Howard "Lying Fuck" Fineman on Hardball...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

He just went off on a tangent about illegals and "the jobs Americans don't want to do."

Tweety interrupted him and said that "I see these guys all over my neighborhood, doing jobs that pay GOOD money...sheetrock, construction, painting...don't tell me about the low paying jobs. We know what's going on..."

Fineman got a shit-eating grin and sheepishly nodded his head.

:grr:

[AX10]

1. Tweets actually called him on that?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Interrupted him the minute he said...

...jobs Americans don't want to do."

He certainly did call him on it.

:patriot:

[faithnotgreed]

8. correct me if im wrong but it sounded like chris agreed with him

look at the statement chris made ... "we know whats going on"

they are so removed from reality i dont know how they find their way to work every day
maybe theyre plugged into tomtom

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. He wasn't agreeing with the "jobs Americans won't do" bit.

My suggestion is to look for the transcript when it appears tomorrow on MSNBC and read the comments in context of the overall conversation.

:patriot:

[faithnotgreed]

10. good to hear - thanks

[William Seger]

3. "the jobs Americans don't want to do."

"... for $2.00 an hour."

[BeatleBoot]

4. Exactly.

You hit the nail on the head.

Americans will do the work, but not at sub-poverty wages.

[bullimiami]

5. doing jobs that would pay good money if you werent illegal.

they can pay those guys a lot less, under the table, no taxes, no insurance, no liabilities.

[OneTwentyoNine]

6. What??? I thought all they did was pick lettuce....

You mean they do jobs that pay REAL money? J

Jesus...about time SOMEONE on fucking TV woke up and at least tried to put a end to that shit that they all "do jobs other Americans wouldn't do".

What bullshit....

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. I agree

The assertion that illegal immigrants are only doing jobs American won't do is the biggest LIE in the entire debate. Illegal immigrants ARE forcing down wages for all American workers. Call them temp workers or illegals, the goal is to turn back the clock on 100 years of progress in safety and living wages by American workers.

[Disturbed]

11. The alarm bell went off when it became evident...

the Illegal Immigrants were doing jobs that American Citizens were doing but were being replaced by Illegal Immigrants. Before that it didn't seem to be a problem.

[WestSeattle2]

12. Yup

as long as they stayed in the lettuce fields things were just fine. But then employers from sausage factories discovered they could pay these people $7\hour, instead of paying a legal worker $15\hr.

Then the construction industry noticed that they could pay these folks $10\hour to pound nails, instead of $25\hr for union carpenters. By the time new home owners discovered that their new homes were\are built like shit, the contractors were\are long gone.

It pains most of us to realize that our own government is accomodating and actually promoting the downward spiral of wages and benefits for working, legal, citizens.

It truly is a race to the bottom, and the folks really being screwed by illegal immigration, are low and middle income legal citizens.