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Which Americans Won’t Work ? ( Jobs Americans Won't Do)
TOWNHALL ^ | J. D. Pendry

Posted on 05/01/2006 1:20:55 PM PDT by SirLinksalot

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To: AnnoyedOne

And day without illegals, great! Century without illgeals, Heavenly, NO amnesty for any of them and no fastrack to citizenship PRICELESS!!!


21 posted on 05/01/2006 1:49:00 PM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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To: Rakkasan1; Americanwolf; kstewskis; Borax Queen; HiJinx; nicmarlo

I signed up for the McCain $50/hr program figuring having not worked in about a year this would be good jingle. Come to find out he wasn't offering near that amount. Now I'm sitting back waiting for the settlement on my false advertising lawsuit against McCain.AWB


22 posted on 05/01/2006 1:50:10 PM PDT by Americanwolfsbrother (Minutemen, Muster Up!)
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To: Rakkasan1

We should all skip eating/purchasing lettuce and let the lettuce growers take a financial beating ... maybe they'll get the hint and stop hiring the illegals.


23 posted on 05/01/2006 1:53:27 PM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: Gefreiter

Unnecessary. Their predictions about the price of goods is vastly overstated.

Let's use your reference to lettuce, I have seen that one in the media too. What are those workers making? Minimum wage or thereabouts? Let's say it is just 5 bucks an hour just for the sake of arguement. I watched those pickers in some video on tv, they are pretty speedy.. tossing a head of lettuce about one every 2 or 3 seconds. But lets also be generous and say that for this example, they are screwing around.. picking only 1 head every 15 seconds. That would be 240 head of lettuce in an hour. Increasing the price of a head of lettuce by just ONE NICKLE, will mean that the workers could be given a $12 per hour raise.. for a total of around 17 bucks per hour. I know a LOT of Americans who would beat the doors down to get a chance at a job that pays 17 bucks an hour. At the REAL speed at which they pick lettuce, they could give that $12 an hour raise by increasing the cost of a head of lettuce ONE PENNY.


24 posted on 05/01/2006 1:55:34 PM PDT by AnnoyedOne
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

the way our gubmint works(or doesn't) we'd end up susidizing them to not grow lettuce.


25 posted on 05/01/2006 1:55:47 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (lead ,follow or get out of the majority.start with our borders.)
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To: AnnoyedOne

Do you mean immigrant...or illegal immigrant?

You need to be VERY clear.


26 posted on 05/01/2006 1:56:09 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: cripplecreek

ROFL!

susie


27 posted on 05/01/2006 1:59:00 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: tortoise
"... they were being paid more than the minimum wage."

In my relatively low-cost, medium-size city, day labor hired outside the local Home Depot commands between $8.00 and $10.00 an hour for unskilled or semi-skilled work. At that wage, the labor pool is almost exclusively Spanish-speaking (primarily Mexican or Salvadorian) of dubious immigration status.
28 posted on 05/01/2006 2:00:19 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: tortoise

Illegal construction laborers in NE Virginia, hanging sheetrock for example, were making $14/hour last summer. Unskilled, undocumented, under the table.

I work part time for an armored car company, which required I already hold a state pistol permit; pass DOT physicals and drug screening; background check; range qualify to company standard; and de facto provide my own weapon (not strictly required, but company weapons are garbage). Starting wage: $11/hr, but of course after all the witholdings more like $7.50 or so. There are people in that company with 3-4 years experience who wish they made $14/hour.

There is something fundamentally wrong when working Americans only pray to be paid like an illegal alien.


29 posted on 05/01/2006 2:03:00 PM PDT by Gefreiter ("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
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To: AnnoyedOne

"I know a LOT of Americans who would beat the doors down to get a chance at a job that pays 17 bucks an hour."

Well, you don't know me but count me in; see my post #29.


30 posted on 05/01/2006 2:06:25 PM PDT by Gefreiter ("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
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To: SirLinksalot
Penalties for the companies that hire them anyone?

*crickets*

31 posted on 05/01/2006 2:07:26 PM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Gefreiter

The 14 bucks an hour an immigrant makes isn't steady work. No doubt if the employer had full time work paying 14 an hour he'd hire legal workers.


32 posted on 05/01/2006 2:10:19 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Rodney King

Go to any public housing project in America and see droves of people who won't work.


33 posted on 05/01/2006 2:13:33 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Rodney King
You are so wonderfully insensitive.
34 posted on 05/01/2006 2:30:04 PM PDT by BJClinton
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To: Gefreiter; Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; Jhoffa_; FITZ; arete; FreedomPoster; Red Jones; ...
So the price of a head of lettuce is what's driving decisions about illegal immigration? Friggin' lettuce? OK then going forward, let it be known that I am perfectly willing to pay $8 for a head of lettuce.

Read my tagline.

35 posted on 05/01/2006 3:08:28 PM PDT by A. Pole (If the lettuce cutters were paid $10 more per hour, the lettuce head would cost FIVE CENTS more.)
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

Watched a major network bit on the danger of eating lettuce on TV last night. No more lettuce for me after learning the truth about eating lettuce and other uncooked vegetables.


36 posted on 05/01/2006 3:11:03 PM PDT by VOATNOW1
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To: BJClinton
And so wonderfully right.

37 posted on 05/01/2006 3:14:40 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: SirLinksalot
providing a program that allows hard working, honest people who can clear a criminal background check to come here on work permits that require them to return to their country once each year - permits for which they or their employers must pay processing and annual renewal fees. If instead, the politicians give us amnesty, then I’m for flushing the whole kit and caboodle

That's the key. A legal"guest worker" program that can be enforced and pays for itself. Bush gets it, but the panderers in Congress don't. And since they pander to several different groups, nothing is likely to happen. Shame on all of us.

38 posted on 05/01/2006 3:14:44 PM PDT by speekinout
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To: SirLinksalot

After reading the first two paragraphs of this article, I thought it was some kind of joke or parody. The guy complains about his Federal tax dollars going to support the University of California, yet he's from West Virginia -- which has long had a reputation as the welfare capital of the U.S. filled with taxpayer-funded monuments to Robert "Sheets" Byrd.


39 posted on 05/01/2006 3:18:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: norraad
Maha?

Aha? Ros banez yache benefuce "ironhead."

40 posted on 05/01/2006 3:18:27 PM PDT by sinkspur (Things are about to happen that will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.)
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