Posted on 04/24/2006 9:23:15 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
I thought you were for the rule of law? The law includes a minimum wage. Guess you need to change that.
I guess I don't understand your question - there's an apple orchard near your home but there's "a large crop of Mexicans there"?
Plenty of economists smarter than I want to get government out of the minimum wage business.
G'night, sleep tight if your conscience will allow it.
P.S. "Slave wages" are mutually exclusive.
Sad? But then again we are dealing in reality, reality is the law includes a min. wage and this is just ONE MORE LAW BEING BROKEN.
A few years back I felt safe in Oak Ridge at night. I shop at night but I watch my back in the store parking lots now. Stores that a few years ago didn't need security guards now have them.
Good night - maybe tomorrow you can answer my questions?
Mutually exclusive? I don't quite see what you mean, you might want to illuminate.
What do you mean "sad"?
Questionable commiseration for your plight.
Yea makes a lot of sense doesn't it. Plenty of Mexicans but no apples and the trees in unmaintained condition. That means the ownwer wasn't paying them not at least from the crops anyway.
The definition of "slave" is ZERO wages - get it?
O.K., so what's your problem with these Mexicans then?
I owned freighters late 80s to mid 90s.
Oddly...even under Willie....INS did it's job.
If one of my crew jumped ship or we had a third world stowaway.
I had to post bond and pay a fine and pay return transport if they were caught.
I had to pay 5K to get my ex-wife legal here.
Now...it's all a damned joke. We are giving the foxes the keys to the henhouse...hell, they claim we took it from them...it's their's rightfully.
Che sez so anyhow.
How about supporting enforcement of the immigration laws we have? Then, you don't have to go through contortions trying to justify the unjustifiable.
You have stated before that you would like the illegals to become citizens. Do you think, once they become citizens, they would accept the low pay that you advocate?
Anyone who is caught before the law is changed should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law. Once the law is changed and they are citizens, I don't expect them to accept low wages, but then that's why I think Bush wants a Bracero-type program too.
I'm sure you read about that murder in Murfreesboro last week where the two Hispanic males with gang tats were robbing the store and when they boasted to kill the woman at the counter, another latin man asked them not to.
They shot him in the head.
I looked to send money to his family. He's an illegal...maybe Salvadoran...a hero but no one knows who he is. John Doe
Car theft is up in the very parts of Nashville where illgegals congregate.
Nashville had the highest spike in murders last year of any major Metro area in the US
Guess which demographics? not crackers, bloods or asians...guess who?
tonight...another dead hispanic male body found ...multiple gunshot wounds
folks have no idea how all this plays out
so naive and foolish we are
Read my previous post. They are taking jobs here Americans will in fact do. Go to any convience store here with Western Union capabilities and you'll find them also. They'll be the ones wiring a fist full of cash back to Mexico or wherever. Then they leave in their brand new SUV's. In short they lower the area's standard of living by taking good jobs. If the gas prices stay up we're headed into a 1982 or worse type of recession likely by this fall.
Around this area in 1982 you could not get a part time job even at Mickey'D's unless your had friends who told you they were quiting. IOW there's going to be a lot of angry people.
I had great-grandparents who worked for the company store.. i.e., slave wages (From the age of 9 qne 10 years). You work for just enough to pay for the mattress you sleep on and the bit of food you need to sustain yourself. In any sense of human compassion it is recognized as 'slave wages'. (Basic subsistence - if you're lucky). I despise people who prey on the poverty and ignorance of others. Nevermind the harm they do to the American middle class by lowering the quality of life to a third world standard.
Of course I would hope that you would NOT do that, after all you were quite concerned that we taxpayers and churches subsidize the necessities of the illegal workers. You just don't seem to be too concerned about the obligations of their employers.
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