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May 21, 2007

Dean Baker: How the New York Times Keeps Getting Immigration Coverage Wrong

"How Do NYT Reporters Know What Employers Foresee? That's the question millions (okay thousands) of NYT readers should be asking of an article that claims employers are now unhappy with immigration bill that they helped craft. The article asserts that employers complain that the bill will not 'cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.' Unless the reporter who wrote this story has ESP, he does not know what the employers actually foresee. He knows what they claim to foresee, which unfortunately (sorry kiddies) is not always the same thing," says Dean Baker. "The article could also have benefitted by looking for some independent evidence of these labor shortages. If the kids haven't had food for weeks, then they probably would be pretty skinny. If we have a labor shortage, then we should see rising wages. In fact, in most of the jobs where the country supposedly has labor shortages, wages are stagnant or falling."

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The Times "creates" news, they don't just report it...

Posted by: takn on May 21, 2007 01:19 PM

ALL THE BRAINLESS MSM HAS TO DO IS READ PRESIDENT BUSH'S HISTORICAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME REPORT FOR AMERICA

To sum it up, since 1999 the American household incomes have been basically flat at $45K per year.

This is horrifying news, American household incomes are FLAT since 1999!!!

But this is a conglomerate household income data which includes millionaire Elites too [whose incomes are going up each year], so in reality the lower incomes are plummetting MASSIVELY lower each year.

See the proof:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/income.html

But we have a labor shortage????

GET REAL!!!

Posted by: Softwarengineer on May 21, 2007 01:22 PM

NYT's reporting on illegal immigration, like most of the MSM (e.g., Associated Press) is lazy, poor, and biased. And what about the claptrap that "employers are now unhappy with immigration bill that they helped craft." ?? What BS. These greedy basta*ds get 90% of what they want in this amnesty scheme and still aren't happy! That's why we must defeat it!

Bottom line, we've managed to survive as nation without millions of illegal aliens, and we can still survive without them -- of course. And there will be no "labor shortage" if these companies pay decent wages (while still making a profit). Look what happened at the Swift Company.

Posted by: Fed Up on May 21, 2007 02:42 PM

LYING LEFT WING PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN RAG!

Posted by: American Me on May 21, 2007 03:22 PM

The Bush administration, all those behind it, whoever they are, have been the worst thing that has happened to this nation. Even now, these traitorous people are talking about increasing legal immigration, when they leave the borders undefended, on purpose. In stead of the New York Times, reporting, in detail on all this crap, they have been energetically covering up for the Bush Administration. When it comes to their coverage of illegal immigration, and the few times I read the New York Times, at the airport, a Starbucks,etc. I don't even pay attention to what they write.

Posted by: Bobby on May 21, 2007 04:05 PM

THE NEW YORK, & LA TIMES ARE LARGELY TO BLAME FOR
THE LACK OF CONCERN SHOWN BY THE DEMS
TOWARD OUR BORDERS AND IMMIGRATION ISSUES.

We all know 89 % of the working reporters in print
news, actively support the DEMOCRATS.

Like the politicians in that Party, and at the BOOSH third of the Republicans, they have a whorish willingness to do whatever is needed to gain LONG TERM POWER. Many hookers have standards, of sorts, but the drug addicted ones will do almost anything required by a customer, to get the drug they crave. The working press crave power the same as MADAM PELOSI! Although NANCY PELOSI is a boss lady she seems to be the most power craving of all. What else would explain the worst conceived major legislation in the last 100 years? Does she consider Mexico to be the best source we have to renew the genius of American culture? I doubt that very much! No, I think she wants to have tens of millions of poor, beholden, lackies to prop up the DEM party. If the party can hold power for 40 years at a crack, maybe longer, like the infamous Mexican "PRI", she will be happy. Screw the middle class...Screw the American Culture...Screw the retirees, and our American PATRIMONY!
Anything for the POWER FIX! How is Nancy any better than her working girls and boys in Washington. POWER CRAVING POLITICAL WHORES ! This whole FIASCO about AMNESTY may turn out to the the last hurrah for the DEMS! They and the
Globalista branch of the GOP may be heading into
demise like the old WHIG PARTY! Time to start
listening to the people. The Senate have become way too big for their own britches! Does it make sense that Barbara Boxer, and old lady Fieinstein
represent nearly 40,000,000 voters? How out of
touch can a state's 2 representatives be! The
6 year interval between their standing for election makes SENATORS more like Emirs, or Rajas, than elected, accountable officials. The
Constitution should be amended to make it 4 years,
per term, NOT 6 YEARS!!!!

Posted by: Allan S. on May 22, 2007 04:57 AM

The answer is "TERM LIMITS" for these idiots! Two (4)year terms and show them the door. Thanks for coming!

Posted by: rick m on May 22, 2007 11:14 AM

It is quickly begining to look like we are landing
some heavy blows on the credibility of the
Monster Moron BOOSH, and his utterly clueless
pals in the bloated DEM ranks. This cobbled together AMNESTY, is like a FRANKENSTEIN
CREATURE assembled with mere duct tape,
rather than surgical stitches!

We may have them on the ropes by Bastille Day!

Listen please, my Patriot brothers and Sisters. We must point to the recent Victory of FRANCE over
moribund socialism and foreign immigrant abuse.
It is no accident that FRANCE has righted themselves from political capsizing. That God.
As I stated before, the Frence can be a pain but
they lead the world in love of their unique western
culture. I say, we should reach out to the new
regime in France and to the fed up French
people in western nationalist solidarity. Bastille Day
is a good time for us to mark our resolve as
Americans to assert our Cultural Patrimony. The
BOOSH ( almost what the French patriots called the Nazis) Globalist Cabal must be politically derailed. The current form of the DEM PARTY
is at least as ignoble as their BOOSH fellow
travelers. Down with these foolish and whorish
political bums. NO GENERAL AMNESTY, ONLY
MINIMAL TERMS TO THE LEAST OFFENSIVE
AMONG THE ILLEGALS, A

Posted by: Allan S. on May 23, 2007 02:31 AM

AMERICAN PEOPLE, DO NOT EVEN BUY ANY NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA ANY MORE, THEY ARE ALL CONTROLLED BY THE LIBERALS WHO WANT TO DESTROY AMERICAN PEOPLE THROUGH MASS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, JUST SIMPLY GO TO FAIRUS. ORG OR WATCH LOUDOBB AND THAT IS ALL!!!

REMEMBER, NO NEWSPAPER-NO LIES! NO TV-NO LIES!! BE SMART, AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON TV, IS TRUE, USE YOUR COMMON SENCE TO FIND OUT WHERE IS THE THRUE OR LIE.

Posted by: JACK on May 23, 2007 07:56 AM

AMERICAN PEOPLE, DO NOT EVEN BUY ANY NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA ANY MORE, THEY ARE ALL CONTROLLED BY THE LIBERALS WHO WANT TO DESTROY AMERICAN PEOPLE THROUGH MASS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, JUST SIMPLY GO TO FAIRUS. ORG OR WATCH LOUDOBB AND THAT IS ALL!!!

REMEMBER, NO NEWSPAPER-NO LIES! NO TV-NO LIES!! BE SMART, AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON TV, IS TRUE, USE YOUR COMMON SENCE TO FIND OUT WHERE IS THE THRUE OR LIE.

Posted by: jack on May 23, 2007 07:57 AM