontaneous poll affadavits as an example of this hypocrisy.

And your comment about unintended consequences is entirely plausible. If I were a business owner and had to hire people and illegals were indistinguishable, how do you think I’d solve the problem if I were vehemently against this government on its policy? Hmmm?


29 posted on 06/17/2012 7:41:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rusty schucklefurd
I think everyone is missing the big picture. What easier way to start race riots? The L.A. riots a few years back—according to my cousin that was in the middle of it— were caused by the African Americans thinking the foreigners from Asia were getting more guberment help than they were and jealously was the cause.

With enough race riots in the country our Dear Leader will declare Martial Law and try to take over.

30 posted on 06/17/2012 7:45:26 AM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

What will this do to the official unemployment rate hovering around 8% but really 12-16%?


31 posted on 06/17/2012 7:48:33 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Agreed. The question is-When does this take effect? If it takes effect upon Obamas signature, then the UCX rate just went up about 2%. Regardless of which Gerrymandered statistic the Rats chose to present.

Americans are fed up. BHO knows he is going to lose in a landslide. He is trying to ruin the country and suck out the remaining monies. He has accomplished what he set out to do.


32 posted on 06/17/2012 8:05:09 AM PDT by DrDude (Governor of the 57th State)
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To: SeekAndFind

Refusing to enforce laws that protect American workers is a natural outcome of a Permanent Ruling Aristocracy form of government. Without the right of states to secede, it is impossible to regulate the tyranny and corruption of the Permanent Ruling Aristocracy (party bosses, lobbyists, federal employee union bosses, major Washington D.C. law firms, and the military/industrial/international banking complex) and their Orwellian Ministers of Truth (America’s newrooms and faculty lounges).


33 posted on 06/17/2012 8:31:46 AM PDT by sforkjoe57 (How much longer must Americans be slaves to the stupidity of John Maynard Keynes?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ubama will decree that they get to collect unemployment if they can’t find jobs.


34 posted on 06/17/2012 8:34:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This racist move imposes slave wages on LEGAL immigrants!!


35 posted on 06/17/2012 8:41:17 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: SeekAndFind

More Mexican restaurants or roofing companies competing with one another, will likely drive some to Canada...


36 posted on 06/17/2012 9:02:58 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: Gaffer
Well, since the government will likely aide the ‘now-documented’ illegal in covering up the trail, it will be very difficult I imagine to sort the illegals from the citizens."

What it means is that illegals will have work permits to waive at employers while citizens will not.
As soon as a couple of citizens file a complaint about being asked for the same kind of permits the feds will rise up against "profiling".
DOJ will, of course, take immediate action.
And documentation will be effectively a moot issue - no one will be willing to check doc's or ask questions.

37 posted on 06/17/2012 9:03:59 AM PDT by norton
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To: norton
And documentation will be effectively a moot issue - no one will be willing to check doc's or ask questions.

And, that gets us back to my original supposition: What would an employer then do if presented with a possible illegal applying for a job? Would he, if overwhelmingly against Obama's action, take it out on all hispanics applying for a job? After all, it likely will be next to impossible to tell who is who. There's a simple fix for that.

38 posted on 06/17/2012 9:08:29 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

Are there provisions in this executive order that if and when you hire one of these legal/illegal “children” do they have to be a member of a union?


39 posted on 06/17/2012 9:10:27 AM PDT by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: tet68

“It says they won’t be eligible for Medicare but...”

That’s ok, we don’t have the money to pay Medicare for the current recipients, much less the folks that expect to collect sometime in the future, whether citizen, documented immigrant, or semi-documented immigrant.


40 posted on 06/17/2012 9:32:40 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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