Posted on 01/07/2004 10:51:13 AM PST by xsysmgr
Uh that's the employer's purpose, to put out the best product in the market at the lowest possible price, unless you are believer in Hillary economics.
Uh psedo-Buchanan trogdude, GW Bush even though not born in Texas spent most of his life there, even became Governor, and didn't institute an income tax.
Think Snow, Shays etc.
No kidding. What he's saying is that there are jobs that Americans won't do for less than the cost of living.
Its true...
I will give you perfect example too. In Marin County California every day you drive down Anderson or Bellam in San Rafael and find hundreds of hispanics looking for work. They stand in the sun and the rain, it matters not. They openly advertise there desire to work, to do any work, every day by there mere presence.
5 or so miles away across the bay in Richmond, you can find a similar scene, but looks are decieving. Here the streets are full of the unemployed, sitting on corners, hangin out at the liquor store. This community of African Americans choose to spend their time loitering for the sake of loitering.
Across my entire memory, I can never recall packs of African Americans, or White guys for that matter, standing on the street corners to hopefully cop a job from some homeowner or contractor in Marin. Never ever.
Explain to me how it is that Americans never stand on the street corner for the opportunity to get behind the wooden end of a shovel?
For the record...I am against blanket amnesty...
Think Snow, Shays etc
Yeah right, like Snow or Shays would give the finger to the UN or sign a PBA ban.
That's it in a nutshell. Karl Rove and GWB are buying votes once again, at the expense of law abiding Americans.
Because standing on the corner looking for a job implies that you are willing to work for an employer who will illegally pay below-the-minimum wage, illegally not pay taxes, not pay any benefits etc...
Legitimate employment seekers use the internet, newspapers or other means to find legal employers.
Sure thing.
First off, guys standing on street corners to push shovels get paid well over minimum wage. In my neck of the woods, the MW is 6 and change. These street folk demand 10 and more.
Second, hiring a person off the street 9 times out 10 is for a very short duration. Last I checked you don't even need to report income less than 500 annually.
Third, benefits are for long term workers. If a street worker turns out to be a good catch, these people are typically assimilated into the organization and eventually win the benefits(provided they have papers).
Fourth, any employer who is succesful knows that seriel street hiring to avoid taxes and benefits is a losing proposition. Training costs money and is an investment to the business. They don't hire and fire and piss money down a rathole training people over and over again to do the same job.
Lastly...please tell me your joking that construction, type laborers should use the internet to seek employement? That was the best laugh all day
That said there is no denying that his excuse for a domestic policy for the most part mimics that of a lefty dem.
We already are aren't we? Especially in the border states.
This issue is the product of liberal handout policies. Not foreign born workers producing in our economy.
There is nothing wrong with welcoming foreign labor. There is everything wrong with socialist handout programs.
Sounds like your mixing apples and oranges. The causal relatsionship isn't that of foreign labor = subsidy....the causal relatsionship is liberals = subsidy...
Keep your eye on the ball.
Well...thats a problem with our system...not the Hispanic workers. The fact is that there are gazillions of natural born citizens who will do that day in and day out anyway, ie Gorons and Deaniacs
And I am not so sure the liberals can count on a rubber stamp from these folks either. They are a god fearing people rich with family values and morals...
Only time will tell there.
Let's see how many Americans show up for the job.
That's why Juan is here. And he doesn't bitch. And he sends money home to Mexico.
What do you object to - the "little" or the "Vermont".
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