Posted on 08/05/2005 1:04:32 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
You can't let businessmen do that in a vacuum. They'll establish zero availability of U.S. workers by stipulating a Third World wage, or a compromise wage benchmarked to same, in order spuriously to claim that "no American workers" are available.
You can't implicitly let business control wages, or they'll reset wages to Calcutta levels, because they're greedy and don't want to pay people. My source for that statement? A former boss who came clean 30 years ago, because he knew he'd be getting rid of me in a couple of months anyway -- because I'd asked for the raise I'd been promised a year earlier!
Employers screw workers every chance they get. Adam Smith and Milton Friedman agree, you can't trust those guys for two milliseconds when there's money on the table.
If labor is weak, and when international labor is involved, the government as a whole has to exercise the syndical function, lest its people be beggared by international interests arbitraging and ripsawing regional labor markets, playing whole continents off against one another as a labor oligopsony.
Ping to my last.
"Reduce unemployment and welfare benefits."
People pay for unemployment when they are working. Now welfare is something else entirely. I was listening to a show the other night that said the overhead for the welfare programs are 75%.
He won't roll over.
I think that's Mexican Spanish for "screw you, gringo."
Enjoy the Democrat majority in the House and the Senate in 2007, Mr. President.
Hells bells! Slavery would benefit employers too.
No doubt about that.
This is worse than a cop-out Cecily. This is fundamentally dishonest. If they can't find an American to do the job then the solution isn't to bus in busloads of illegals but to raise the wages to the point where American's are attracted.
This is dishonest and he knows it!!
I'm becoming VERY disenchanted with President Bush.
Thanks
That will happen anyway, because business is grimly determined to have totally uncontrolled immigration. The kicker to their bottom line is too strong to overcome except with absolute certainty of ineluctable, dire punishment.
So far, the failure to enforce has emboldened them to the point of piracy; they're almost as brash as the narcotraficantes.
Then let the sumbiches sell their crap to the third world. Thats what really p*sses me off... they want to use third world labor & charge first world prices.
They must know its not sustainable, that they are killing the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, but-they-just-don't-care.
ditto on that! AS I sit here drinking my margarita, I'm getting madder! Wake up George!
they either "re-up"
Or drop an anchor baby and ask to stay to protect the new American citizen.
I guess he is right.
It'll be like something out of Robert Heinlein's "future history" novels, in which the American landscape has come to recognize something like today's Baghdad, where you can't move down the street without reactive armor and a big gun on top.
In what way it will make Americans (US labor) more competitive if they get paid $4 or $2 per hour? How will they pay their bills (which are not at the Third World level? How will they get to work without cars?
Curious minds want to know?
He's fully awake and working hard. He's just not working for you on this issue.
Sorry to say.
I agree.
Plentiful cheap labor enables employers to keep wages low. That hurts low skill American workers who have to accept low wages to undercut illegals to get jobs. It also retards innovation. Employers with large pools of cheap labor don't have to find new, innovative, efficient, competitive ways to produce goods and services at low prices. They stay in business by paying their workers peanuts. Studies that have been done, I believe in Australia, prove this. Think of countries with large pools of cheap, relatively uneducated labor--they're not at the forefront of innovative economic powers.
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