From: "Mark" 

Sounds about right to me, except I'd re-order the list with 2. first. and add a 4th:

They are afraid to fix Social Security, so want a bunch more bodies paying
into the system so they can ignore it until whatever time they get tired of
working 3 days a week for a few hours a day for about 8 months a year and
retire on their separate pension system. 



"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> Republicans who are for this are motivated by two or three principal
> reasons.
>
> 1.  The lobbyists for big business and corporate agri-business and the
> Chamber of Commerce representing medium and small sized businesses in
> industries like construction, all of whom give these Congress critters
> LOTS OF MONEY want the unlimited workers portions of the bill.
>
> 2.  They are fools and incompetent idiots.
>
> 3.  They think if they are not for this bill they will lose the hispanic
> vote.
>
> Democrats are for it because these illegals represent another *victim*
> group that they can buy votes from and get to vote illegally (and that's
> not even counting the additional votes from dead illegal aliens).
>
> Gary
>
> John Beckett wrote:
>> Gary Britt  wrote in message
>> news::
>>> They don't listen because they are either incompetent or corrupt
>>> sellouts. I just got an email from one of my two senators attempting to
>>> justify his work on actively supporting this bill and trying to lie me
>>> into believing he and this bill are conservative and OK.
>>
>> What is the motivation for these politicians to support the immigration
>> reform that you (and zillions of others, apparently) don't like?
>>
>> I suppose some percentage of motivation for a few politicians would be a
>> feeling of behaving decently. I like that argument, but I've got pretty
>> fatalistic about stuff like this - you have to draw the line somewhere at
>> who you're going to help in the world.
>>
>> New immigrants are a source of cheap labour (but illegals would be even
>> cheaper, so I don't quite follow).
>>
>> I'm seriously wondering - what is motivating the Republicans on this?
>>
>> John
>>

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