Re: Don't you just love America?

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From: ssence
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:51

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>> True enough.  HOWEVER, perhaps if there were not so many illegals
>> willing to do these types of jobs, employers would offer a higher
>> (more reasonable) pay for this type of work and the 'non illegals'
>> would be willing to do it.  I could be wrong, but it is something
>> worth thinking about.
>
> Depends on the elasticity of the demand.  Thompson seedless grapes
> aren't really very good, but when their standard price was roughly
> the same as bananas I'd buy them.  When the workers started getting
> paid more the price went up to roughly the same as peaches. Decades
> went by before I bought grapes again, and then only rarely -- they
> still aren't very good.  Some things just aren't worth more than they
> already cost.

But YOUR wages would probably have increased in tandem, so you could still
afford those grapes.

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From: "ssence" <mel2000@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Don't you just love America?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:51:11 -0500
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