Sooner Be Blue

Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants.

2007/6/17

Jobs that no American wants to do?

@ 06:41 AM (29 months, 21 days ago)
 
I guess there's no such thing as a competent Republican .. because the California GOP searched high and low and couldn’t find one. So they have to outsource from other nations.
 
It really is life imitating art .. looky here:
 
"The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions — state deputy political director — and has hired a Canadian for the job through a coveted H-1B visa, a program favored by Silicon Valley tech firms that is under fire for displacing skilled American workers."
 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/14/MNG3DQF4U11.DTL
 
Wait, it gets better -- Matthews was hired by Michael Kamburowski, the state GOP’s chief operations officer, who is .. wait for it .. an Australian citizen.
 
Is that funny or what? The immigration bill failed mostly because the top dog conservatives in Congress spoke out against Bush's guest worker program .. they saw it as basically granting amnesty.
 
Yet, when it comes to putting immigrants into high level positions in the GOP .. you don't hear a peep from them.
 
Well, when you stop and think about it, so many positions in the Bush administration are going empty because no one wants them .. there must be a limited pool of Americans to choose from .. so maybe they can come up with some sort of Bushie guest worker program to help fill them.
 
What does it say about the GOP that they import their hired guns? And just for the record, I don’t care who the California Republican Party hires. I’m sure these two guys are perfectly capable political professionals. It's the hypocrisy that's disgusting.
 
Of course, I’m guessing these guys are both white .. not that there’s anything wrong with that.
 
See, it’s not that Republicans don’t want immigrants taking American jobs -- it’s just that they don’t want "the non-Party-faithful" taking American jobs. The entire immigration mess would probably go away in a minute if the GOP could guarantee that only Republican immigrants were picking the strawberries …