Posted on 01/21/2008 11:48:53 AM PST by mdittmar
After MD gets rids of the illegals, it will work to make sure the businesses leave as well as higher taxes and prohibitive business environments take their toll.
Viva la revolucion in the communist counties of Maryland!
“I would estimate I’ve lost at least 10 to 20 percent of my workforce” in the five Arizona hotels he runs with Southwest Hospitality Management”
Awwww..
Po’ Wittle fella...
Just PAY MORE, and you’ll have all the emloyees you’ll ever need...
Why do these media-types not understand the SIMPLEST of economic principles?
They are opening a new Walmart Supercenter in the Atlanta metro area and had 10,000+ applicants for the 300-350 expected openings. They don't even have to pay that well.
Mr. Foster, two lines down in this story, shows this old canard as the lie it is.
I suspect there are these reasons his phone rings constantly everytime his business grows and he needs to add another worker:
Even though the place was full, it was cleaner than most of the brand names where we've stayed.
ping
They ARE paying well... By Mexican standards.
You're breaking the law by hiring illegals, nimrod.
Aiding and abetting used to be a crime.
Bttt
This is the reality here. Any anti-illegal alien talk is just Republican pipe dreams.
Should MD pass this law, employers will have to pass on increased costs to their customers adding more burden to the citizens of the state who suffers from one of the highest cost of living locations in the United States.
Sorry, I can't feel sorry for him. There are large numbers of unemployed Navajo, Hopi and Apache Indians who live in the area around Flagstaff and Payson that could use the jobs that those illegals are taking. They can put those employers in jail for all I care.
If states do these piecemeal employer targeted laws, it will only take a handful of states not to pass such laws to have a detrimental effect on those that do. Businesses that have become addicted to illegal alien employment will relocate to illegal alien friendly states and take the jobs for the legals working there with them.
Won't mention the name of the Golf Course.
For those who don't know Wayne Gilchrest is a long time Republican Congressman from the Eastern Shore, and a small, but populous, part of the western shore of MD. The poultry industry and a fair amount of truck farming, employing large amounts of illegal immigrants (I know because I live there) are a large part of the economic base.
It is a good bet that a significant, probably overwhelming, majority of the taxpaying constituency of Mr Gilchrest would prefer that illegal immigrants be addressed the way they are supposed to be, and the way the law says they should be, that is, excluded from taxpaid US benefits and sent home.
But being the long time politician, Congressman Gilchrest, who I have voted for in the past, and even talked to, knows exactly what he can get away with relative to the support that he gets from corporate agriculture, (Perdue, Tyson, etc.) versus the amount of active and informed concern of the average Joe Constituent.
There is no more classic picture of what is going on across the country than Wayne Gilchrest's play of the public, versus principle, to stay elected.
A number of years ago, about the start of the Clinton episode, Congressman Gilchrest, at least claimed, that he canvassed the Eastern Shore and found that the majority of voters would rather have the US budget balanced than have taxes reduced. The implication being, although he did not specifically say this, that he would go along with tax hikes . The Newspapers reported his survey in this limited manner (with no remonstrance from him). Nothing was ever said, or presented, to his constituency, about "balancing the budget" by reducing federal spending.
Again this was a perfect example about what is going on across the country.
It was about this time that it became evident to me, and I was never inclined to be "political", that the politicians, Republican or Democrat, are truly deceitful people; and the voting public, though most are certainly limited in vision, are never adequately presented all sides; purposely. The nature of a politician is to deceive the people, through half truth, like lawyers, in order to keep their privileges. That is the kind of people who run for office (except maybe Fred Thompson and a few others).
We now live in the district of Congresswoman Thelma Drake, also a Republican. She is exactly, and I mean exactly, like Wayne Gilchrest. She also represents an agricultural district of thousands of illegal immigrants. And she has no more principles than a Wall Street stockbroker, other than you must vote for me to keep the "Democrats" out. There is simply NO way that any real conservative who believes in the responsibility of the individual to face his own decisions in life, away from the tyrrany of behavioral government, who believes the laws are there to support him, can ever support representatives like this. And thus they are losing money like a broken dike.
A friend of mine, a little older and wiser, has consistently said at least you know what the Democrats stand for, out and out Communism.
As a voting public, Americans are not too bright: they read and believe daily the biased "window to the world" of the bigoted Media, they do not understand the Cost of freedom, they vote for totally sinister arrogant a**holes like Hillary Clinton, they look to Hollywood as vicarious experience, they elevate juveniles, who have never owned a business, been to war, or raised a family, as the fount of wisdom, they move through life like a wave of bicamerals, they consider their gonads as the high point of excitement. But at least, at the very least, there should be some politicians that deliver the picture.
I voted for GWB twice, that was the choice the CFR gave us.
So some Marylanders worry about businesses fleeing the state along with the illegal invaders? Gee, how about some compensatory measures, such as cutting corporate and sales taxes, rather then raising them, next time?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
>Won’t mention the name of the Golf Course.<
If it’s the truth, why not?
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