Posted on 06/29/2007 9:43:34 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Bingo.
Ping of interest.
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Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
Free enterprise doesn’t mean allowing companies to go outside the country for cheap labor while making it illegal for citizens to go outside the country in search of cheaper medicines.
I don’t know what you would call it but it’s a clear double standard.
I saw a woman on the news who was the owner of a landscaping company out west, in CA, I think. She was going on and on about how she couldn’t find Americans or legal immigrants to do the work so she HAD to hire illegals that would do the work.
She begrudgingly admitted that she started them at $7 an hour. Why would anyone work out in the heat of summer for $7 an hour when they could go to any fast-food chain, restaurant or a retail store and make that much working in the A/C?
As my wife said, she won’t meet the market demands for her labor costs and wants the government to legislate her a way to keep paying lower wages than the market demands.
I believe the business community was more interested in the uniformity of enforcement and the ability to have a guest worker program that they could rely on, but was willing to give a little on the eventual citizenship thing as part of the compromise. The next bill in 2009 won’t be so business friendly, but will be much friendlier to the citizenship part.
Terrific article!! The author hit every nail there is right on the head!
We all know that not all business plays into the illegal labor game and many are suffering from unfair competition the illegal labor rates contribute. The participating members of the “Chamber of Exploitation” are sell-outs.
Vote NO on amnesty for illegal businesses!
If you local taxes dollars are being wasted and misspent, many times you can find that Chamber of Commerce was exploiting the incompetence and crookedness of local pols. It is kind of like welfare for business, but Republicans are not supposed to ever ever make that connection.
“The next bill in 2009 won’t be so business friendly, but will be much friendlier to the citizenship part.”
I agree 100%.
And as bad as that is, it would be tolerable if they’d just close the darn borders. But it won’t happen. This is the backdoor into:
Yes of course. Meanwhile WE pick up the tab on her employee healthcare 'benefits' by providing welfare to her illegal alien employee's wife or live-in girlfriend who stays at home with their 6 or 7 children. Their "family" probably gets $30,000 worth of handouts from the government in the form of "food stamps", healthcare, fuel assistance, and public education while the employer pays her illegal alien employees $7 per hour. Our politicians need to grow a dammed spine and put a stop to this, and I mean NOW!
By the way, did McCain ever pay anyone $50/hour to pick lettuce like he claimed he would because no one would take that job for even that much. I know he had lots of responses.
Strange how GW Bush’s strong sense of wanting to spread democracy doesn’t count in cleaning up the corrupt Mexican government so these folks don’t have to leave home in the first place?
Raise the minimum wage then circumvent it with illegal labor, we get votes from labor and money from business what a great strategy!This how these clowns think they’ll get reelected by playing both sides of the fence never mind that our country’s economy is destroyed.
FANTASTIC bump. The Chamber of Commerce and the Wall Street Journal would bring back slavery if they could just call it by another name.
“It might have been that woman, but there was one landscape company owner who was complaining about not being able to find landscapers even when she was paying up to $20/hour (if I recall correctly). A little digging found out that the $20 was one position for a manager of multiple crews with years of experience, while all the other jobs were at or near minimum wage.”
I believe it is the same woman. I used to have a neighbor who was a landscape architect who headed up landscaping crews. That was 8 years ago and in MS. Guess what they started at? Yep, $7...8 years ago...in northern MS, home of the lowest wages in the nation. He made pretty good money as did his bilingual Hispanic team leader but everyone else made scratch.
This woman is paying people in California today what people in MS were paid 8 years ago. That is sad.
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