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Karl’s kid
Thanks to a morning speech to the National Federation of Independent Business, we now know what Karl Rove does not want his soon to do for a living.
“Now frankly,” Rove said during a riff on the temporary worker part of President Bush’s immigration reform plan, “I don’t want my kid digging ditches. I don’t want my kid slinging tar. But I know somebody’s got to do it. And we ought to have a system that allows people who want to come here to work to do jobs for which Americans are not lining up.”
What are those tasks that foreigners are more willing to do than Americans are (other than watching soccer)?
“I don’t know where you’re from,” said Rove, “but in Austin, Texas in August if you see some guy on top of a roof slinging tar odds are he is not a U.S. citizen.”
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