[FITZ]

please do not tell me that you mow your own lawn! i, too, do all of my own work. but nationally, as the zoe baird embarrassment proved, american professionals do hire a lot of illegals.

I don't mow my lawn, I don't have one ---it's not really practical out where I live. Yes I know people who have cleaning ladies and gardeners ---and like one co-worker proudly informed us ---her cheap maid got sick ---it looked like something serious so she dumped her off at the county hospital and got another maid right away. That actually did happen --and it shows what most of the problem is ---the taxpayers must subsidize the cheap labor others have ---either because they're too lazy to make their own beds and mow their own lawns or corporations like the higher profits they get by having cheap labor they can let taxpayers provide health care benefits and the rest.

[liberalnot]

yes!

and, did you see my point to you earlier about the guy in san diego who called in angry to the john and ken show on radio 640 kfi?

this guy identified himself as an owner of a tony roma's, and was angry that john and ken were attacking governor grey davis, whom they call governor joe davis, because that is his birth name.

after much nonsense, he finally admitted that he was angry at john and ken because he feared the state of california forcing restaurants to pay health care costs!

he said, i cannot afford to pay my employees' health care.

isn't that part of the problem? on the one hand, this business owner wants to part take of the cheap illegal labor, but on the other, he wants to pass on their health care costs to you and me!