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johnny@. wrote:

> Strong Eagle wrote:
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>>Exactly the point, Mr. Einstein.  Higher wages equate to higher labor costs.  Higher
>>labor costs means it costs more for your chicken, your beef, your vegetables, your
>>yardman, your house, the freeways and streets being built.  You name it... for virtually
>>ANY unskilled or semi skilled job, immigrant labor insures that low income earners such
>>as yourself can afford more than beans and rice and a cardboard home under the freeway
>>overpass.  Duh!  Labor accounts for 70 percent of the cost of just about anything.
>>Immigrants lower labor costs.
>>
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> How can you be so stupid?
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> 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.)

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