Big lie by Isakson (R-Pluto) on C-Span, WashJ.

[Cassandra]

In response to a caller, he said that we are at "full employment" so any jobs illegal immigrants take are obviously ones that there aren't enough Americans available to do. This is the main reason the repukes are not extending unemployment coverage (other than just being shitty). They want people to fall off the rolls of the unemployed, which is now estimated to be closer to 12%.

Now he's claiming that he doesn't know anything about the hostility of Republicans to unions. :eyes:

[Sammy Pepys]

1. 12%?

Where's that number from?

[Cassandra]

5. A linked MSN Money article that someone here pointed to...

a couple of weeks ago.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P146055.asp?Rating=10&PageID=146055#Rating

"Jobs data don't count the down-and-out
Williams starts by discussing the headline economic data: "Real unemployment right now -- figured the way that the average person thinks of unemployment, meaning figured the way it was estimated back during the Great Depression -- is running about 12%. Real CPI right now is running at about 8%. And the real GDP probably is in contraction." (By "real," he means calculating the data the way they used to be calculated, not as inflation-adjusted.)

He then explains how the employment data are compiled, noting that 5 million chronically unemployed people are not included in the statistics. In fact, there are seven or eight different employment statistics. One called U-3 is the official one. The broadest one, U-6, currently shows unemployment as running around 8.4%. As he explains, the one that's the most historically consistent is running around 12%. "

Linked article:
http://www.weedenco.com/welling/lilogo.asp

[Sammy Pepys]

7. Thanks...n/t

...

[bunkerbuster1]

2. How can you tell if Johnny I-suck-some is lying?

well, you know the answer.

This turdlet actually thinks a flat income tax is "fair," and that the answer to our energy problems is to drill in ANWR.

(and yes, he's my "Senator.")

[shenmue]

3. Wow...

there's nobody out of a job? What did he smoke this morning?

[FormerDittoHead]

4. How did you know the Republican was lying? Was he talking?

"Catching" Republicans in lies is like trying to find the colored stick in a big box of crayons.

[CottonBear]

6. I cannot express my disgust with "my" senator, Johnny Boy Isakson(R-Pluto)

My husband FINALLY got a full time job (he had been temporary full time and was waiting for a permanent position to open up) with benefits at one of Georgia's universities only after THREE illegal aliens with fake SS #s were fired after it was discovered that their documents were fake.

They were very nice men and hard working with families and I understand why they wanted to come work here because they couldn't get good work in Mexico. My husband's boss saw one of their kids at a gas station a few weeks later and asked about the father. The daughter said he already had another job because he got a new SS #!

My husband had been laid off of a previous job with full benefits with a private company (after almost 5 years of employment) because his wages and benefits had increased due to senority and the owner could hire two new people and pay them both what he had been paying my husband.

If the State of Georgia can find out that documents are fake then so can private employers. :grr:

[DrGonzoLives]

8. Everything Isakson says is horseshit

Why should this be any different?

[doc03]

9. "We need to get rid of these artificial wage mandates

imposed on us from Washington". When I heard that statement my blood pressure went up 50 points. Translation, that F---ing Republican piece of shit wants to get rid of the artificial high wage mandate (minimum wage) so we can pay Americans less. Isn't the minimum wage still $5.25 an hour? Another thing Americans won't work in the carpet industry we need the illegals to do those jobs. Well I am a Union member and remember reading a few years ago about them shutting down all the Union textile factories in the south. Another industry that was Unionized and made a decent wage were the meat processing plants. I remember reading how they would just pull up the plant and move it to another area. They would go to another community and ask for tax breaks and promise them all these jobs to set up their operation. Then the plant would open and they would pay low wages that nobody was willing to work for except an illegal immigrant. Remember about 15 years ago when all those people burned to death in the chicken processing plant in one of those shit hole Right-to-Work states in the south, they had the doors locked from the outside and nobody could get out.