Most disturbing right now, a Immigration Bill, more on that in a moment.
Most everything the Republicans have done in the past 5 years (since 2009) have been to three objectives.
1-Hold the line on any changes governing what big business wants. And they have made that so obvious even though they spin it a bit different. Hence the banking re-regulation that never happened.
2-Don’t let Obama Succeeded at anything. Hence if a new program or a good existing department of the government can make things right, they demonize it and cut the funding there-by making it ineffective.
3- Hold on to power by any means.
1st, let it be known constitutional speaking that the House of Representatives being the legislative body governing that which spends any money. All spending bills must start in the House. That is tremendous power by itself. Remember Iran-Contra scandal…. it was a line in a spending bill that made that covert action illegal. It was this line in a budget bill… “there shall be no funding for the Contras”. – O.K. you get the idea.
So why is a simple immigration bill made so difficult. It is a two sided issue about cheap labor. Yes, really this is the issue as I will explain.
Those company’s backing the Republicans are in southern agriculture states. Meaning cheap hands to harvest the fields in large numbers. They do not want to pay more for this labor that does not really meet any standards and is why nobody in the US will do that work for what is offered. Tricky ways to circumvent minimum wage and safety standards.
On the other side of the coin…
Those company’s backing the Democrats are technological and engineering in nature and want to allow cheap labor from India and others to work mostly in Silicon Vally and like areas. Yes they can offer these folks a $80 k a year job with lower benefits and they are the happiest workers in the world. Why do you think there were so many lay-offs in Silicon Valley. They were making $160 – $ 300 k a year and very nice benefits. They currently circumvent the immigration law by continuing to issue visas in a unlimited way.
I can’t see the difference between the two. Only to make one side legal makes the other virtually illegal.
Hence the debate.
Just by appearances though, the republicans are once again getting more egg on their face than the towel (spin) can soak up . And it is not looking good for them in the mid-term elections. We shall probably see more ways to limit the voter turn out of the lower classes once again to help them maintain their shrinking power.
So the argument continues by spinning it to whatever issues excite the base of each party and not the reality on the ground.
We the people loose again no matter who wins this issue. Cheap labor is what they want, cheap labor is what they will get.