Posted on 05/20/2008 12:20:56 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
WACO, Texas, May 20 (UPI) -- Illegal workers spend nearly $1.8 trillion in the United States each year, a Texas research group said.
The Perryman Group said Texas alone would lose 1.2 million illegal workers and $220.7 billion in annual spending if undocumented workers left the country, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday.
Ray Perryman, president of the firm, said the United States needed "comprehensive reform" of its immigration laws.
"If undocumented workers vanished "you would have serious economic upset," Charles Foster, chairman of Americans for Immigration Reform, said this week.
But others disagree.
A Washington, D.C., group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, believes undocumented workers take jobs away from U.S. citizens by accepting deflated wages, the Chronicle report said.
But if the gov. has been LYING to us about this, and there's really 30 million illegal aliens, which is the more credible street number floating around, then that's only $50,000 spent per illegal alien.
And that number is actually quite believable.
“UPI Reporter Fails 4th Grade Math
1.8 trillion divided by 12 million illegals = $150,000/year
Lawn maintenance and service industry jobs don’t pay that much.”
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Mercy! lol
$50 k would be correct for 30 million workers, but, only about 1/3 of them work. There must be 90 million of them?
( Could be a couple trillion )
As if there aren't millions of others waiting in line to replace them....people who actually obey the rules. What these people fail to realize ..or know it but think us ignorant citizens don't...is that there is no shortage of people who want to immigrate to this country....and act as if law breaking fence jumpers are all we can get....what a load.
Our own domestic criminals would spend more too if all the prisons were opened up.
...they must think we are all ignorant as ice plant.... it would be funny but they actually are trying to sell this crap as serious factual information....
Lawn maintenance and service industry jobs don't pay that much.
Even if they worked full time on John McCain's $50/hour lettuce farm they would only get $104,000. I guess they either have a second job or get time and a half for overtime and weekends. Maybe double time for cinco de mayo.
Illegal workers spend nearly $1.8 trillion in the United States each year,
But they don’t say how much of the 1.8 trillion they pay for. I would suspect the taxpayers pick up the bill for 1.7 trillion of it. (In the form of health care, education, and welfare)
Fist; these people are not "illegal workers". They are illegal aliens!
Second; even if the $1.8T were true (which it is not), that money is not created wealth. If all the illegal aliens disappeared today, the money would still be in the U.S. and circulating. It doesn't vanish with the illegal aliens.
Third; what will vanish with illegal aliens vanishing is the tremendous direct costs "We, The People" pay supporting them through all levels of taxes, higher insurance premiums, higher hospital costs, court costs, prison expenses, etc.
Fourth; it is a basic principle of our society that one does not benefit from one's crime(s). By their very presence in the U.S., illegal aliens' every act is a part of a continuing crime.
All other claims and studies are nothing more than blowing smoke up the skirt of Lady Columbia.
...first of all you last name has to end in "ez".... and do you have a serviceable sombrero in your hat closet?
“Even if they worked full time on John McCain’s $50/hour lettuce farm they would only get $104,000. I guess they either have a second job or get time and a half for overtime and weekends. Maybe double time for cinco de mayo. “
lol
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So I called and a Mexican showed up at the door with a lawn mower.
From the deepest darkest reaches (some argue all the way past the elbow) of the rear human anatomy comes VERY BIG, HUMUMUNGUS, GIANT, GARGANTUAN, COLOSSAL and very rounded numbers.
Here is the original article/study.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5789885.html
Some interesting comments, perhaps you’d like to leave yours.
This is the source of the study:
http://www.perrymangroup.com/
It is definitely a joke..10% of GDP...pfft.
Right. If they go home, the money stays HERE. It’s not like they brought it with them from Mexico !
How stupid can these writers be?
Oh, not stupid, they have an AGENDA. So the question is, how gullible are the readers, and what do we do about it.
1) If there are 12 million illegals then they would have to spend $150,000 each to spend $1.8 trillion per year.
2) If there are 20 million illegals they would have to spend $90,000 each to spend $1.8 trillion per year.
Landscaping, ag labor, etc., must be more lucrative than I thought.
$1.8 trillion.....
And that’s just the bar tab!
Population of 300 mil. Their stats use 12 mil illegals. Divide 2 trillion (rounded up) by 12 million.
These people truly think we are idiots.
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