a light bulb finally went off in somebody’s head. Will wonders never cease?
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No light bulbs. The close approach of an election always increases the amount of populist theater politicians will engage in.

The last time I checked, most government contracted jobs were on the upper pay scale, ie jobs that legal Americans would do——-perhaps the 49,000 that failed to enter the job market last month, (thanks to minimum wage increases) might consider applying for these jobs?

Not all of them….janitorial services are often contracted (they are at my federal office) and that’s where you are probably most likely to find your illegals.

maverick muse on June 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM

That’s an interesting point about the system’s inability to tell us about a perfect MATCH to a name, not just somebody’s valid number. The way I figure it, if we’ve got 300 million people in this country and, with the full spectrum of 9 digits used, essentially 1 billion possibilities for SSNs, then an illegal has a 30% chance of scoring. That’s way too high of a chance for my tastes.

Are their chances just 30%? What happens to the SSN of someone who dies? Is it still valid in this e-Verify system?

“The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments by business groups and Hispanic activists that only the federal government can regulate whether employers can hire people not in this country legally. More to the point, they contend only the federal government can mete out punishment.”

beatcanvas on June 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM

“Enemies foreign and domestic”

I’m convinced that the Arab heads of state were covertly instructed that if another incident occured, that as President of the United States, Bush would leave no evidence that their capitals ever existed.
maverick muse on June 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM

Truer words may have been the unspoken doctrine of the Bush Administration. And this is one “big stick” that McCain will insist be passed into his hands.

“The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments by business groups and Hispanic activists that only the federal government can regulate whether employers can hire people not in this country legally. More to the point, they contend only the federal government can mete out punishment.”

He could have done this years ago but pandered to the illegal alien community, the the Latino community of which I’m part, but the illegals.

The bounty could be say, $5000.00 per head and paid for by the fine imposed on said employer.

Because he is leaving soon, and he OWED his conservative donors something, a hell of a lot more domestically than he accomplished for his RINO donors with all of the top heavy bureaucracy he has newly laden upon us with acts of citizen submission, particularly submitting to the very illegals the present show is meant to hide.

To conclude the balancing act for the record, GO BUSH for staying the course in Iraq, the most successful US war effort since WWII, despite the enemy homefront from the DNCMSM. And GO BUSH for preventing another 9-11 on your watch. I’m convinced that the Arab heads of state were covertly instructed that if another incident occured, that as President of the United States, Bush would leave no evidence that their capitals ever existed. Nothing like talking softly behind closed quarters while you own the big stick.

Meanwhile, Chertoff has done NOTHING to link e-verify with other internet searches since e-verify can only verify whether a social-security-number is a fraudulent number, not if the person using the number is the real person assigned to that number. Again, Chertoff and Bush deserve criticism for so little so late in their game of Homeland Security. So where is the internet source for employers to verify whether a person is a citizen or NOT?! Build the fence while you pull your thumbs out of your NAFTA *ss and share some of that compassionate conservatism with tax paying citizens in preference to Mexicans. You know that all of Mexico’s businesses and profits belong to a very small elite “aristocracy” that NAFTA is designed to pay off. BUT FOR WHAT! For forcing the US to play big greengo sucker brother in Mexican’s hate/hate relationship with us? So all the Mexican aristocracy sucks every American dollar from NAFTA while the Mexican government officially sends all the Mexican poor who are willing to go on illegal missions to America to illegally take work and benefits from our citizens.

Whatever homes are “left vacant” from illegal residents runnoft, the neighbors breath a sigh of relief until gangs use the property if neighborhood watches aren’t alert.

But really, as per saying that it’s the illegal population deserting Arizona leaving properties vacant, that’s rich! “It’s the economy, stupid.” Let the bubble pop so that we can get on with life rid of the inflation shackles of high prices beyond what wages can afford. A lot of us have been waiting for prices to fall so that we can select whether a property is worth purchasing finally, considering the hazards of our future. Arizona and California have their real estate woes having inflated their real estate prices beyond reality — beyond water availability to sustain heavy populations. So now CA is imposing a 20-year water availability before allowing FURTHER development? Arizona already has dropped its ground water levels beyond reason to water lawns and keep the Fountain Hills type man-made geisers evaporating mid-air.

Off on tangent, as per water and fuel resources, it is high time to eliminate gas hog boats from the lakes before crimping what’s allowed on highways! Water supplies are for sustaining life preservation, and water ski or non-regulated boat racing is not an entertainment protected by anything other than their own lobby. Fishing boats, swimming, paddling, and sailing would be so much more enjoyable and civility on the waters would probably return if petroleum powered speed boats were forced off 90% of the public waters that in turn would be that much less polluted from petroleum products. Also if fuel is so limited, why splurge it on lake entertainment when there’s not enough fuel to get Americans to and from WORK?

It all comes back to more population than legitimately belongs in our country, and the problems illegal aliens bring with them, including contagious deadly diseases along with their horrible drug trade, not to mention their plague on our tax dollars while NAFTA pads the lifestyle of the Mexican aristocracy south of the border even as Mexican crops poison Americans certified organic by their *ss.

What can we expect next? Some other brainiac in the government figuring out it would be a good idea to pass legislation allowing for domestic oil drilling in ANWR and the gulf? Building more refineries? Jump-starting construction of new nuclear power plants? Building a border fence?

Nah. Congress needs to spend more time dragging McClellan in before an investigative committee hearing to verify Bush lied and people died. Yeh, that’s important!

Priority #1: Getting Re-Elected
Priority #2: Raising Campaign Money
Priority #3: Grandstanding

Priority #1006: Answering to John Q. Public

However, the federal government has a long history of imposing hiring rules on federal contractors, most of which the ACLU cheered rather than jeered.

The ACLU can cry me a river. The Presidency has used Executive Orders to affect domestic policy at least as far back as FDR.

Now extend it to the private sector.

Good start. Now build a frickin’ fence!!

Tim Zank on June 10, 2008 at 8:48 AM

Maybe we can get the illegals to build it. They’re supposed to be doing the work that Americans won’t.