🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 05:17:33 -0700, "fred" <wismel@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
><FYI> wrote in message news:dfk2g2l1s55u5v1mib2ahb1t4e3edduleh@4ax.com...
>> Dave Gorak: Senators disappoint on immigration bill
>>
>> By Dave Gorak
>> June 16, 2006
>>
>> As I was growing up on Chicago's South Side, hardly a day passed when I 
>> did not hear that
>> the "Democrats always stand up for the working guy."
>>
>> In those days workers were men like my father, who labored as truck 
>> drivers and janitors
>> and in the Union Stockyards for wages that allowed them to support their 
>> families.
>>
>> But today's Democrats are a different breed. In fact, many of them could 
>> easily pass for
>> Republicans because of their newfound love: "cheap" labor. What you 
>> quickly learn by
>> watching them in Congress is that the "working guys" whom Democrats are 
>> eager to support
>> are the foreign-born, especially the 12 million here illegally. These 
>> workers are getting
>> first crack at "a better life" even though 14 million Americans, including 
>> many of our
>> working poor, can't find full-time jobs.
>>
>> Wisconsin's Democratic senators, Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, proved 
>> beyond a doubt on May
>> 25 that they care more about the "needs" of corporate America than they do 
>> about America's
>> working men and women.
>>
>> On that day they and 60 of their Senate colleagues voted to grant amnesty 
>> to 12 million
>> illegal immigrants and also approved adding potentially 66 million more 
>> foreign workers and
>> their families to our already exploding population during the next 20 
>> years.
>>
>> This was not Feingold's and Kohl's finest hour: They now must explain why 
>> they supported
>> the nation's largest amnesty since the "one-time-only" amnesty for 2.7 
>> million illegals in
>> 1986. The bill they approved also calls for giving Social Security 
>> benefits to illegal
>> immigrants; requiring the U.S. to consult the Mexican government before 
>> building any walls
>> along the border; and doubling legal immigration to 2 million people a 
>> year.
>>
>> Feingold and Kohl have long and dismal voting records on immigration 
>> legislation. (See
>> their "report cards" and specific voting actions at
>> http://grades.betterimmigration.com/delegation.php3?District=WI.)
>>
>> Following his vote, Sen. Feingold said: "We have reached a defining moment 
>> in a debate that
>> touches the lives of millions of Americans in every part of the country, 
>> from the Mexican
>> border to northern states like my home state of Wisconsin."
>>
>> He is so right.
>>
>> According to Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA in Arlington, Va., the 
>> Senate bill "is a
>> measure that, if enacted, would dramatically change most occupations and 
>> communities in
>> America with the largest movement of foreign workers in U.S. history."
>>
>> What is so infuriating about the votes by Feingold and Kohl is that they 
>> mock their own
>> recent public statements.
>>
>> In his TV campaign ads, for example, Sen. Kohl says that he wants to "be 
>> your senator and
>> nobody else's" and that the people of Wisconsin are his "only special 
>> interests." Adding 66
>> million people to our society and encouraging millions more to come 
>> illegally is in our
>> interests?
>>
>> Feingold's vote is even more troubling because during his April 20 
>> "listening session" in
>> Monroe County, he told his audience that he "opposes unrestrained 
>> population growth." What
>> is his definition of "unrestrained"?
>>
>> Feingold says the House immigration bill is "nothing short of a disaster," 
>> yet the Senate's
>> package is a mirror image of the 1986 debacle. That action, noted 
>> NumbersUSA's Beck, began
>> 20 years of failed immigration policy.
>>
>> If this country is to survive as we know it, it won't be because of 
>> politicians like
>> Feingold and Kohl.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> www.numbersusa.com
>> www.americanpatrol.com
>
>Let it be noted that Kohl and Feingold voted in step with every other Jew in 
>the US Senate.
>
and also in step with most non Jews, I think.

Senator Frist said after passage - This is a success for the American
people.

President Bush needs a success, too bad the House won't help him out
on this one.

 

>Fred 
>