🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Weiss wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
> >
>
> --
>
> Adam Weiss

HEHEHEHE!  You're so funny.