Posted on 08/27/2007 4:57:42 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
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No, just 10 extra in the house......in one room.....gotta have SOME privacy : )
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio for President”
B U M P
You are a kind soul...! ;)
I try :-)
I guess we will have to vote for a Democrat next election. My head is gonna explode!
OOOOOoooo, EXCELLENT analogy! :-)
I’m stealing it. You can’t do anything about it, because clearly, they can’t catch all the analogy-lifters!!! ;-)
So you’re saying that the mortgage melt-down is due to anti-immigration activities. It has nothing to do with rising interest rates, but instead is because illegal aliens are being “forced” out of their homes.
Who'da thought it: attack the problem on the demand side, and the "supply side" issue takes care of itself. Amazing.
But really, I think it's pretty damned rude of them. Couldn't they even wait for the @#$!#$ border wall that was supposed to be the only way to solve the problem?
I can’t for the life of me understand how this is a surprise to anyone.
Pols on the left and right damn well knew this would happen, but were willing to sell their souls for votes and/or cheap labor.
The steam engine was invented in the first century AD by a Greek engineer named Heron. Cheap slave labor prevented the invention from being harnessed until 1698.
A California grape grower has pulled up all his grapes and replanted them with grapes that can be picked by machine.
He will employ 1/10th the labor.
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At least they’ll be easier to identify and arrest.
>>Wanna bet the gangbangers and drug runners will still be in AZ when all the others have left?<<
You are absolutely right. And unless the state cuts off all social services (’freebies’) to illegal immigrants, the day laborers will not leave. After all, no home-owner will be fined for hiring a ‘day laborer’ to mow their lawn or clean their house. They will remain to use our emergency rooms, schools, food stamps, etc., and do a little yard/house work on the side for beer money.
The gangs and drug runners will have to be dealt with very harshly, after the others are gone.
The fence must be built!
re: When they disappear, the state will undoubtedly suffer a hit to the economy, especially in housing, which could depress real-estate values in some areas. Some of the immigrants own houses, and they have to sell them fast, which has glutted the resale market in the state.)))
Bah. What about all the money that goes straight out of AZ's economy via remittances to Mexico? That money will stay in the state. And it's crazy to blame the housing market on departing illegals, who typically rent run-down homes and pack them full.
Housing may well become more expensive because the black market labor pool in housing construction will dry up--
“BAnks are going to end up with a lot of mortgages on over valued property, but then the anti immmigrant crowd doesn’t care what happens to the economy. The reduced demand for goods and services will put a lot of citizens out of work or out of business. Here’s some more from the original article.”
Question: Why did the banks loan money to illegal aliens in the first place?
Question: If ‘buy low, sell high’ is the essence of free enterprise, you think that there’ll be a market for the distressed properties in question, and for the secondhand furniture too?
Question: Those ‘undocumented workers’ put a strain on tax-funded institutions like schools, hospitals, fire departments, police departments, jails, parole boards, DSHS, HHS, Centers for Disease Control, and other county and city services. What will be the expected economic impact of the reduction in demand for these services? Will it cost more or less to provide them to ‘legal, documented people’?
Question: What effect will the reduction in illegal immigration have on the status and conduct of legally documented aliens?
Question: What are the likely environmental effects on the relocation of the illegal immigrant community? Will they drive less? What’s the impact on local auto traffic? Mass transit? Waste management?
The false economies of illegal labor forces are pretty sobering once they are examined. You can mitigate the impact of the economic BURDEN of having all of these undocumented, illegal immigrants here if you institute a system that allows foreign nationals to come to the US with full documentation and certain legal rights, work, and then return to Mexico.
You CAN’T do that until they go back home. Good for Arizona. This makes eminent economic sense, and it fixes the problem, for Arizona, without putting any major impact on local law enforcement.
It's only the wrong time to refi if you actually intend to pay the money back. =]
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