Posted on 06/03/2005 6:12:35 AM PDT by shortstop
Everyone prefers the free market that endures and prospers -- and history shows that's only the one with some clear simple and honest rules.
...And then there is reality. For the last eight weeks I have been trying to hire a landscape contractor to do work at my house. I telephoned eleven contractors, but only four called me back. All four made an appointment to give me an estimate. Only one showed up. I accepted his estimate "as is." He never showed up to do the work. The issue can't be about money, because I never talked money with the contractors who I called and I accepted the only bid that I received without question. I don't want to hire illegals, but I can't do the work myself, and I can't get a legal contractor to do the work. But I do know that if I go to a certain street corner at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, I'll be able to hire three illegals who will do an excellent job at an excellent price (although I will have to take them shopping for materials). I'm not going to hire the illegals, at least not yet. My point is that in certain areas of the country there really are some jobs that only illegals will do.
Yup. But hey, I'm always interested in hearing an opposing viewpoint that's rational and laid out properly. IF it even exists, that is.
Some people prefer the underground economy. They prefer to cheat their way through life at your expense. They're perfectly happy to let you subsidize their cheap labor. Take from you to give to them. They can't compete with honest businessmen.
We call them liberals, they call themselves "moderates".
Businesses employing illegals are no different that businesses dealing in stolen goods. They are making profit on illegal activity.
How many businesses would be allowed to stay open if it became known they were fencing stolen goods? So, .................
And I also know that hispanics will encourage their children that are here illegal, or otherwise to get a good education so they can get a good job, so in twenty years we will be looking at really good jobs going to hispanics and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Racist is cheering on the replacement of native-born Americans with masses of immigrants.
Bttt!
America is being sold out, period.
This argument is time worn and accurate, but the way this article deprecates those arguing the opposing view produces a superlative presentation of the reason Americans "won't do the jobs illegal immigrants will"
Was there in Moscow a bit in the mid-90s when all the fun was going down. The Mafiya types were everywhere - leather jackets, bulges underneath their coats, metal detectors in the restaurants they owned - and always the availability of everything you weren't supposed to have: "You Vant Girl?" they always said.
It was clear that these a**holes were holding Russia back. They created their own kind of friction: bribes. You couldn't do a damn thing business wise without them (sound like a certain failed country to the south of us?). And failing to pay the bribes led to bang-bang...
I know. It's boring and annoying. Like having teenagers pestering you all day. Which I suspect it is...
>There's a wide range of colors and features in "hispanic" people, including some who look like "white guys". The idea of a "hispanic race" is laughable.,
No one said anything about a Hispanic race.I promise you I know the difference in a "Anglo" and a Hispanic.
Correct me if I'm wrong - it seems as though you are saying that the cost of a head of lettuce will go up to $5, right? Talk about bad economics.
If they pick, on a conservative estimate, 800 heads of lettuce in an 8 hour day and they get paid $4/hr that means it costs 4 cents per head to pay them to pick it. If they raise the pay to $10/hr the cost beomse 10 cents. How does that translate into an increase from $2 to $5 at the supermarket?
At the same time, won't the increase in wages bring in better workers, increase the motivation to work harder, etc. Isn't that the true capitalist way? Or does it only work when the employer benefits?
Still babbling, huh moron?
Okay. Thanks for telling me that you realize that you were wrong; that your assertions were wrong; and you don't have any way to back up your claims.
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