He’s laughing all you working class schmucks who are so arrogant and audacious that you think that you should earn a good living doing things that new arrivals in mass could do for slave wages. That’s our Karl Rove-r-rated.
Mark Kirkorian in National Review Online:
According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.”
Last time I looked, most 17-year olds had relatively menial jobs. The key word is “had,” now that many of them are being squeezed out by the cheap labor express. He may not want his son picking tomatoes or making beds, but many more native-born Americans who have professions that are more worthy and substantial than that are also losing out to mass illegal (and legal) immigration, and the H-1-B visa glut.
The irony is that the immigration policies that Bush/Rove want will actually make it more likely that young people today can look forward to menial and low-paying careers, even in spite of education and intelligence levels or willingness to work that would have otherwise jettisoned them into the working middle class or higher easily.
Pray tell, Mr. Rove, who was making the beds in Vegas before it became a Mexican city?
