Comments on: Wittman Endorses Easier H-2B Visa Rules

By: Che'

Che' — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:39:24 +0000

He don’t get out much, do he? Does anyone else hear banjo music playing?

By: CONVA

CONVA — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:21:18 +0000

Sara:28 May @ 9:41 pm
“small but vocal minority”???
Thsi “small but vocal minority” torpedoed the first amnesty bill put forth by the Bush administration coupled with McCain and hid cohorts in congress. I personnaly am against any further immigration until we get our house on order. I could care less whether I am called racist, a bigot or what ever. If that makes the bleeding hearts feel good so be it.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:41:47 +0000

I’m a citizen, and as far as I can tell, you lot are a small, but vocal minority. Most Americans do not reflect the anti-immigrant racism that is promoted on this site. You all need to get out of Manassas more often–I think Greg got a wake-up call last week at the Immigration Forum at GMU–outside the bubble he (and you all) don’t have much of an audience, or support.

By: monticup

monticup — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:45:53 +0000

Sara: The way we regulate immigration doesn’t have to be fair. Life isn’t fair. We need to regulate immigration the way the CITIZENS want, not the way Juan Hernandez or Calderon want. It’s not up to the Mexicans or Central Americans. They may not like our decisions so they need to focus on their own countries and stop feeding off the US.

By: AWCheney

AWCheney — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:47:00 +0000

Given that we are already standing on the abyss, Sara, it would seem prudent to resolve the issue of the enormous numbers of ILLEGAL labor already present in our country before we consider any reforms to immigration. We can’t seem to enforce the laws we already have…don’t you think THAT would be the first step before we change them?

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:40:35 +0000

Okay, what’s the problem with regulating LEGAL immigration? I though you and your readers were perfectly happy to have legal immigrants in the country. This is a way to do it fairly and legally.

By: AWCheney

AWCheney — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:30:33 +0000

Anonymous said on 27 May 2008 at 12:00 pm:
“Yes you sure are supporting free enterprise. Let’s just artificially inflate wages rather than allow Latinos to enter the country.”

You’re not very up on economics, are you Anonymous? Inflation of both wages and prices is created by a number of factors, INCLUDING THE SINKING DOLLAR. When a dollar has less value, it’s supposed to be able to buy less, including labor. What we have going on here is the artificial DEFLATION of wages by the presence of millions upon millions of illegal workers in our country. Why do you think Bush is such a big fan of amnesty? It’s a good way to hide the effects of an ever burgeoning debt from the average citizen (kind of like building taxes into products, like gas, hides the actual cost of the product…it’s called “value added tax”).

What people better start to realize is that, if the artificial stop-gap measures continue long enough, the bubble will burst (like the real estate bubble, and the ecommerce bubble before that) and we could be facing an economic disaster similar to that which occurred in Germany prior to WWII…when it was cheaper to burn money for fuel than it was to burn wood.

By: Timothy Watson

Timothy Watson — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:02:15 +0000

Wittman gets tons of money from agricultural and fishery/seafood businesses. Both of which he stated would be helped by more H-2B visas.

By: CONVA

CONVA — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:55:33 +0000

Whittman just lost my vote. The more the current field of RINO’s open their mouths, the more they disgust me. It is going to be hard going to the polls and not selecting one republican, but I will go and submit an empty ballot.

By: monticup

monticup — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:11:22 +0000

Anonymous–reread your post. It really is nonsensical.

By: monticup

monticup — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:09:21 +0000

Anonymous–you have a point, I may be what you call “anti-immigrant”.

I call it smart immigration. WE decide who is allowed to immigrate here based on what skills they have to offer and whether or not they will enhance our country or be a drain on our society.

The massive population transfer of the lowest strata of society from Mexico and Central America to the US has not been good for us. No country, no matter how great and generous, can be expected to absorb such a large number of illiterate, uneducated and possibly uneducable people.

The illegal alien is the most inefficient economic unit and becomes a parasite on the larger society.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:00:54 +0000

Yes you sure are supporting free enterprise. Let’s just artificially inflate wages rather than allow Latinos to enter the country. While we’re at it let’s raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Well, at least an independent isn’t dictating policy.

So, from this I can reasonably conclude you are anti-illegal immigration but simply anti-immigrant.

By: monticup

monticup — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:45:54 +0000

The question is, who is buttering Wittman’s bread? Sounds like he’s being “bribed”. Vote him out.

By: Timothy Watson

Timothy Watson — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:03:29 +0000

H.R. 1843 would increase the number of H-2B visa by 300% according to NumbersUSA.

Wittman supports H.R. 1843 so much, that not only is he one of the 151 co-sponsors, but he is also one of only 31 people that have signed the discharge petition to get the bill out of committee.

http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/legislation_proposed110.html

By: AWCheney

AWCheney — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:27:54 +0000

So, I take it that this guy is another “Bush” Republican, huh? I guess next he’ll be supporting another round of amnesty.