Thread: Reform must include guest worker program S.D.U.T. EDITORIAL

San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial

Price of leadership / Reform must include guest worker program

Friday, December 18, 2009 at midnight

In the immigration debate, most of the sound and fury is aimed at the notion of “amnestyâ€

We can't get the millions of ILLEGAL aliens who are to leave.

What makes anyone think the guest workers will ever leave once we let them come here?

Outrageous concept indeed!

Imagine the government helping U.S. workers be less productive and hardworking by telling them they don’t have to compete with anyone who has a visa. Why should U.S. citizens get a benefit not from something they had nothing to do with, such as where they were born? If a job is available, U.S. workers should compete for it like anyone else, and not have it handed to them as an entitlement.

I assume this editorial writer has never been to a job interview in their life. It needs to be a level playing field -- Americans competing against Americans for a position, not Americans competing with other Ameicans and everyone else in the world. Often the monetary consideration is first and foremost in the minds of many employers. And I suppose it is our fault as we do not wish to live with a few other families heaped into a small apartment and sleeping in shifts.
The US government helping US citizens is because the taxes these people have paid are now going to benefit them. That does not make a person quit trying to achieve at their employment. This editorial alone is bordering on a verbal treason against the American people that built this country.