Congressman Tom Tancredo was on the Jim Bohannon Show recently discussing his new book In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and Security. During the discussion he made some very interesting statements. He mentioned that he felt Pr…

I know a lot of people like the ones you mentioned. Tons, but the trend I notice is primarily in younger people, which is what really worries me. Anyone over 30 does tend to be hard-working, but that seems to be the cut-off age. Most of the people who apply for jobs at my restaurant are under that age limit, usually mid-20’s. I’m also talking about suburbia here; these are people who’ve never seen the business end of a hoe and probably never will, and if they did, they’d be offended just by the idea of getting their hands dirty.

One more comment, though to VIDA..not meaning to pick on you lady, but

I am originally from Wisconsin. Nearly all my relatives still live there and I have a home there. I really have to challenge your comments on work ethic in the state. My own mother worked as a waitress up to the time she was in her early 70’s in order to supplement her meager social security. Granted, she was in good physical shape, but she did it because she didn’t want to be dependent on her kids or the “system” to pay her bills. My dad, now deceased, spent his working life on a loading dock and supported a family of 6 kids. I have farmers in my family who work from dawn to dusk and then some. Indeed, nearly everyone I know in the great State of Wisconsin puts in an honest days work for an honest days pay.

I know there are people in Wisconsin and all over the country who would rather sit on their butt than earn their living, but I must say this is not the norm anywhere in the country. We have one of the highest, if not the highest, productivity rates in the whole world. We don’t have guaranteed jobs. We don’t have 6 weeks vacation the first year on a job. We don’t have guaranteed medical benefits. We don’t have a free secondary education. We WORK for all these things and when we see what we have worked so hard for taken away from us and given to someone who is here illegally, we get very very upset.

And, now I’ll shut my trap on this issue.

Jake here, no accusation intended, nor offense taken. I am just generally curious, I can’t say I haven’t seen some of what your talking about and I can’t help but wonder if kids are starting their work lives perhaps as young as we did.

When I was nine I told my dad I wanted a certain bike, he told me in no uncertain terms that he would buy me the cheapest bike in the store and if I wanted a better one I better get a job. So I lied about my age and spent the summer caddying and on rain days I worked in the kitchen.

Anyway, you are right about one thing, it is somewhat different in a big city that is willing to admit to having over a half a million illegal aliens. I talk to a frightening number of people who have been forced out of most of the trades here. So it’s most certainly not “jobs Americans won’t do” considering they were doing them when they got fired to be replaced by illegals.

Your hate and hardened heart is as sickening as the rest of the S(Americans??)

May God judge you as too cheap to pay for Chemo for your wife’s mothers care back in Africa.

You are a hate filled person. My relative is an 80 year old Mother-in Law in need of Chemo Therapy.

May God judge between you and her.

Your hate and hardened heart is as sickening as the rest of the S

North Korea? Not scaring me (not yet anyway, maybe if they get some missiles that work, but not yet). Iran? Yeah, scary, definitely scary, but unlike N. Korea, they don’t have bombs OR missiles (yet). What scares me is what…

If you want to accuse me of being a racist, you should point to my posted statements that so indicate. I’ll wait patiently while you attempt to do so, and I’ll be happy to accept your apology when you fail.

Your last statement was perhaps the least lucid, indicating that only obsessed zealots want the law followed and refuse to compromise with lawbreakers or with those who condone lawbreaking.

Seems to me that you have a few issues to work out before you begin accusing people of being zealots, racists, etc.

Laws establish the minimum behavioral standards a particular society will accept. Religion, on the other hand, establishes ideal behaviors for people to aspire to. Having either standard as the single standard for a society is impractical – either you have a religious standard that has standards that virtually no one an attain(the Taliban,eg), or you have legal standards that find any behavior acceptable unless there’s a law against it. Have you any idea how many laws people would want in force to make society liveable? Do you _really_ want to live in that kind of society?

RedBeard I am not a Liberal. What I am is a rocked ribbed, hard core, Christian conservative. Someone who supported Reagan over Ford, someone most closely related to the Goldwater wing of the Republican party. Only they are not reliably conservative enough for me to consider calling myself a Republican. The enforcement only crowd is rife with bigots and racists. When someone like me who has been called every name in the book for holding fast to my principled conservative views says you sound like racists, it’s because you sound like racists. If the Republican party and conservative in general do not put distance between themselves and the racists that have infiltrated the conservative movement. What took 50 years to build will come crashing down in just a few years. I don’t want that to happen I want the racists out. There is room for compromise on the issue of immigration. If you find yourself unable to compromise then you are an obsessed zealot who I want driven out of the conservative movement.

1. Obviously, immigration laws are weak and even the ones we have are not enforced.

2. Hiring “legally” is incredibly expensive – not necessarily because of wages, but because of taxes and entitlements – you’ve got FICA, unemployment, disability, workman’s comp, vacation and sick time, FLMA, health care, profit sharing, retirement, the costs of paperwork and filing, etc. etc. How can it NOT be tempting to hire an illegal and avoid all that? The government has made having legal employees costly and burdensome.

3. Welfare – why WOULD people work hard at entry level jobs when they can sit on their able-bodied behinds and watch their big screen TVs? And no, I’m not stereotyping, I have several in-laws who are on disability or unemployment doing just that.
If they didn’t have this choice, they WOULD do jobs that they WON’T do now.