You'll love this (slighly) OT post(thought it does relate to deeply to labor supply:
(note: I find this a unsightly part of the political scene - BUT has a very real impact on the economy & gold)
The Immigration Scandal: What The Candidates Won't Touch - Part III
Michael Savage
March 3, 2000
Part Three of a Three Part Series
(Michael Savage interviews Dan Stein of the Federation for American Immigration Reform after AFL-CIO announces illegal-amnesty support)
Savage: So you?re telling me that the invasion of the illegal alien has now reached the Canadian border in this country?
Stein: It?s coming across the Canadian border. We?re getting, you know, Mid-Easterners; we?re getting Chinese; we?re getting people from India coming across the northern border. You know about that terrorist incident in December?
Savage: So, Dan, is it all over, your argument, your attempt to keep America? Is your attempt to keep America legal, clean, and American, over? Do you have to fold up your tent and go home?
Stein: Look, I?m not gong to give up the fight. I?m not going to give up the fight. You remember that incident with the Afghani plane that was hijacked and sent into Heathrow?
Savage: Yeah, that joke; that fake hijacking.
Stein: Yeah. Well, again, you?re talking about violence, deception, people forcing their way into our country.
Savage: Well, our country?s been taken over. Dan, if you could tell me, the AFL-CIO, for all of their problems, for whatever the story was years ago about mob this mob that, at least they backed the worker. And, I?ll tell you something, I?ve been a strong union supporter all of my life, Dan, because I grew up in a blue-collar family. My parents voted Democrat, as a kid, and I understand what the unions did for the average worker, which was pretty good.
By the way, I want to tell you that, in the early days when the unions were necessary, they really made the American worker stand proud and tall and make a better living. But now you?re telling me that they?re turning their back on the American worker and trying to shaft the American worker by putting a shiv in his back, by bringing in illegal aliens. How is the worker not going to understand that, Dan?
Stein: I think people have to recognize that they can?t count on unions anymore.
Savage: How much did it cost, though, since 1986 for illegal aliens to come into this country?
Stein: For everybody?
Savage: Yeah, what would you guess?
Stein: Well, I would have to guess, I would have to guess somewhere on the order of, an off-the-cuff estimate, it would be several billion dollars. I said 78 billion dollars just for the amnesty group in 1986.
Savage: How many billion?
Stein: Seventy-eight billion.
You know, we constantly hear from the liars on the left and the liars of the Demon Cat Party that the worker contributes money to Social Security, to the Social Security Fund, and pays taxes?that?s all true. But over and above what they contribute, it?s costing we the taxpayer 80 billion dollars?
Stein: Exactly. The direct costs of the amnesty were 24 billion, which is basically 102 billion in direct government services, offset by 78 billion in taxes paid. So the negative there is 24 billion; and then you have to add indirect costs for education, other social services, and for the children of the amnesty recipients; that?s another 54.6 billion. The total fiscal cost is 78 billion dollars or a subsidy of 29,000 dollars of taxpayer money for each illegal alien that got amnesty.
Savage: Alright. Dan Stein, you have been doing the biggest job in this country, trying to warn the American worker. Let?s forget the New Yorker elite; let?s forget the Hollywood and Washington and Boston corridor. Let?s talk about the average man and woman in this country who makes less than 25,000 dollars a year. They?re the ones who are going to take it in their backside. They?re getting shafted by the Democrats; they?re getting shafted by Gore; they?re getting shafted by the AFL-CIO.
Now before you leave, what about the Republicans? Is there one amongst them who opposes this?
Stein: Only a former Republican, Pat Buchanan. Although I haven?t heard his official reaction, he has, of course, been out there quite active talking about the need to control the borders; and I would imagine he?s not (cont)http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/3/3/55129
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