Subject: Are democrats in a Suicide Pact with Bush?

Mr. Bob Tuke, Tennessee Democratic Party, Nashville

Hi Mr. Tuke,

I heard Harry Reid on immigration, and I heard the joshing remarks of Hillary Clinton, and I heard
the call of Howard Dean to Bush requesting he denounce the immigration enforcement bill in Congress. 
This is insane.  Truly insane.  I've been a Democrat for 42 years and am furious with the so-called 
"national leadership" of the Party.

Why are the leading elitists of the Democratic Party willing to screw the working poor Americans 
in this country, in concert with corrupt Big Business interests, fat cat Republican idealogues, 
and unions trolling for membership from illegal aliens?

I already swore I wouldn't contribute any more money to the Democratic Party after the elites 
shafted Paul Hackett in Ohio.  I gave several thousand bucks last year to Democrats, many of them 
Iraqi vets who could speak with some authority on ending the Iraq fiasco.  Now my neighbors in 
this rural county, and the young kids growing up and going to school and entering the lower levels 
of the job market are being displaced and replaced by illegal Mexican border-jumpers.

Wages have been driven down in agriculture, in hotels, in construction, in factories, and even among 
computer programmers in this country on account of cheap labor imported or outsourced.  The buying 
power of the working poor, and the lower half of the entire wage spectrum, is being destroyed by a 
human tidal wave of illegals invading this country. 

Why can't the US be a society and a nation again, rather than a hothouse for Big Business's desire 
for cheap labor?  We are more than economy, and the people are more than cogs in some economic machine.

Any party that refuses to acknowledge overpopulation, that refuses to support its citizens needs for work 
and income, that turns away from the people who made the Democratic Party a winner for 40 years, 
that turns away from the very people who Bush cultivated with God/guns/gays issues, that refuses to 
hammer Bush hard - is a Party that doesn't deserve support. 

I'm a retired economist and here are some of the good reasons to call a halt to immigration and 
close the borders for a few years, while we sort out just exactly we DO want to do:

1. Uncontrolled mass immigration has halted experimentation and technological innovation in the US workplace.  
We are substituting cheap labor for technical innovation that could multiply the efforts of American workers 
and older workers in many fields including hotel services and agriculture.

2. Uncontrolled mass immigration costs billions for our school systems, healthcare systems, 
and law enforcement and court systems.  Latino gang violence is a huge problem today.

3. Uncontrolled mass immigration introduces an entire population of residents who are not woven
into the language, culture, history, and values of the United States. 

4. Uncontrolled mass immigration harms some 150 million Americans in the lower wage groups 
by depressing wages, making workers fearful, and lowering living standards.

5. Uncontrolled mass immigration is causing grotesque overpopulation in the United States, 
crowding of cities and highways, increased demand for Arab oil, and political corruption.

I don't know what you can do about this, but now's the time to do it.

Sincerely,

Don the Day Trader
Columbia, Tennessee

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