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Inspectors find dirt on books at Southern Calif. carwashes
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carwash23mar23,0,3592975.story ^

Posted on 03/21/2008 1:52:42 PM PDT by World_Events

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To: Who dat?
Time to get the government out of private employment issues. That includes establishing a minimum wage.

Just as soon as the government(ie taxpayer) gets out of the 'subsidizing' health care & educational benefits for illegal aliens.

21 posted on 03/22/2008 8:46:18 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: World_Events

“...accused owners of illegally underpaying them..”

Is this worse than ILLEGALLY EMPLOYING THEM?

Is this worse than their BEING HERE ILLEGALLY in the first place?

Just which illegal activity are we supposed to be outraged by?


22 posted on 03/22/2008 8:51:22 AM PDT by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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Business owners like these carwashes are the ones who pretend to care about these illegal aliens. They will exploit anyone they can.

Build the @&*! fence!


23 posted on 03/22/2008 9:07:44 AM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: dennisw
Gritty Car Wash?

they make it sound like the Gulag.

Caring for a car wash is:

Repairs.....unless they are too technical and we need outside help

Sweeping and garbage

Topping off soaps and waxes etc

Revenue sorting

Vending top off

Resets on machines

and dealing with happy or unhappy customers

It's not truly hard physical work except rarely and for brief duration but it can be tedious and customers can be such fun.

Sometimes it's unpleasantly hot or cold.

This sounds like a full service wash so those Mexicans are wiping down the car when it comes out of the wash and vacuuming and whatnot.

Beats digging ditches by a mile as far as hard work goes.

24 posted on 03/22/2008 9:22:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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Wardaddy hires strictly legal folks for his car washes. Not that the illegals don’t constantly inquire...they always run away when I demonstrate the technologies we’re using that replaces a legion of towel-wielding aliens.

They must be assuming we here in the South are into the slave labor thing like Southern California. They thought wrong and I encourage them to keep moving whenever possible. They aren’t victims...not when I saw six little Hispanic kids climbing all over a large mower in Wally World yelling that they’re just like daddy. Six kids and he couldn’t have been a day over thirty. “Don’t worry, the government here will help!” All those anchors were dressed with finer clothing than the local tots.

Wardaddy saw a similar situation at the school his kids attends and proactively got the kids from lesser means properly outfitted. He did this because kids shouldn’t be subjugated to the prejudices that dominate the thinking of their elders (styles, fashions, tastes, etc.) when they need to be focused on learning.

If our government applies the rule of law to citizens while allowing those who shouldn’t be here to skid sideways we no longer have a workable civilization.

I’ll vote McCain but I’ll fight his masters just like I fought the Bush family. Third World is not our responsibility and shouldn’t be supported by the working families of America. Kick the illegals out and eat ice cream while perusing all the media sob stories about it. We didn’t buy the “we’d collapse without them” BS and we’re not shedding a tear for the law catching up to them. I DO regret that our enforcement sucked so bad for so long that everyone South of our border regards America as a soft touch.

So - we do not post bilingual signage so long as those requiring it throw trash on the ground while two feet from a provided trash can. I see this consistently and it tells me that the illegal aliens, as a group, regard our country a thing to be used and abused while not giving their neighbors any consideration whatsoever. I retaliate with civility and educational snippets while prepared for anything.


25 posted on 03/22/2008 6:57:50 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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Sounds like Wardaddy car washes are not the kind that need a Mexican village worth of towel jockeys to dry off the cars. Car wash operations vary and in Southern California I guess they are illegal alien labor intensive

You missed my point that in So Cal the owners who employ the illegals are surprise surprise surprise......legal immigrants. And since they have no qualms hiring illegals you better believe they are cheating on taxes in this cash business.

Once more proving my point that so so often the employer of illegals is a legal immigrant. That’s how many get richer than the native born


26 posted on 03/22/2008 8:52:45 PM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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Thanks for the kind words hoss.


27 posted on 03/23/2008 9:06:06 AM PDT by wardaddy (Obama: The candidate for those who think Deliverance was a documentary.)
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Obviously people are more likely to be tossing around money like there is no tomorrow at a wedding or at a casino than at a car wash.


28 posted on 03/23/2008 9:49:04 AM PDT by wideminded
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Car wash operations vary and in Southern California I guess they are illegal alien labor intensive.

Most of them are hand wash.
S. Californians don’t like spinning brushes touching their cars.


29 posted on 03/24/2008 6:47:43 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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