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RUSH: One more thing here on illegal immigration. The New York Times has this today. ‘After aiding the bill on immigration, employers are now balking,\u2019 big business is balking at this. By the way, the business community, some employers are the ones who helped shape this, folks. They love the cheap labor. That\u2019s the Republican side of this politically. Whether it makes sense to you or not, that\u2019s why many Republicans, some, have supported this. But some of these employers, some of these big business types said yesterday ‘they\u2019re unhappy with the result because it would not cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.\u2019 Labor shortages? If there are labor shortages, it means that salaries ought to be skyrocketing. Labor shortages? This is one of the most bogus excuses I\u2019ve heard yet. Not labor shortages, cheap labor shortages. Cheap labor shortages is what they are talking about. Everybody that\u2019s studied economics seriously knows that labor costs are the largest cost a business has, and the more you can keep them down, the higher the profitability. And of course if you\u2019re a publicly traded company, then you\u2019ve got stock price to worry about, the shareholders. <\/p>\n

‘In addition, employers expressed alarm as they learned that the Senate bill would require them to check a government database to verify that all current and former employees — aliens and citizens alike — were eligible to work in the United States. The Senate begins debating the bill on Monday. Supporters, including the White House, had hoped that senators would finish work on it this week, before the Memorial Day recess. But leading members of Congress said Sunday that the bill would take more time and could face significant hurdles.\u2019 In fact the Washington Times has a story today on how few senators actually support this. ‘Fewer than 20 senators are publicly committed to supporting the immigration deal that hits the Senate floor today while nearly 40 are already opposed or have serious concerns, underscoring how difficult it will be for President Bush and his allies to craft a coalition that can pass the bill.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Senator Specter, one of the Republicans who helped craft the deal…\u2019 by the way, if I hear this one more time, I\u2019m going to blow a gasket. ‘Well, you know, good compromise makes everybody mad, and that means it\u2019s good.\u2019 Don\u2019t fall for that, folks. That\u2019s an old myth; that\u2019s an old wives tale that\u2019s always accompanied anything controversial. ‘Well, if it makes everybody mad, must be really, really good, must be on the right track.\u2019 The track record of stuff that\u2019s really, really bad never goes anywhere. It may be thought to be good, but it never gets passed or very rarely does. And I don\u2019t think this is. I don\u2019t think this thing has a snowball\u2019s chance. By the time this gets over to the House, you\u2019ve got a lot of congressmen over there who want to get reelected in November of \u201908, and they understand full well that they won\u2019t be reelected. I don\u2019t care what Pelosi said about it. Pelosi said it\u2019s not family friendly enough. Screw that. This is just strategic posturing on her part. That\u2019s just to make it look like that the bill\u2019s not as radically oriented toward the left as it is. You get one of the most radical leftists in government opposing it on some basis, ‘Well, can\u2019t be that bad, Rush, not even Pelosi…\u2019 That\u2019s just strategic posturing. The same thing when Dingy Harry gets on board here. It\u2019s the same thing. It\u2019s like when you know a piece of legislation is going to fail but you need to vote for it to help yourself get reelected. Pelosi, she\u2019s got the comfort here of being able to rip the bill because it probably isn\u2019t going to go very far. We\u2019ll see. Pressure is going to have to be kept up on it. <\/p>\n

‘The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said that the immigration bill ‘can\u2019t possibly be completed before Memorial Day.\u2019 On the ABC News program ‘This Week,\u2019 Mr. McConnell said the Senate would need at least two weeks to digest and amend the bill, which he described as ‘a big, complicated piece of legislation.” That\u2019s going to drive McCain crazy. (Doing McCain impression) ‘Debate! There\u2019s no debate. That\u2019s just extracurricular politics. We\u2019re not going to have it, you understand? F you!\u2019 Well, how about that meltdown? Can you see McCain talking to Kim Jong Il? (Laughing.) ‘A delay over Memorial Day would give the public an opportunity to weigh the issue, while lawmakers are home, and would give critics more time to hone their arguments. The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, expressed concern on Sunday about a central element of the bill, under which the government would establish a point system to evaluate would-be immigrants, giving more weight to job skills and education and less to family ties.\u2019 I love it when I hear liberal Democrats like Pelosi worrying about family values. Sorry, just doesn\u2019t have any substance to it. <\/p>\n

I know they\u2019re saying that in agriculture, labor shortages, according to news stories say that fruits and vegetables are rotting. They can\u2019t be harvested. Look, well, you tell me, I was in LA over the weekend, and I went to dinner on Saturday night, and we had some vegetables, and they didn\u2019t say there was a shortage. They didn\u2019t say, ‘Well, the spinach, no, we don\u2019t have it, it\u2019s rotting out there because of labor shortage.\u2019 At breakfast some guys were having fruit. Seemed to be beaucoup fruit, this is southern California. I haven\u2019t seen any shortages. Have you seen pictures of these veggies and fruits rotting on the vine? Have you seen pictures? I haven\u2019t, either. All I know is that whenever I want them, I\u2019m able to get them, and I don\u2019t eat fruit. Can\u2019t stand fruit. But I\u2019ve seen people that order it and eat it and haven\u2019t had any problem with it. Haven\u2019t seen any signs, ‘Warning, no fruit for breakfast today at Denny\u2019s; there\u2019s a labor shortage in the illegal alien ranks, and there\u2019s rotting out there.\u2019 I haven\u2019t seen this. Pelosi said — I don\u2019t care what Pelosi said. Anyway, big labor is all upset here about the labor shortage. Plus, they\u2019re going to have to go out and do the checking themselves. This is what they don\u2019t want, this responsibility. They don\u2019t want it. We need cheap unskilled labor, we just do. <\/p>\n

Folks, I\u2019m just going to tell you something. If cheap unskilled labor is what this country needs to continue to be the major player in the world that it is, if cheap unskilled labor is precisely the key to continued prosperity and economic growth and the maintenance of our superpower status, then Mexico ought to be right behind us, because they lead the world in it. Every nation that has cheap, unskilled labor ought to be threatening our status as world superpower. I\u2019ve never heard anything more absurd. I have never heard anything more insulting, that without cheap labor, we can\u2019t survive as we have always known the United States to be.<\/p>\n

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