Posted on 01/14/2004 8:57:42 PM PST by JoeSchem
I'm so glad that Corporate America has proven to be charitable. I used to think that Big Business was in business to make money, but it turns out, they're in business to serve their workers, reduce their profits, and give away their wealth.
I learned this from the support by the business community for the President's illegal immigrant amnesty program.
Today, businesses employ millions of illegal immigrants. These illegals take money under the table and so the businesses don't have to pay taxes on their labor. This allows the businesses to keep down the cost of their products and services, which creates greater consumer demand, and therefore more profit.
But now these illegals will have an opportunity to become legal workers. This will dry up the labor market for illegal immigrant workers. The businesses employing these illegals will now have to hire legal workers. That means they'll have to pay over the table wages -- and the taxes that come with them. This will drive up the cost of the goods and services that these businesses produce. It will lower consumer demand and thereby cause profits to decline.
Thanks to illegal immigration amnesty, a lot of CEOs are looking at failed stock options, bankruptcy and termination. Yet they don't flinch in their enthusiasm for the President's amnesty program. They are so filled with compassion that they are willing to see their businesses go down the toilet so that illegal immigrants can receive work visas. Isn't that special?
What, you don't think CEOs are compassionate? You think they're actually so greedy that they would sell out their own country to make a quick buck?
But the logic is impeccable -- by supporting illegal immigration amnesty, they are guaranteeing that they will lose money through the resulting higher labor costs. They'd have to be fiscal idiots, who got their jobs solely by butt-kissing, to think otherwise. They'd have to be so blinded by their greed, and so short-term in their thinking, that they don't see the long term (ie, next year's) result of illegal immigrant amnesty will be personal financial disaster -- and that, given today's anti-business climate, such failure could result in prison sentences as investors demand a careful accounting of the corporate books.
Corporate CEOs couldn't be so greedy and short-sighted as to fail to see such inevitable, obvious, and catastrophic consequences to themselves. Nobody could be that blind in their greed, could they?
The day after the amnesty goes into effect, there will be ten million anti-discrimination lawsuits filed against the businesses currently employing illegal immigrants. It's sad that all those charitable business leaders are going to be sued out of their wealth by the very illegals they exploit -- er, employ -- but hey, you can't expect everybody to be as compassionate, unselfish, and altruistic as a corporate executive.
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