Posted on 06/17/2004 7:45:09 PM PDT by asmith92008
Previously posted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155115/posts
If you've ever been an employer you would appreciate the frustrations of finding and keeping good employees. To think that an employer would pay a good employee less than another employee simply because of his immigration compliance status is unusual.
Having been an employer in several different type businesses and having many friends who are employers, I can assure you that there are more important factors than pay level.
Yes, in large companies it's common to replace employees with seniority with lower salaried younger ones. But that's usually white collar administrative jobs.
Rarely do you see a good skilled electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, etc.. replaced by an inexperienced one. It's simply too hard to find good skilled employees.
An English speaking citizen is preferred to a non-english speaking illegal alien. But that's usually not the choice. Usually the choice is between someone who knows their job, is willing to work hard, and can be depended upon to show up for work every day verses no employee at all, or one with an attitude, or one that can't be depended upon to show up, or one that doesn't take pride in his work, etc...
When a contractor has deadlines to meet, he can't afford to hire less than the best employees and he is willing to pay what it takes to get them. If they happen to be immigrants, that's just the nature of the labor market.
I am not an "environmentalist" yet I reject high levels of unassimilated immigrants. We can barely hold onto a natinoal identity as it is (which is important when push comes to shove). We do not need mass immigration especially immigrants who have El presidente Fox come into America to tell them how it is going to be here in America. The issue of cheap labor has been brought up and it is simple supply and demand of course the more workers there are the lower the the pay rates. I am an American first type not an environmentalist.
How so? And specifically how would this hurt you?
Culture changes in America without regard to population. Gay weddings, sexual permissiveness, low carb eating trends, cell phones, SUVs, gambling, shaved heads, greater % of people staying single, children reading 500 page books (Harry Potter) rap music, internet, sail boarding, etc...
How is a tripling of population going to change the culture to hurt you? Specifically?
Well, isn't that nice.
What is your culture, Frank?
Is it, by any chance, American.
Don't be surprised to find that you have, and use, snippets of many different cultures in yours.
You heard it here first.
The problem is that there are many illegals who are grateful for me to pay for feeding, clothing, housing, educating and doctoring their children.
Eliminate ALL forms of welfare for illegals, and I'll buy your scenario. As long as they're on the dole, though, they're parasites we don't need.
Tell that to the farmer/agribusiness complex that promotes the food stamp program.
Bayourod writes,
"Sometimes it's difficult to tell which ones are simply racists [...]"
It's not difficult at all, Bayourod: the racists are the race-replacers. You, for example, are a racist -- big time.
"During an immigration subcommittee hearing in March, Mr. Cannon had the gumption to question the executive director of CIS, Mark Krikorian, as well as to challenge Roy Beck, who heads NumbersUSA and serves as 'spokesman' for CFAW."
Mr. Cannon? HIM? Oh yeah, good old Cannonball Addlehead, the guy who is long-since bought and paid for by Wall Street, MECHA, La Raza, and the Vicente Fox administration (probably with a few tips thrown in by the neocons...).
"After first denying it, Mr. Krikorian was forced to admit that CIS is a spin-off of FAIR."
A spin-off of FAIR? Ohhhhh -- you mean the same way some supporters of forced race-replacement like The Southern Carpetbagger Poverty-Pimp Lawless Way-Left-of-Center get-rich-quick scheme of Morris Dees are spin-offs of "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital," and other advocates of forced race-replacement, like The Off-the-Wall Street-Walker Urinal and the entire Bush administration are spin-offs of the worst sort of mafioso-type Bush-family Tex-Mex mutually-bribing, scratch-my-back-I'll scratch-yours Crony-Capitalism? Ohhhhh, now I get it -- in that case, yeah, I guess you could say CIS is a spin-off of FAIR...but what's the point?
"In fact, CIS, FAIR, NumbersUSA, Project-USA -- and more than a half-dozen similar groups that Republicans have become disturbingly comfy with -- [...]"
Disturbingly comfy with? COME AGAIN??? We should be so lucky... The GOP has things exactly on track for bringing about a non-white majority in this country in thirty more years, with the last remnants of the white race here to be finally extinguished not too much longer after that -- ten years, maybe? fifteen? fifteen, tops. So, who are the GOP getting disturbingly comfy with? Bush is so comfy with the immigration-reformers he's going to lose his shirt in November as those immigration reformers all vote for Nader, Peroutka, or someone else out of desperation, someone with a triple-digit IQ who actually does things like read newspapers... Yeah, Bush is really comfy with the immigration reformers... moron is gonna take a nosedive in Novermber and drag the whole Republican majority in Congress down with him. But hey, maybe this Alfred E. Newman clone will still have a future after November -- with MAD Magazine (also known as The Wall Street Journal...)
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