EMPLOYER'S CROCODILE TEARS. For what it's worth, I'm with Dean Baker on thinking the employer complaints about the immigration bill sound much more like an attempt to influence the legislation than scotch it. As Baker writes, "[t]he 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." Indeed, the businesses quoted are all saying one of two things: Larger guest-worker program or less regulation. Color me shocked! --Ezra Klein
