[bray]

Nice try, but the lumber companies cannot find American workers and have tried for 20 years. They can barely keep Mexican labor before they head down the road for easier work. Your exploiting the worker argument sounds vaguely Marxist. How expensive you willing to make a house??

So you are basically for eliminating the lumber industry to get rid of Mexicans. That is not an answer.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[brydic1]

What lumber industry that survives only does so despite the refusal of the RINO and GWB to expose these Green Wackos for what they are. His collaboration with these people and refusal to take up the fight has led to our inability to drill and refine our own oil and harvest our timber.

[piceapungens]

They can't keep Mexican labor eh?

Well maybe the solution should be to just throw the door wide open to anybody.

Apparently us Americans are too damn stupid and lazy to tend our own affairs.

You aren't fooling anybody Bray.

[AuntB]

Nice try, but the lumber companies cannot find American workers and have tried for 20 years.

You're from Oregon and make that nonsense statement?

[kabar]

Nice try, but the lumber companies cannot find American workers and have tried for 20 years. They can barely keep Mexican labor before they head down the road for easier work.

I bet that most of the people in the lumber business are still American citizens. If they offer competitive wages, they will have no shortage of workers. The price of lumber may go up, but that is the way capitalism works.

Your exploiting the worker argument sounds vaguely Marxist. How expensive you willing to make a house??

If you import cheap labor that is outside the legal labor market, you can undercut your competition. Illegals may not be paying income taxes, SS, and are unable to challenge their employers for fear of being deported. That is not fair to American workers who must play by the rules. We used to have slaves in this country and much of it was built around the specious economic justification that they were essential. We don't need to sanction an underclass that will eventually result in the downfall of this country. If short-sighted people like you don't understand the Faustian bargain that is being made for short term profits, you will find out that they are not good for business or the future of this country in the long term.

[snugs]

That is the thing those calling for the Companies to pay decent wages therefore elimenate need for migrant workers are they

a) willing to pay more for their goods

b) will they support therefore heaven forbid a forced minimum wage that they fought so much against to ensure Americans actually are prepared to do the work

Interesting thought.