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"Adam Weiss" <aw722@blockspam.org> wrote in message
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> johnny@. wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >>
> >
> > 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.)
>
> --
>
> Adam Weiss
>
> --

Do we need our population to double in 30 years in order to have cheap
motels?  Where do these illegal aliens disappear to that requires another
million or more a year to come in and replace them?  Wouldn't a "guest
worker" program that was well regulated and required workers to have health
checks and papers be preferable to the current anarchy?   I would think
so -- and when the guest worker is done working at the motel or
restaurant -- they would go back to their country of origin with money to
take back with them.








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