Reply #125: Why call them "undocumented workers"? [View All]

[UdoKier]

Their presence in the United States is ILLEGAL. They entered illegally. They may very well HAVE some documents, but none that entitle them to live or work in the US.

"We used to think that free trade would solve problems like Mexico, but now we are no longer so sure, are we? Perhaps in the long run, but that is cold comfort to the working poor of today. "

Maybe the DLC Clintonoid republicrats did. Labor democrats NEVER did, they still do not, and they are correct. It is a race to the bottom, and the Democratic party made the worst mistake ever by jumping on that bandwagon.


"Also, it would be nice if Democrats hadn't lost most interest in the issues surrounding poverty, housing, the working class, and the working poor."

Democratic politicians, maybe. Not those of us who work for a living. We get lip service, and zero action.

" Hate to say it, but LBJ seemed to be the last president to really try to address these problems."

True.

" And the Democrats of today seem to think that Clinton's stab at welfare reform solved all the problems."

Again, maybe media whores and politicians - wealthy intellectuals. The rank and file never thought that.

" Sometimes I wonder if the "What's the Matter with Kansas" type of phenomena are truly based on the Republican values thing or if they feel abandoned by us."

You wonder? Working people clearly have been abandoned by the party much of the time. And democrats are so easily suckered into the GOP & the media's silly wedge issue debates that working people's issues are always swept under the rug. I don't blame the democrats entirely on this, since the media has a de facto blackout on this sort of topic now. The only solution I can think of is for democrats to boycott the corporate media, or when they do appear, CONSISTENTLY talk about only working/poor people's issues, no matter what the media whores want to talk about. Use every second they can on C-SPAN to pound away at the message that we are the party to help lift up the working man and keep the middle class afloat.

I don't mean to seem confrontational, but as a person struggling to raise a family on a low income, I do get frustrated with democrats who put things like abortion access or gay marriage above LIFE-AND-DEATH issues like the minimum wage, health care for the working poor, etc. If you live comfortably, it may be easy to not realize it, but the fact that the minimum wage has been stuck at 5.50/hr. for a decade has undoubtedly contributed to people's DEATHS. and the lack of health care for working people has certainly been DIRECTLY responsible for even more unnecessary deaths.