The jobs that flow out of this day-laborer hiring spot — and from thousands of others around the state, some as informal as a street corner — are a pillar of California's economic strength.
Thank God that I am willing to pay more in taxes so the "pillars of California's economic strength" can continue to flourish.
But if he is injured on the job, he will go to the local emergency room, who will not turn him away, and his lack of insurance means that the taxpayers of California will have to pay for his injuries.
I had the opportunity to talk to a Chile Doctor who spent a half hour trying to tell me why it was essential that the US let in unskilled labor into the country, how it was morally indecent for us to forbid them because they wanted a better life and how dare we deny them that
I told him that the United States did not need an a large pool of unskilled laborers from foreign countries. I also had a tough time explaining to him about the welfare state, taxes, and the direct effect it had on our economy.
No, he rejected my arguments out of hand. It was our (the US) moral obligation to open our borders and allow all who want to come come - skilled or not.