Posted on 06/04/2005 6:57:27 PM PDT by Tarantulas
Are you one of those people who pay $2 an hour under the table for babysitting a house full of cantankerous children?
People are not rewarded for hard labor, they are punished. They go home at night in pain from working so hard, while the ones who make money sit in air conditioned offices pushing pencils. All work is important.
The problem is not the illegals as much as the employers. They would never allow their cheap labor force to be deported or themselves to be torted. They would be forced to pay a working wage to Americans, then they'd moan and whine about not making big enough profits and threaten to move their operations to Mexico so they won't STARVE to death. There are plenty of ideologicals out there willing to abolish the minimum wage, and to call you a socialist for not approving of the Mexican style class arrangement. They would rather see Americans living in shanties or under the bridge than to compensate those who make them their huge profits.
Oh well, just a thought... (but it would work too, hopefully I planted a seed in some aspiring lawyer type to search the fine print of the various Equal Opportunity Acts, Fair Labor Codes etc.)
You are behind the times.
The New York minimum wage (New York is one of 12 states where the State minimum wage is higher that the Federal minimum wage) is currently $6.00 per hour and will be increased to $6.75 by next summer.
Minimum Wage Laws in the States - 2005
As far as taxes are concerned, a student that works a summer job at minimum wage won't be paying much, if any, tax after paying Social Security. The employer, however, has to pay L&I taxes on top of that.
Nowadays, for employers, the expense of a high school summer worker is simply not worth the hassle of dealing with a teenager.
And those have dried up. Our company used to hire a few interns every summer, now we don't. The work they used to do just gets done by permanent staff.
Well they certainly can't blame that on illegal immigrants. In fact the anti-illegal crowd blames illegals on increased school enrollment.
Now we laugh at the anti-illegals, anti-business crowd that can't understand it.
Without a plentiful supply of labor, businesses cannot expand.
States that are immigrant friendly, such as Texas and California are prospering, those that are immigrant hostile are not.
The rust belt states will never learn that the weather hasn't changed in two hundred years, only their anti-business attitude has changed.
I see the same things too. And I think it tells us something about the employment market when businesses get jobs based on just those qualifications.
If there actually were many people who wanted these jobs, they'd have to sell on more than that. I'd settle for showing up - English is just an added goodie.
No one ever promises to do a better job than the competition anymore.
Why is that?
Cost savings, and the fact that the intern jobs didn't offer any sort of path into permanent positions with the company, because we are small and hire only experienced people for the most part.
Huh? California is prospering?
Fat chance. Not many lawyers work pro bono.
This is my situation. There are NO JOBS! I'm looking for something to supplement my job that is underemploying me. I just applied at an unemployment agency. This is humiliating in the extreme. Everything requires experience, people need a zillion year degree just to work in data entry. I'm a college student who couldn't even afford the books this semester needed for my classes. I've seen so many people in the unemployment agency and even middle age to elderly people.
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