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Strong Eagle wrote:
> 
> 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.

Are we talking about Legal Immigrants here, or are we discussing ILLEGAL
ALIENS?

Ah, we're talking about ILLEGAL ALIENS, because as a rule, Legal Immigrants
get paid exactly what a citizen would be paid for the sort of work you
describe, Minimum Wage.

and you are either ignorant of economics or maybe just not too bright:
America became a world power because America invented and marketed
Agricultural Technology. 

If labor prices rise to any reasonable level -- one at which a citizen could
make a living -- then instead of depending on the imported misery of
throwaway smuggled lives, Industry would invest in developing automation
which was much more cost-effective than any living being could hope to be.
It's why we don't have slaves; machinery is a lot more economical,
regardless of the morality of slavery. Um but that's right, now we _do_ have
slaves! They're called ILLEGAL ALIENS and the laws which apply to the rest
of us are conveniently overlooked so that people like you can believe that
"savings in labor costs" will be passed all of the way down to you, the
ultimate consumer. Well, let's just say that any cost savings wind up in the
accounts of the corporate CEOs, not in your grocery bill, not even in the
accounts of the farmers who are forced to hire illegals because people like
you won't insist in enforcement of the health, safety, and labor -- not to
mention immigration -- laws passed to protect all Americans. 


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