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To: Joe Hadenuf
We are a nation of laws, just keep repeating that.

I have and it hasn't worked very well for me. Maybe it has for you, if you haven't been paying attention in the past few years (or in the past few weeks when Robert Ray made his presence known, for example.) I hope you and your side keep repeating these mythical mantra while you chew on your delicious apple a day which cost only 69 cents a pound thanks to that illegal immigrant picker from El Salvador. But then, meditation mantras aren't about reality, on the contrary, they're about escaping reality.

55 posted on 04/05/2002 6:27:33 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Revolting cat!
They're not all here picking apples. BTW----did you read that lettuce is up to $4 a head? Here's what one of your non-apple picking illegals was up to:

Man charged in sex crime; girl, 12, may be pregnant

Illegal from Mexico here for two months, and he rapes and impregnates a 12 year old. And what would you bet the taxpayers are paying the expenses for his own 4 kids ---soon to be 5?

64 posted on 04/05/2002 6:37:09 PM PST by FITZ
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To: Revolting cat!
I hope you and your side keep repeating these mythical mantra while you chew on your delicious apple a day which cost only 69 cents a pound thanks to that illegal immigrant picker from El Salvador.

That is quite a grandiose statement. There isn't a direct correlation between the cost of labor used to harvest produce and the final cost of produce at your local supermarket. In other words, if a grower had to start paying his produce pickers $6 an hour instead of the $3 an hour that he had been paying, that doesn't mean that the cost of produce to the consumer would double. By the same token, if the grower was able to start paying his produce pickers $1.50 an hour instead of the $3 an hour that he had been paying, that wouldn't mean that the cost of produce to the consumer would drop by 50%. There are several factors involved in determining the final cost of produce at the supermarket. The cost of labor is just one of them.

79 posted on 04/05/2002 8:00:14 PM PST by usadave
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