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To: Always Right
Did you not know they are millions of Americans just dying to pick fruit and bus tables in this country, all which would be happy to do it for minimum wage

Where? I know one horse farmer who tried to get someone to help out on his farm for $3.00 over the minimum wage and could not find a worker. There is a building contractor who needed roofers, where did he find them? Not at the employment office or in the paper, no one applied and he paid over the minimum wage and had benefits just for helpers. When he did get someone, they did not know how to read a tape measure let alone do simple math.

26 posted on 03/29/2006 3:41:23 AM PST by SLB (Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
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To: SLB

Ssshhhh. I was being a bit sarcastic. Fruit farmers have been hiring Mexicans for decades and decades because no one is willing to do the work for any reasonable price.


28 posted on 03/29/2006 3:44:19 AM PST by Always Right
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He should have offered "way over" the minimum wage. That's the ticket. There's nothing in the law that guarantees any business person the right to pay only the minimum wage.


33 posted on 03/29/2006 3:46:30 AM PST by muawiyah (-)
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