Rule of law resolution works; don’t end it
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Robert T. Molleur
Published: April 28, 2008
Woodbridge Supervisor Frank Principi wants to kill the “Rule of Law” resolution under the guise of compassion and tolerance, in order to maintain a cadre of slave labor for the business community and to create a steady stream of “victims” the liberal empathy machine can consistently respond to.
It’s no different than Police Chief Charles Deane’s request for cameras in police cars, a budgetary ruse meant to directly impede or eventually kill the resolution.
In most jurisdictions cameras in police cars are as an integral component as drive shafts, pistons and connecting rods.
If Supervisors Frank Principi, Maureen Caddigan, Martin Nohe and John Jenkins were truly concerned with law and order and the equitable application thereof of our laws for all residents, they should be questioning Chief Deane’s leadership instead of smearing those that seek the truth about the trickery behind this budget item.
In the end, the wrath the resolution is causing to those on the left and local news media means only one thing to me — the resolution is working and Prince William County is becoming a better place for it.
As the exodus of illegal aliens from Prince William County continues to nearby sanctuary jurisdictions and burdens their public resources, it’s only a matter of time before they contact us for a copy of the resolution for themselves.
ROBERT T. MOLLEUR
Manassas
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on April 30, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Ray,
It sounds like we are in agreement on this issue. The point I am attempting to make is that the current policies of PWC, driven by Cory Stewart and his unelected nativist advisor Greg Letiecq, is effectively driving immigrants, legal or illegal, further underground and making it more difficult for them to earne fair wages and decent labor treatment. Stewart’s tactics are playing directly into the hands of homeowners who don’t want to pay fair prices for quality services, while simultaneousy allowing many of those same homeowners to claim they are “taking a stand” against “Illegal Imigration.“
I agree that the anti-Illegals SHOULD work to ensure fair labor practices for all workers, but they’re not and they won’t. It’s just more fun beating up on people who can’t defend themselves.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on April 30, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Ron, my point being that we are a Nation of people that think “we” should earn top pay and benefits from our employer, but “we” should have the right to purchase from those earning the lowest pay and no bennies. As supply and demand will always require low pay/no bennies jobs, I agree a national health care program is the only solution. Businesses continued to get ‘blamed’ for hiring illegals when, from my perspective in the home improvement field, it is the homeowner shopping for low price that drives businesses to reduce cost in any way possible to be competitive. The Anti Illegals should work as hard to insure every full-time employee has proper benefits AND thus be willing to PAY MORE as a consumer to cover the costs. Most businesses do not hire illegals to ‘make more money’ but to be able to offer lower prices to the penny-pincher consumer. But people, by nature, hate it when you tell them they are part of the problem. So much easier to blame the intangible ‘other guy’.
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on April 30, 2008 at 10:17 am
Ray,
I happen to work for a company that makes a four-year college degree minimum requirements for employment (pretty much excludes hiring “illegals”). I have owned my own businesses in the past and was faced with decisions on paying for help. I make Wal*Mart my last choice in any buying decision because of their labor practices, and becuase of the way they structure their buying to essentially force suppliers to have products manufactured in overseas sweatshops.
I am willing to pay a quarter more so people have health care. Better yet, I support politicians who want America to have a national healthcare policy, as does every other industrialized nation and many third world nations. With a national healtcare policy, private employers would not have to wrestle with decisions on what level of benefits they needed to provide.
I was also living in Mississippi during and after hurricane Katrina. I saw firsthand how the local casinos used imported “Illegal Immigrants” as a lever to force the construction unions to reduce union pay and benefits demands.
