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Stop blaming workers--the bosses made this mess
Immigrants come here because globalization took their jobs back there
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- TAKING CARE OF THE SMITHSONIAN
- LOBBYISTS RUSH TO GET W'S LAST FAVORS
- The political and the personal
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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The political and the personal
FREE POLITICAL ADVICE: If you're going to bash illegal immigrants as part of your presidential bid, you shouldn't hire any of them to do personal work for you.
CASE #1: Mitt Romney. A vociferous proponent of building a really big border fence to keep these devils out, the Mittster has now been caught not once, but twice, hiring a landscaping firm that uses illegal workers to tend the lawns, tennis court, etc. at his suburban mansion near Boston.
CASE #2: Tom Tancredo. This ferocious anti-immigrant crusader, who considers illegal workers the scourge of our country, hired a construction crew in 2001to build a 1000square foot entertainment room in his Colorado home. Apparently, Tom didn't notice that only two of the crew spoke English, nor did he express any curiosity about the legal status of those who toiled for him. Most turned out to be undocumented "aliens," as he likes to call them. As one of the men later said, Tancredo "doesn't want us here, but he'll take advantage of our sweat and our labor. It's just not right."