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To: Prokopton

Probably not “big business” but a lot of manual labor, including agriculture, construction and meat packing.


23 posted on 06/06/2007 11:45:15 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (Are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?)
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To: frankenMonkey
Probably not “big business” but a lot of manual labor, including agriculture, construction and meat packing.

These are small potatoes compared to real big business. I don't think the president and Republican Senators would all sell out their Country for lettuce growers and small home builders. I believe the answer must be that they really do want to bring about the end of the U.S. as a sovereign Country. When the Hispanic population gets large enough there will be nothing to stop a union with Mexico.

27 posted on 06/06/2007 11:50:16 AM PDT by Prokopton
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Yep, it’s businesses who want the benefit of being able to pay dirt-cheap wages to employees and push the real costs of these people and their families onto taxpayers.

Without the flood of low-income foreigners, the businesses would have to pay more, and some of them might even have to offer healthcare and other benefits, in order to attract employees.

Yes, because of the dirt-cheap illegals we are able to pay less for lettuce in the supermarket and certain other goods and services, but the benefit is more than offset by the higher taxes for welfare, schools, prisons, police and the giant future timebomb when these people, who pay next to nothing in taxes and social security, start collecting medicare and social security payments and the huge future social costs for their children who will NOT be willing to pick lettuce but will still be high school dropouts to a large extent.

Because the tax and social costs of the flood of illegals are both hidden and have a delayed effect, the true cost-benefit tradeoff is not apparent to most people.


36 posted on 06/06/2007 11:58:49 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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