🚀 go-pugleaf

Joe User wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:59:43 -0700, Adam Weiss wrote:
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>>johnny@. wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>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.


Better get ready to be paying $399 a night for those same hotels, 
asshole, once they have to pay unionized workers $14 an hour to clean 
the rooms instead of giving recent immigrants $5 to do the same.


> 
> The hotels, like Sears are rapeing the shit out of consumers, and giving
> the nation away to thrid world trash, enough is enough.
> 





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