Undocumented Workers Lose Job; Rich Utah Oil Baron Who Hired Them Goes Unscathed

During the mid-1990s Senator Orrin Hatch was pimping for the rich Utah oil baron Robert Earl Holding, by sneaking a bill past the Senate that gave Holding ownership to a much desired and expensive mountain property in exchange for undeveloped forest land that was not comparable in price. The taxpayers lost in that deal.

The expensive land was next to a local ski resort that Holding had purchased and was planning to turn into a luxury year-round resort in time for the 2002 Winter Olympics. This resort ended up hosting several of the prime skiing events during the winter games.

Without the land swap, none of these improvements at the local ski resort, Snowbasin, would have been possible.

Hatch should pass a bill where he trades land to the homeless in exchange for their dirty socks. It will be a bad deal for the tax payers, but it would serve society better than the uneven land swap he helped Holding receive over 15 years ago.

Hatch also once introduced a bill that would help children who were brought illegally into this country by their parents. This bill became widely known as The Dream Act. Of course Hatch has changed direction, due to pressure from the Tea Party, and is now strongly opposed to any bill that would help any undocumented immigrant.

The DREAMers are not a bunch of fat cats who can make Orrin's wrinkles smile. They are easily expendable by Hatch as he pursues his own dream act to stay in power.

Without the Tea Party support, Hatch will not even make it into a primary in Utah next year. He will suffer the same humiliating defeat as former Senator Bob Bennett, who failed to make it out of the stacked Republican state convention as a candidate in the primaries.

Hatch wants to ensure that he is elected once more to serve the people-the rich people who wantonly screw the the common tax payer.

Holding made out like a fat cat in a fish factory with the land swap. Now his luxury hotel in Salt Lake City, the Grand America, has been cited by an audit conducted by the feds which determined that "an unspecified number of employees at the Grand America hotel lack valid documentation to work in the United States."

The workers will lose their jobs. The owner of the hotel will not be punished. Not even a hand slap.

The part of illegal that I do not understand is the part of why it rarely applies to the super-rich.

Why do the rich have land handed to them by spineless unethical Senators?

Why are they exempt from laws that prohibit their hiring of illegal workers?

Why?

Because it is the real world we live in. Get used to it or change it. Since I am not a revolutionary with a gun, I choose to be a revolutionary with a vote. Unfortunately, Hatch will pull enough back room deals with the Tea Party people where he will be guaranteed the nomination and the automatic victory that comes with running as a Republican in one of the reddest of states.

But I am hoping that the Tea Party remembers who Orrin Hatch really represents, and it ain't them, baby!



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