"US"* Senate -- taken over by aliens
don’t bother lookin’ around for the pods...
How many surprises do ya figure have been slipped into those 6-freakin’-hundred pages of the Senate’s Amnesty Bill?
Here’s one:
The Senate’s handiwork this week deserves far more attention than it has received,... Among the little-noticed provisions in the Senate bill is one that shatters the economic rationale for millions of new unskilled, affordable foreign workers. When a bill depends on Democratic votes for passage, the unions are empowered to transform the business community’s demand for “cheap labor” into a guarantee that guest-workers will be among the most costly labor in the workforce.The bill extends Davis-Bacon “prevailing wage” provisions—typically the area’s union wage that applies only to construction on federal projects under current law—to all occupations (e.g. roofers, carpenters, electricians, etc.) covered by Davis-Bacon. So guest-workers (but not citizen workers) must be paid Davis-Bacon wage rates for jobs in the private sector if their occupation is covered by Davis-Bacon. Presumably because Senate Democrats’ union bosses thought this provision too modest, an amendment by Senator Barack Obama, approved by voice vote, extended Davis-Bacon wages rates to all private work performed by guest workers, even if their occupations are not covered by Davis-Bacon.
Now, I’m no economist—hell; I can hardly spell it. But I think this bodes ill for my kids’ future. Have I missed something?
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*yanno—that country soon to be formerly known as America
Add to that our brilliant Senators (Boxer and Feinstein) voting against the other little add-in that would have called English the official language (Boxer said, “Who needs it? Everybody knows that English is already the national language. Comprende?").
Then there’s the part about putting them in the Social Security System ("how the heck else are we gonna keep it goin’?")
These are gettin’ to be the times that try men’s souls.
Posted by ZZMike on 05/22/06 at 03:11 PM
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