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neadodsFair warning, this is political commentary.
Head over to Google News and read the articles that pop up on these searches: "amnesty program illegal" and "jobs overseas."
Now, neither the program to give amnesty to illegal workers to come over here and work, nor the report that it is a good thing to outsource jobs overseas have made the front page/above fold of the Post or USA Today, nor the covers of Time or Newsweek. (I can't tell where they end up on the papers listed in Google News.)
They damn well ought to, and they ought to be run side by side. Look at 'em again. It will "stimulate" our economy to allow illegal immigrants to come in and legally take jobs. Ditto to send the jobs we currently have overseas.
Work is scarcer than hen's teeth and it's supposed to be a good thing to take MORE jobs away from U.S. workers? I'm sure it's a wonderful thing if you're a CEO, but ... !
I don't know what outrages me more; that these ideas are being floated in parallel by any administration, or that the news outlets are spending more high-profile time/print space on Janet Jackson's boob and Mel Gibson's movie than on issues that affect the nation's standard of living.
Head over to Google News and read the articles that pop up on these searches: "amnesty program illegal" and "jobs overseas."
Now, neither the program to give amnesty to illegal workers to come over here and work, nor the report that it is a good thing to outsource jobs overseas have made the front page/above fold of the Post or USA Today, nor the covers of Time or Newsweek. (I can't tell where they end up on the papers listed in Google News.)
They damn well ought to, and they ought to be run side by side. Look at 'em again. It will "stimulate" our economy to allow illegal immigrants to come in and legally take jobs. Ditto to send the jobs we currently have overseas.
Work is scarcer than hen's teeth and it's supposed to be a good thing to take MORE jobs away from U.S. workers? I'm sure it's a wonderful thing if you're a CEO, but ... !
I don't know what outrages me more; that these ideas are being floated in parallel by any administration, or that the news outlets are spending more high-profile time/print space on Janet Jackson's boob and Mel Gibson's movie than on issues that affect the nation's standard of living.
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Date: 2004-02-11 08:08 pm (UTC)There's been something written on those stories in the NY Times and/or Time and Newsweek since I've read about them. But like you say they haven't been on the front page anywhere. They've done a bit more on the outsourcing issues because some Dems have thought to make it a rallying cry. No one wants to talk about the indentured servitude plans (that's basically what they sound like) because it's supposed to be pro-Hispanic. Maybe it sounds good to those trying to get into the country. But it's a loss of jobs for those already here and a return to indentured servitude that gives companies way too much power over people's lives.
But that's the point of the administration we now have in power. Companies first! Leave no billionaire behind!