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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Suma who wrote (40292)8/6/2007 10:55:43 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 543207
 
I just read and article where this Congress has a lower rating than Bush and the blame is going to all the Democrats.

I think Congress's low rating has multiple roots, two in particular. Obviously, the Iraq mess--the people who want out right away are pissed that nothing has been done, even though, realistically, the Democrats can't do it on their own, and the Republicans are in mood to allow it. But I think equally important is the immigration issue. It is an incredibly difficult issue. Some want it (illegal immigation) to continue because of cheap labor as well as the control they have over that labor (no complaining or you get booted from the country, not just the job) and others because it is their family and ethnic group and still others because--well, I'm not really certain why some want it. But a large number of number of people want it stopped because they are clogging our schools, our hospitals and our jails. And because they are cheap malleable labor. It is an intensely emotional issue that the country can't compromise its way out of. Congress is simply being respresentative of the country when it fails to comes to grips with it. It is easier to blame them, though, than to think about how to resolve these two painful issues.
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