In my House/energy crisis blog yesterday, I may have made it sound like the House of Reps did nothing as the hours ticked away to their five-week recess.
And that, of course, is not the case.
On Thursday, after weeks of wrangling, Republicans managed to get the E-Verify laws extended for another five years. This law helps employers know they're hiring people who are in this country LEGALLY, be they Americans or those who have LEGAL documentation. They wanted 12 years. The Libs wanted two, anticipating a further shift in power would give them the opportunity in 2010 to completely wipe these laws away. Thanks to a public outcry (yes, Americans still care about illegal immigration) and a 24-hour fax/phone campaign by our friends at NumbersUSA, the Libs acquiesced and agreed to five years.
Well, now the Senate Libs (led by New Jersey's top crook Robert Menendez) are trying, before their recess begins this weekend, to make a stealth attachment to the bill that would add authorization to import 550,000 more foreign workers!
This when the latest data released Friday shows the unemployment rate now at 5.7 percent. Since December, 463,000 Americans have lost their jobs, and the rate seems to be poised to rise even higher.
You no doubt heard the latter numbers throughout every form of media yesterday. Highly doubtful you heard about the former, though.
These aren't corporate CEOs losing their jobs ... the people Libs love to hate. These are everyday, middle- and lower-class folks ... the people Libs pretend to care about.
The most troubling thing to me is, that many of those people continue in their blind support of Democrats who don't actually give a rat's patootie about them.
When is this country going to wake up? What's it going to take?
(Imported from Aug. 2, 2008)
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