“Once the cheap labor is gone, American goods and services will cost more. “
That theory has been shot down so many times you couldn’t have missed it! Forget it! You know the stats. A head of lettuce might cost you a penny or two more.....can you afford that for your country’s sovereignty?
Let’s say Mr. Illegal Alien earns $5.00 an hour picking lettuce. Let’s say he picks 200 heads per hour. (Not much of a lettuce picker, but let’s just say)
That’s a labor cost of 2 1/2 cents per head of lettuce.
Alien has to go home. We have to hire....shudder...an American at twice the price, $10.00 per hour. NOW, it costs, in labor, 5 CENTS per head!
The labor cost DOUBLED! Instead of a $1.00 for a head of lettuce, I’m going to have to pay 2 1/ 2 Cents more!
That’s a 2 1/2% increase, not double, not triple.
At a dozen heads a year, that 30 cents is gonna bankrupt us all!
Don’t pick at the example, you get the point, prices are NOT going to double, our cost of living is NOT going to be destroyed by a loss of illegal aliens, but your jail and hospitals and schools and city just might be saved. I’ll be glad to pay my 2.5 cents to help you out.
see also:http://www.lawatchdog.com/HeadOfLettuceCost.html
Now what might happen....when the lazy citizens of the USA have lost their 2 years of unemployment, they can work these jobs or starve. I don’t care which.
Take a look at this link (please ignore the fact that it gets the guy's middle initial wrong). Note that the page points out that even that slight amount of increase makes an agri-business uncompetitive.
But frankly, I'm not talking about just the 3% price increase from farm workers.
And you answer my question in the last line. You note that American wage expectations must decrease. Thank you. (I'd prefer Americans improve productivity, too.)