[cripplecreek]

"I can make you a prediction, though, that pretty shortly people are going to be knocking on people's doors saying, man, we're running out of workers."

And people will be saying "What do you pay man, i'm a precious commodity man. It's called supply and demand man".

[Pining_4_TX]

Then there are people like me. Now that my children are all grown, I would like to have a part-time job. Since I haven’t been employed outside of the home for years, I probably would be able to make $8 to $10 an hour, at best. However, I would be taxed at my husband’s rate, so between the extra costs involved in my working (clothes, commute, etc.) and the taxes I would pay on the piddling income, I might just about break even.

[Go Gordon]

And people will be saying "What do you pay man, i'm a precious commodity man. It's called supply and demand man".

Yes, lets assume a worker picks 60 heads of lettuce in an hour (far less than actual, but stay with me here). We pay illegal immigrants, what, $3.00 and hour? So, the cost to pick lettuce is about 5 cents a piece (5 cents times 60 = $3.00)

If we no longer had illegals to pick lettuce, lets assume we had to pay someone $20 an hour. The cost of picking lettuce would now be about 33 cents per head. So paying $20 an hour for lettuce picking would add a whopping 28 cents to the cost of a head of lettuce. Big frickin deal.

[RobbyS]

It will take awhile for Americans to break back into the building trades. The contractors are not easily going to give up their lion’s share.