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Millionaires beg for more taxes!
Millionaires beg for more taxes!

Klingenschmitt says our Army has manly men - not feminized...yet
Klingenschmitt says our Army has manly men - not feminized...yet
Rebooting the American Dream
"Illegal immigration"

"There are some jobs Americans won't do" is a lie. Americans will do virtually any legal job if they're paid a decent wage.

The history of the labor struggle in America has always been about securing wages and benefits that provide a decent living for workers and their families. And the best way to guarantee that is by making sure the labor market is not flooded. Working Americans have always known this simple equation: More workers, lower wages; fewer workers, higher wages.

Progressives fought - and many lost their lives in the battle - for a 50 hour week and 10 hour day, then for a 40 hour week and 8 hour day, against child labor, for unions, for laws that would regulate immigration into the United States, and against illegal immigration.

And yet, a snapshot of the labor situation in March 2010 shows us that there were more than 32 million Americans who were unemployed or under-employed. At the same time, the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. had quadrupled since 1980 and the percentage of the private workforce in the U.S. that was unionized declined from roughly 25 percent to around 7 percent.

As long as employers are willing and able (without severe penalties) to hire illegal workers, people will risk life and limb to grab at the America Dream. When we stop hiring and paying them, most will leave of their own volition over a few years, and the remaining few who are committed to the US will obtain citizenship through normal channels. It is an illegal employer problem, not an illegal immigration problem.

We also need to require that all non-refugee immigrants go through the same process to become American citizens or legal workers in this country (no amnesties, no "guest workers," no "legalizations") regardless of how they got here. And we need to make it clear that while health care is a human right and anyone needing medical service while in the United States will get it, no one has the right to a public education, or a job or any government help unless they are here legally.

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