Immigration Debate

OUTSOURCING THE NEWS— I read recently that a news organization will be outsourcing some of its news writing. Apparently its hiring some guy in India to watch city council meetings on TV and write up stories about the event. Pretty cleaver! Sounds rather like how some of the daily papers choose to cover local news—at a distance. Which is why we find that the daily papers and TV news that occasionally visit Valley Center usually focus on the negative news.

IMMIGRATION DEBATE— For years many critics of the Republican party have said it is too beholden to the big business interests and not beholden enough to the common people. Nowhere is this divide in the GOP more obvious than in the very bitter and divisive immigration “reform” issue. The National Review’s editorial board, which has taken a position against the proposed law, while the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has come out in favor of it. The National Review, of course, is the heart and soul of America’s conservative movement, while the WSJ is the rock ribbed supporter of big business. The NR editorial board has challenged the WSJ board to a debate on the subject, but the WSJ has declined. The dirty BIG secret about big business, and a lot of little business, is that they need cheap labor that they can pay at below minimum wage. When President Bush says that the immigrants “Do the jobs that Americans won’t do,” the truer statement would be “They do the jobs that Americans won’t do for slave wages. Raise the wages and Americans will do those jobs.”