The $700 Billion Stimulus: More Sprawl More Illegals?

Obama is planning on a tour of the country to sell his outrageous $700 billion dollar stimulus package. The package supposedly consists of money to fund "backlogged" transportation projects, school improvements and other projects that are supposed to "stimulate" the economy. The inherent idea is that the stimulus package provides money for new green technologies and mass transit. It won't work.

The states for one do not want Obama's mass transit plans for them. They want to build more roads that will only aggravate urban sprawl.

Missouri’s plan to spend $750 million in federal money on highways and nothing on mass transit in St. Louis doesn’t square with President-elect Barack Obama’s vision for a revolutionary re-engineering of the nation’s infrastructure.

Utah would pour 87 percent of the funds it may receive in a new economic stimulus bill into new road capacity. Arizona would spend $869 million of its $1.2 billion wish list on highways.

These projects are supposed to employ thousands of Americans and by extension prop up the economy by these workers new wages. Really? Katrina should have employed thousands of out-of-work Louisiana residents but instead thousands of illegals got jobs.

Thousands of men from Mexico and Central America were driving into the city. Word had spread throughout the Latino immigrant diaspora in America that the city had plenty of work, construction wages had doubled to $16 an hour and no one was asking for papers.

Are we looking at another Katrina? The employment boom won't go to Americans provided by the stimulus. It most likely will go to illegals who will once again flock to America to seek employment in construction. The construction this time won't be homes but roads and other infrastructure projects and the stimulus for this "growth industry" will be Obama's stimulus package.

Of course we need to blame the contractors and subcontractors who hire the illegals. These "Americans" are more concerned with profit than their own country. These people get away with their crimes because the laws in this country are not strong enough to do more than levy weak fines. They still keep their licenses and continue to work and in many cases continue to hire illegals at below par wages.

The group of five contractor groups are suing to the federal government to abolish new immigration checks.

Five trade groups are suing the Homeland Security Department to block a new requirement that federal contractors check the immigration status of their employees using the department’s E-Verify system.

The new immigration checks these contractor trade groups are against are federal contractors and subcontractors are required to verify the employment eligibility of all new hires regardless of whether those employees will perform work on a federal contract. Existing employees assigned to government work also must be re-verified using the system.

Is this such a problem for the contractor groups? The case was filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Associated Builders and Contractors, the Society for Human Resource Management, the American Council on International Personnel and the HR Policy Association.

Obama better gear up for a huge showdown. The environmental groups vs local and state governments over sprawl and pro-illegal and contractor groups vs the American worker.