Posted on 08/21/2005 3:31:38 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
We can thank the OBL types (dane, bayourod, WSJ)and multiculturalists for the next civil war. For some reason they work well together.
If they make 20k/yr, well, I know plenty of Americans that are here legally, born here, in fact, that would like to make that. I think your numbers are far off. On the one hand, illegal Mexicans just take the jobs that Americans don't want and on the other hand they make $20,000 a year, which is certainly what some Americans I know would like to make.
You are exactly right. I'm biased as hell. That you are not, frankly, disturbs me. I don't want to "limit" illegal immigration; I want to end it altogether. It disturbs me that you only want to limit it.
You don't limit the spread of a deadly disease, or the invasion of a nation, you eradicate it.
You logic is faulty. Of course there is a choice and freemarketeers make one.
Second WHY DO YOU OPPOSE workers and "wealth-creators"? Workers ARE the wealth creators even if they do not share in it. You are confusing the creation of wealth with acquiring/owning it.
Thank you for compliment. But I do not believe in zero sum.
The sum usually is negative or positive, but the secind still can be bad.
Negative if we remove regulations and allow the radical stratification of wealth we might end up with very rich minority and very poor majority in Latin American oligarchical model.
Oligarchist freemarketeers believe that if you squeeze workers to the subsistence level, if you remove social spending on education, health care and housing you make society more prosperous just because the few can enjoy opulence in the gated and protected communities with the armies of security guards and servants.
They hate any form of New Deal and imagine that it is better to own 20 millions in Bogota, Columbia than have 5 millions in Weston, Massachusetts. They do not want large uppity middle class around. They are the real believers in zero sum economy. They do not realise that by ruining lower classes they lead to the contraction of economy and to the poisoning of the society.
Now the sum can be positive and still bad. Imagine situation that there are two families in US, one making 100K per year and another making 30K per year. If you increase the income of the first by 20K at the expense of the second losing 15K you INCREASE the total from 130K to 135K. But you improve standard of living of the first by little while you make the second miserable.
In large scale it might lead to the social deterioration and costs not detectable by been counters..
You need to read my other posts. The reason why an illegal can make $100/day is because there is more expense and even more risk hiring legal workers for the same amount. Many small manual labor businesses can't afford to comply with the regulations and paperwork. Illegals get the jobs and cash at the end of the day because of our socialist taxation and regulation of businesses.
And if the borders were completely open and 300 millions people from the Third World migrated in, the economy would get even larger.
That is why the slavery was superior to the Free Market ideology. Slave owners were morally responsible for their slaves. Free-marketeers see the workers as a mere commodity, useless or harmful if not profitable.
Yes, but is an ideological abstraction. When you employ human beings you enter into interpersonal relationship. You become morally obliged and your employees become obliged to you. And you are obliged to the whole society as well. The rights without obligations are a fiction.
Market system is ONLY A TOOL to advance the general welfare of the society. It is not a god or absolute. The real God gave you talents and goods in order for you to do good, and not to promote selfishness. And it is better if you pay workers more than the market forces you to do and it is better than to give to the charity.
Americans are the elite in their gated and (relatively) protected land. We are vastly overpaid, coddled with government handouts including education, medical and housing subsidies. We are indeed squeezing foreign workers to the subsistence level by allowing countries like China to ramp up their productive capacity on the backs of their workers.
But to get back to my point on this thread, it is clear that legal and illegal immigrants add to our economy. They ship relatively few dollars back overseas. They are wealth creators like you say but do not enable exploitation by wealth-takers as you suggest. That wealth-taking is provided by our government by burdening business with taxes and regulations that cause legal labor to be devalued, especially manual labor. There may be a special "tax" if a business is caught hiring illegals but the risk of that is much lower than the risk of getting audited over deduction of the expenses of legal employees.
The bottom line is that in the relative free market for illegal labor there is a large amount of wealth being created by employers and shared with employees who spend a large portion of that wealth consuming services and products in the rest of our economy.
It is better to promote such wage structure that workers do not need to rely on charity.
Invasion?
I was just going to say something similar about the hypnotic Hush Bimbo cult, bu you were faster.
Its certainly true for workers in California. Basic math indicates a CA family of four will pay over $1000 dollars per year to support the 9 billion/year cost of illegal immigration.
And I don't care if they do buy enough potato chips & coca colas to compensate for their immense cost. Their uninhibited presence here is morally offensive. That is my bottom line.
Capitalism not only works, but it is morally superior to Socialism, which insists on robbing the productive and the creative in the name of "justice" and giving to those less deserving in the name of "compassion". Isn't it revealing that societies based upon Socialist precepts always wind up either bankrupt, or in ruins? But then, Capitalism is always judged by its excesses, but Socialism is judged only by its promises.
Tell it for example to the tax collector. You owe society a lot.
You refer to God by your curse word and yet you owe your family, friends, neighbors, local community, even strangers to give in the end the account before the Highest Judge. Those who claim not to be their brothers keepers will share the lot of Cain.
Society is the true ideological abstraction - Freedom is not.
Human beings ALWAYS were part of their societies. Societies, tribes, families were before individuals and before the modern concept of freedom (invented in the last few centuries). Society is not abstraction (unless you mean by it the XVIIIc idea of mythical contract based association of primordial individuals).
The true freedom in traditional meaning is a gift of God which enables us to SERVE Him out of our free choice and not by compulsion.
I agree. But, when we are Balkanized, with political factions representing cultures that are very different from ours waring with one another over the American pie, with large numbers of Americans off the wage rolls or working for sustinance pay, such that we have to depend on importing foreign slave labor made products so people can afford them, bemoaning the fact that socialist taxation and regulation was the root cause will be little comfort.
We must get tough. Expend the manpower and materials to eliminate the capability to easilly cross the southern border. Spend the 5 years or so to identify and deport immediately illegals a group at a time.
Deny them the nipple and deny the businesses to cheap labor.
"Diseases desperate grown/By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all."
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