Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Tom Teepen doesn't lie...

...nor does he tell the whole truth! You see, Arizona has become the first of the individual states to go above and beyond the federal government to practice ACTUAL ILLEGAL ALIEN CONTROL! Yes, instead of erecting showy fences or passing worthless legislation, they elected this year to hit the illegals where it hurts...in the pocket. As of yesterday, companies caught with illegal aliens in their employ will have their business license suspended for a few weeks. The second offense will cause them to have the license revoked! Properly enforced, this should make a sizable dent in the flow of illegal job seekers crossing the border. So what's the problem???
According to Teepen's column today, we are going to punish the poor business owners who have been taking advantage of the illegals by paying them squat for years. No wait, we're going to punish the business owners for supporting law breakers who should, by LAW, be immediately deported. No...that can't be right. This... all... makes... sense. Maybe he wants us to ...oh heck I don't know what he wants. But he is predicting a huge gap in available workers...DUH!!
His first assertion is that people in the offices of Phoenix will be unwilling to go work in the fields. Yeah...but people making the minimum wage in a fast food restaurant might be excited to make some decent dough in the open air. But, he points out, AZ. has a low 3.3 employment rate. Well, Tom, other places ave high unempoymnt rates and willing workers looking for jobs When ICE raided the seven meat-packing plants and sent all the workers packing, LEGAL African immigrants moved into the towns and took the jobs. Hmmm....legal Americans gladly stepping into jobs vacated by illegal aliens. Imagine that! And they said it couldn't be done...
His next assertion is that Arizona's ecomomy will suffer under the lack of illegal workers making under the table wages that they then send home. Wait! What? Yes, I am serious. Then again, what I set out to say is that T. Teepen doesn't tell the whole truth. What will be missing as the illegals leave is the tremendous strain on Arizona's healthcare and school systems. Let's talk about that. While we're at it, let's discuss the wages that will be going into the tax base from legal workers. Hmm...sounds like a boost to the ecomomy to me. Not to mention, living wages for deserving workers. What's not to like, Tom?

1 comment:

Mr. Defend said...

Couldn't have said it better myself. When will these "full of crap liberals" see what this invasion of illegals is really doing to our country. I don't care if they think it's inhumane to send these people packing or not. I am more concerned for AMERICA and my children's future than I am a bunch of law breaking, social program leeches that have no intention of assimilating into the American society. I live in America, I speak english and I sure as hell am sick an tired of seeing billboards, newspaper ads and more especially government documents printed in spanish at the cost of the American taxpayer. These people are bringing America to it's knees.