🚀 go-pugleaf

Yes, but only if the borders were well regulated as well. Otherwise, you're
still going to have unwashed hordes pouring over them.

stvfrmco wrote:

> "Adam Weiss" <aw722@blockspam.org> wrote in message
> news:80E89542254BC6D7.7D13FCDB3A3CAA5F.E2F664C03DCD7A17@lp.airnews.net...
> > 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.
>
> >
> > "What a trip.  Is this really happening?"
> >
> > "No my friend.  It's a crazy cocktail of Franz Kafka and Mark Twain"
> >