Posted on 05/01/2006 1:20:55 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
And day without illegals, great! Century without illgeals, Heavenly, NO amnesty for any of them and no fastrack to citizenship PRICELESS!!!
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
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.
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.
the way our gubmint works(or doesn't) we'd end up susidizing them to not grow lettuce.
Do you mean immigrant...or illegal immigrant?
You need to be VERY clear.
ROFL!
susie
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.
"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.
*crickets*
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.
Go to any public housing project in America and see droves of people who won't work.
Read my tagline.
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.
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.
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.
Aha? Ros banez yache benefuce "ironhead."
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