Contractors weigh in on new immigration bill

Glenwood Springs Post Independent, CO ^ | September 4, 2006 | Donna Gray

[freedumb2003]

Those evil contractors, how dare they try to find willing workers to build shelter, or in tom tancredo's case, to build his basement home theater in Colorado, when he is in DC busy being on every 24/7 network cable show, bashing the people building his basement home theater in Colorado.

How TERRIBLE the contractors will have to keep raising their wage until it meets a market price. How TERRIBLE is Capitalism. How TERRIBLE is it that we have to pay for the health, schooling and other things of illegal invaders.

Capitalism sucks in your world, I know.

[stephenjohnbanker]

From my lips to God's ear : )

[Adder]

You hit it precisely.

[Dane]

Capitalism sucks in your world, I know.

I practice Reagan supply side economics, you on the other hand practice the marxist economics of such as the envirowhackos. The envirowhackos wish to restrict the supply of a commodity, energy(oil, coal, nuclear, etc.), while you wish to restrict a different commodity, labor.

[conservativecorner]

The shite' is about to hit the fan for every area of construction. Commercial will hold up for a bit longer.

[Dane]

Labor provided by illegal aliens should be restricted - illegal is illegal. Business doesn't get an exception to follow the law because they cannot or will not recruit and train from within the confines of a pool of American citizens.

OK since you wish to be so idealogically pure, let's take your "America only" ideaology a step further. Let's stop all oil imports right now. Gas would go to $5 a gallon and the economy would go into a tailspin. Now am I for an all oil economy, no I am not. I am for getting us off of dependence on foreign oil and would love to see coal and nuclear provide more of America's energy needs, unlike the envirowhackos who wish to restrict the supply of energy.

In the labor market the supply of native born American labor is being restricted, by rampant abortion and a general trend of young Americans who shy away from manual labor and to pursue white collar careers, but the houses still have to be built, food harvested, and toilets cleaned and there is a willing workforce to do those "evil" things.

I say get out of the way of the contractors and farmers and not do the liberal democrat thing by putting up roadblocks and restrict them trying to get their products to market.

[Dane]

Perhaps parents of teenagers in high school and college do not want their children working in the farm fields where a large percentage of the illegal aliens are criminals (aside from being a criminal for breaking into our nation).

LOL! Whew talk about being delusional. The parents want their kids to take internships in such fields such as medicine, not the farm fields.

But nice try at demonizing people who do such "evil" things as pick the food you eat. Dirty bastards.

[Dane]

Importing of goods does not equate to importing humans for cheap labor

Huh when America imported labor to fuel the industrial revolution in the early 20th century, which built the base of our current prosperity, that's ok.

But doing the same thing now is "evil".

I think there is a definiton of insanity, IMO, overlooking and dismissing what works, and promoting things that don't work, over and over again.

[X918]

Huh when America imported labor to fuel the industrial revolution in the early 20th century, which built the base of our current prosperity, that's ok.,
Er..Dane..It was okay because they were documented.They didnt sneak aacross the border ILLEGALLY like the bunch of rapists,thieves and child molesting scum they are, looking to get their freebies like a bunch of parasites.

[JoeGar]

landscapers ... would be hard put to find employees

Damn, you mean I have to cut my own grass???

[freedumb2003]

while you wish to restrict a different commodity, labor.

The only people who use the term "labor" as a "commodity" are communists and socialists.

Wheat doesn't go to the hospital, go to schools or get welfare.

But at least I know where you are coming from. Your "supply side" fig leaf has clearly slipped off, leaving us all laughing at what it covers.

[Dane]

When labor was imported long ago - there were no tax payer social services to be stuck with. It wasn't a moral thing to do - for the employers to bring in people - pay low wages and provide no social services for people who were practically indentured servants

Yeah those evil corporate barons such as Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford, who without their intitive there would have not been an American industrial revolution and the base of our current prosperity.

Which labor union do you work for, not creating wealth, but like a parasitic tort lawyer, suck off the wealth creation of others.

[Dane]

Wheat doesn't go to the hospital, go to schools or get welfare.

Huh you mean wheat doesn't get help from it's predator insects in the form of insecticides, doesn't get stronger with the help of human engineeringing, and doesn't get welfare in that agri-scientists try to make wheats enviroment the most hospitable so it will be fruitful and reproduce in abundance.