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Re: [Fwd: Mexican Invasion]

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From: Tracey
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:56
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Joe User wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:59:43 -0700, Adam Weiss wrote:
>
> > johnny@. wrote:
> >
> >> How can you be so stupid?
> >>
> >> That is a bunch of bullshit and you know it.  Prices don't go down
> >> because of cheap labor.  Sears sells shirts made in Bangladesh for the
> >> same price as shirts made in the USA.  Nike uses slave labor and sells
> >> their shoes for over a hundred dollars.
> >>
> >> If they want to better themselves, let them better themselves in their
> >> own country,   We have our own problems, we don't need them.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > You need to separate the cost of goods from the cost of services.
> > Without immigrants, prices for shirts, stereos, etc. probably wouldn't
> > rise - the companies that make them will still have huge sources of
> > cheap labor in third world countries, as you pointed out.
> >
> > What would go up is the cost of yard work, dining at restaurants,
> > construction and home improvements, etc. -  all the things that can't be
> > sourced out accross the world to cheaper labor markets; that must be
> > done right here.
> >
> > Get rid of the immigrants, and you'll still pay $700 for your stereo,
> > but instead of paying $70 for a night at a good hotel, you'll be paying
> > $170.  (some of the biggest employers of cheap immigrant labor are
> > hotels who need big cleaning staffs.)
>
> WTF! What hotels do you dipshits stay at, I lived out of hotels for two
> years and NEVER paid less than 199/night, and that was big corporate
> discount rate.
>
> The hotels, like Sears are rapeing the shit out of consumers, and giving
> the nation away to thrid world trash, enough is enough.

AMEN, BROTHER! AMEN!  You are soo right!
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