In any discussion, the person yelling the loudest is usually the most wrong. I think anyone following this thread knows who is now yelling the loudest.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on April 29, 2008 at 6:38 pm
And, one final post. Raise your hand if you own a business or have a high-ranking VP or CFO type of position within your company that makes you privy to corporate decisions regarding employees and company strategy. If you hold a drone(look it up) position, what makes you qualified to comment on hiring practices of other companies? If you had the answers, you would not be working for someone else making them rich while you troll along.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on April 29, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Also, I really feel bad for all you guys that work for Corporate America and are treated as nothing more than legal mules. It must be horrible to work for someone that does not respect you. Oh, what’s that? Your company DOES respect you? They feel you contribute something of VALUE back for what they pay you? Then why do you keep saying companies hire illegals to “make more money”? If your company can make money on your salary, then why can’t any company make money on hiring legal people and paying full benefits? I know most of you guys aren’t rocket scientists but your 2+2 just doesn’t add up. Again, typing REAL SLOW, companies make money on productive workers and productive workers are often experienced, skilled workers. How does one save money hiring a day labor off the street?????
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on April 29, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Ron and Gary, it is so hard to make a point to those with closed minds. I can drive anything I want, buy anything I want and I DON’T SHOP AT WAL*MART. I try to shop where employees have benefits. Now I’ll type REAL SLOW for the think-minded people. PEOPLE WITHOUT BENEFITS ARE A DRAIN ON SOCIETY. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THEY ARE LEGAL, ILLEGAL OR AMERICAN. No Bennies, no health care and you got folks standing in line in the Emergency Room. I’ll ask differently: Who is willing to pay a quarter more for a burger so Fast Food workers have health insurance? A quarter more for toilet paper so Low*Price workers have health care? GET THE POINT YET? WE, yes WE, demand low prices for stores to get our business, then complain when we have to carry their employees on our backs. As they say “pay me now or pay me later”. It all gets paid in the end.
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on April 29, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I find it ironic that Conservative claim Liberals are the ones demanding “slave labor.“ The Republican mantra is quite simply “Cheap Labor.“ The whole issues of “illegal Immigration” comes down to Big Business wanting cheap labor to help break unions, force “legal labor” to take wage and benefits cuts and not complain at being forced to work in conditions violating OSHA and other government regulations.
Cory Stewart’s tactics are all about pushing our immigrant population further underground to help support “Cheap Labor.“
The immigration reform act with “Guest Worker Program” that Pres Bush endorsed last year, supported by the coporate wing of the republican party and panned by the nativist wing, was all about cheap labor. By bringing in people on a temporary “Guest Worker” basis tied directly to the good graces of their employers (workers who could be immediately deported for complaining about ANY labor abuse) Bush/Corporatists hoped to create a large pool of cheap “slave labor.“
Republicans owned Congress for four years while owning the White House, and yet nothing was done about immigration. Conservatives can scream, rant, rave, and mis-represent statistics all they please; Republicans are supporting the present immigration policies.
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Posted by ( Godsaveus ) on April 29, 2008 at 11:33 am
raywilliams.First there is no job that Americans or legal immigrants can or are not willing to do, i.e.- I did work as dishwasher in a restaurant like many others before the wave of illegal immigrants came here and depress de wages by employers hiring undocumented. Slave labor exist for the EMPLOYERS willing to hire illegal immigrants regardless this practice is against the law in order to make more PROFITS, knowing that authorities do nor enforce any law. I do not drive a BMW or neither Cadillac nor I have a prosperous lifestile but I have a decent life. I do think you are more worry about how much do you will have to pay for good or services if employers hire only illegal immigrants or how much will cost to mow your grass or your dinner in a restaurant, other than support enforce of the rule of law.
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Posted by ( Grant Gary Jacobsen ) on April 29, 2008 at 9:54 am
“Cadre of slave labor”? Oh please.
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Posted by ( Dime ) on April 29, 2008 at 8:50 am
Ray,
Illegal’s are the only people willing to do the jobs we don’t want to do. I call BS on you. Those tyess of jobs have been around for a long time and some how those jobs got done. The USA does not need illegals. There is plenty of people who want to come to the USA and are willing to do it the right way. Legally !!!!
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