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I don't understand ehy "Big Business" would care one way or the other about the guest worker program. Why would they want to pay an illegal $3.50 an hour when they can get Chinese slave labour for about that much in a week?
Quite simple, you can't have Chinese slave labor doing all the cooking in the kitches of most large chain restaurants, or busing tables, or working construction on large construction sites. Chinese labor works just fine for exporting manufacturing jobs and technology jobs where it doesn't matter, but you have to have cheap labor to fill local jobs too. Yes, small business benefits too, but you can be sure it is such groups as the restaurant and tourism lobby groups that are pushing Congress to approve this blanket amnesty being called a "Guest Worker" program. Besides, Kevin, you completely ignore the fact that the biggest proponent of this Guest Worker crap is the present leader of the GOP, our President. Yeah McCain (whom I used to respect) has caved now and gotten inline with the Party doctrine, and well, that's what I expected from Kennedy, and the Tancredos are the minority in the GOP, most are just marching right behind W in the rush to make the Citizens of Mexico defacto Citizens of the United States. The Democrats are already in bed with that Lobby, that's no big surprise, but the GOP, whom everyone proclaims as the defender of Americas moral virtue, are right there alongside of them.
Last edited by Bayern710; 06/21/2006 7:40 PM.