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To: bentway who wrote (343629)	7/19/2007 9:51:32 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1576891

I think the problen also stems from neither party wanting to lose votes or wanting to gains votes.

To: bentway who wrote (343629)	7/19/2007 9:53:11 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576891

I think the problem also stems from neither party wanting to lose votes or wanting to gains votes. Among other things, On a personal basis, Bush wants to help his Texas buddies. Can't go against his bros family etc.

To: bentway who wrote (343629)	7/19/2007 1:07:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576891

Some industries, like the hotel industry, employ a LOT of illegals. INS could round up all the maids and housekeepers in the border states and they'd ALL be illegal. And we MAY need them. That's yet to be determined. Let's see if small businessmen jacking up pay solves the problem. If it doesn't, then we'll need some form of LEGAL guest worker program. My experience has been......and its purely anecdotal......that the further you get from the border the less illegals you have working even in the industries that you traditionally find illegals. However, I have also noted that payscales tend to be higher than those nearer the border states. I tend to agree with you that small businesses are a major employer of illegals but with an estimated 12 million illegals, I have to believe that there are some large corps. taking advantage as well. Given the growing number of communities and states passing laws unfriendly to illegals, I think Congress eventually will be forced to do something.

To: bentway who wrote (343629)	7/19/2007 2:52:03 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576891

I thought Al Gore had the fastest connection? Swedish woman gets superfast Internet 56 minutes ago STOCKHOLM, Sweden - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said. In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit. Jonsson and Lothberg's son, Peter, worked together to install the connection. The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said. "We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed," he said. Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother. "She's a brand-new Internet user," Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. "She didn't even have a computer before." His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.