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after giving republicans much deserved bashing for their complete mismanagement of our country's affairs, it's time to give the dems' a nice shot in the pants...

watching this whole immigration battle progress, the dems are clearly playing games imo.. they're using this issue to splinter the once-united republican party. of course, the republicans have already been splintering apart with mid-term elections drawing near, and incumbents falling over themselves to run away from bush - but the dems want to twist the knife in their wounds apparently..

the dems are currently pushing their own legislation that is extremely generous to ILLEGAL immigrants. at face value, it doesn't specify how its provisions (requiring they learn english, etc.) would actually be enforced.. something nice on paper and completely toothless in reality. and at the same time, they oppose building a wall, or any other measure to actually stop/drastically reduce the constant flow of illegals into our country. there are a lot of republicans who are no different on this issue, like mccain for instance, but they are splintered while the dems are united in their pro-illegal immigration stance.

one of the most favored arguments the dems love using is that these people enter our country to "do work that americans don't want to do".. what utter bullshit. the reason why americans don't want to do that work is because they can't afford to receive depressed mexican wages (however many cents/hour that comes out to be).. the wages weren't always that bad, and there certainly used to be lots of americans working as sanitation workers, construction workers, farm hands, etc.. hell, my grandfather didn't have any problem working on a farm driving a tractor for a period of time.. wages used to be good for people in these lines of work, but the pro-illegal immigration group's acceptance of illegal immigration has created the environment where these jobs no longer pay livable wages (by american standards)..

the dems have recently been suggesting that our economy needs illegal immigrants to come in (illegally) and work for pennies.. what a load of bullshit. if illegals were gone, there certainly would be a labor void, and employers would be forced to pay more for labor, which would cause prices to inflate.. but, what isn't said is that equilibrium would eventually set in - we got used to exploiting illegals for cheap labor and we can easily get used to having americans paid to do the same work.