You don't see how raising the minimum wages high enough to get those jobs filled would damage the economy?
The cascade effect of that would reach all levels of our financial establishment. Most especially the small business owners, but it would rapidily reach each and every one of us.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not favoring ILLEGAL immigration, but I do favor the President's plan for a quest worker program as the best thing that can be done given all the facts.
Having recently been exposed to the foreign worker, I wonder if the foreign worker guest program should not be changed to foreign worker program or would that be too misleading?
"You don't see how raising the minimum wages high enough to get those jobs filled would damage the economy?"
Actually, I think it would be great for the economy for all industries to start paying at lest minimum wages. Here is why:
1) The consumer economy would increase and this would cause a boost in jobs at other businesses.
2) There would be a boost in federal tax receipts that would reduce the deficit.
3) It would afford more working class families a decent living.
Dont forget, the reason that most of these illegal families can afford the low wages they have is that they violate the law in other ways also. They live multiple families per housing unit. What kind of boost to housing demands would it cause if individual families in these groups of families went out and got their own place to live?
Also, keep in mind that part of Bush goal is to make these laborers legal and then that would allow them to make minimum wage, so that is in keeping with his goals in the first place.
Frankly, I think most business people that hire illegals do not want any change in the status quo and so they will cockroach the Presidents proposals and cause them to fail.