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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:46 AM Original message |
Border Control vs. Cleaning Up Wall Street |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. We should make it easier to be legal |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. and far, far harder and more costly to be a criminal bankster. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. If the border is uncontrollable, newly legalized immigrants will be quickly be replaced by new |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. You can't phyiscally stop immigrants from crossing |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 06:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. That's not working either though |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
2. If Democrats are truly for the working class, they need to fight illegal immigration hard. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Fine, you do stoop labor in the fields. Not many Americans will, even for $14/hr. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. This is a horrible argument: "SOMEBODY needs to be exploited for cheap labor!" |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Without the "illegal labor" discount, wages would rise for everyone. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Right. That would be a VERY GOOD thing. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. In this economy, there has been a net outflow of undocumented workers. |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Only because the number of jobs has decreased. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Just wait. There will be more departures, unfortunately for all of us but the few very rich |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Is that you President Bush? |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Even Bush wasn't perfectly wrong about everything. Immigration isn't a Dem v GOP |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:32 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I suppose then you are 100% pro-outsourcing |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:41 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I am pro-insourcing, which means something entirely different from the failed policies |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:42 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. So your solution to illegal immigration is to tax walmart |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. No. That's part of the solution to restoring the U.S. economy and fiscal base. |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. So again, your solution is corporate taxes |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 09:00 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I don't think it's feasible to enforce the border |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 09:36 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. The best solution would be multi-factorial |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 09:06 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. You seem to imagine that the only federal gov't policy that effects corps is taxes |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 09:37 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. We keep going around in circles here |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. I say, how can we get this cotton picked without the coerced labor of the negro? |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. This really gets to the heart of the matter. nt |
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