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To: kearnyirish2
Those people would work the jobs if they weren’t paid so well to sit on their duffs, and the law of supply & demand would arrive at a real wage.

This is true, at least to some extent. It's the government and welfare that's distorting the supply/demand curve - the immigrant work force is merely a reaction to that and a porous southern border- and of course the border is another government problem. This is a government caused problem, not a business caused problem.

But we still need to get consistent: does a great country provide ALL it's own low skilled labor? I don't think so. Should our immigration policies target the low skilled or the skilled labor markets? I think the answer is obvious.

15 posted on 12/18/2015 5:04:59 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Until civilized populations started declining, they always provided the full spectrum of labor (from skilled through unskilled); we didn’t import Mexicans to pump gas or work on garbage trucks sixty years ago (and Europe didn’t either). Our current immigration policy is to simply inundate this country with people from anywhere in the world in an attempt to create a rival for two Asian giants with over a billion people each; it is obvious that “work” isn’t even factored into the equation; these people are needed as consumers (of housing, public education, Wal-Mart goods), not workers (we already have very high unemployment). Nancy Pelosi made it very clear that a government check was as good as a paycheck; we’re the ones funding those “government checks”.


17 posted on 12/18/2015 5:18:20 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
But we still need to get consistent: does a great country of 300 million + provide ALL it's own low skilled labor when 90 million are not in the work force? I don't think so.

Fixed it.

24 posted on 12/18/2015 5:37:57 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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