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This is a big myth. Companies do not hire cheaper workers, then slash prices. Sorry to say, but companies are not out there making sure they get you the lowest price possible. They are concerned with profit, so they lower the price for labor and keep the difference. I see no difference in the price for food, do you? Everything still costs the same, but farmers are now able to use cheap labor instead of being creative and coming up with some sort of invention like the cotton gin. You think this is good for America? One of the things that really bothers me about all this is the cultural impact. We seem to be saying that we are above doing physical labor. I can think of few things in life that better taught me the value of money and a hard day's work than physical labor. Not only are you denying that kind of experience to our youngsters, you are also blacklabling it as something only 'Mexicans' do.

[nanny]

Thanks for pointing out things are not cheaper since the illegals flocked in. It is not cheaper - that is a myth that some who can't dig their own stumps would like to believe.

Now my husband is an old man - but he would never admit two Mexican men could do what he couldn't.

Now some people in this country think they are above manual labor and don't allow their children to do it either. That is a pity. I wonder if anyone realizes how many young people have put themselves through college working at McDonalds, or doing manual labor? A lot.

Another aspect of all this cheap labor for agriculture - there is and will be very little need for advances in mechanical answers to farm labor. Why buy an expensive machine - when you can have your employees subsidized by the taxpayers.