[LetsRok]

What would this mean? U.S. companies would offer pay at or near the minimum wage for jobs they had open in, say, construction. As few Americans can support a family and kids in school on $5 an hour, many of these jobs would go begging. The employer would then be allowed to go to Mexico, where the minimum wage is about 60 cents an hour, or countries where it is even less, and hire all the hard-working labor he needed at the U.S. minimum wage. As there are billions of people on earth who do not earn anything near $5 an hour, what the Bush plan means is throwing open America's borders to millions of workers who will come in and suppress the wages of America's workers.

If a mexican who lives in this country can survive on the wages being offered, then why can't Americans?

[riri]

If a mexican who lives in this country can survive on the wages being offered, then why can't Americans?

Um...because they live 6 guys to an dirty apartment in the barrio and ride a 20 year old bike to work. Are you advocating that lifestyle for Americans?

[ghostrider]

If a mexican who lives in this country can survive on the wages being offered, then why can't Americans?

For the same reason that these Mexicans haven't travelled to the moon like Americans. They are third world peons with a third world standard of living, a third world culture and a third world education.

[Nea Wood]

If a mexican who lives in this country can survive on the wages being offered, then why can't Americans?

1. They crowd many people into one house or apartment, in violation of the law.

2. They live in noisy, dirty, crime-ridden neighborhoods (which used to be nice, by the way, before they came.)

3. They drive old klunker cars and do not bother insuring them.

4. They don't have to pay for medical insurance...all their medical care is free.

5. They get in-state tuition, breaks on buying houses and other benefits, plus many are on some form of public assistance due to their anchor babies.

Americans could live like that, too, (and many may be forced to, if this continues,) but isn't it better if we don't have to?

[wilmington2]

Iraq's people are 60% unemployed and you see on TV how they live. You want that?

[Trickyguy]

If a mexican who lives in this country can survive on the wages being offered, then why can't Americans?

You're willing to live six to a room and piss in the street, right?