Posted on 04/21/2006 5:20:33 AM PDT by kinghorse
Just another cost of doing business, eh?
Better yet just close down any business found to be employing illegal aliens and allow their law abiding competitors to benefit from the additional business.
at least the playing field is levelled and the govt gets a cut of the law breaker's profits.
Unless this doofus, Robert Crowe is prepared to argue that the criminal illegals were dragged kicking and screaming onto buses to perform forced labor, his gratuitous marxist crap has no effect on me.
"On the backs of" is no longer an effective metaphor, unless perhaps I can borrow it for a second and suggest that the company's profits may have been earned "on the backs of' the American taxpayer...
What an empty phrase! No agenda here...
Good find. With a vote, we'd soon find out about the marxist roots of this migration. It's not your father's cuban elite coming to set up shop. It's the opposite. The elite's pushing out the trouble from south of the border.
As for "leveling the playing field" that should not be the Gov't's mission in life. I don't think we need the Gov't any more complicit in benefiting from illegals. What would result would be plenty more illegals with the Gov't skimming the profits off the top by selling "Get out of Jail Free cards".
IFCO just didn't buy themselves the right kind of politicians...er, insurance. ;)
"at least the playing field is levelled and the govt gets a cut of the law breaker's profits."
No, not really. It just provides additional incentives not to get caught. The businesses that we're talking about are unethical, by definition. They should be treated as such, and the fines should be in line with that.
You'd be singing a different tune if you were a competitor that employed American citizens and was run out of business by someone employing, and underpaying illegals.
Something to consider...next time you hear the phrase "jobs Americans won't do" think "jobs Americans won't do don't need doing." It will change the perspective on the debate entirely...
Please note, this (both figures) is above minimum wage in my state. And, this is a job I would do! Course, I'm not willing to move to Houston, I think they have their hands full of visitors!
Envy and Jealousy need to be in the 10 commandments.
Those poor immigrant workers oppressed by capitalism are so oppressed that they are able to buy large homes in my middle class suburb.
And the white and black trash who are still renting and can't even make their SSI check stretch to pay the rent on time are certain that those lousy immigrants are "stealing" jobs that non-immigrants really DO want.
We can't have it both ways. Either these immigrants are profiting from coming here, or they're not. Arguing out of both sides on one's mouth is not very convincing.
Why wouldn't they simply set up a "maquiladora" operation on the Mexico side... I mean they are so close to the border, they could do the same thing legally.
This controversy could boost sales of the next issue of Pallet Enterprise by half a dozen copies or more.
These must be all those jobs that the Nawlins refugees won't do.
Envy is.
"Thou shalt not covet..."
It was *1,187 people* that were arrested in the raids.
What I've been trying to find are the details of a teaser on our local TV station yesterday that I didn't stick around to hear the upshot of - they said after the arrests, all of them went home. The closest thing I've found to that statement is that 6 of the 7 executives arrested here and in New York got out of jail on varying amounts of bond.
I'm positive that at least a few of the illegals themselves who were in a federal detention center here are still there, or were as of yesterday evening, because their mothers and girlfriends were on the news protesting about it, things like their not being allowed to take needed medications into some of the men and stories like that.
Son if you're embarking on an investing career, one word - pallets.
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