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Article #8649Re: Don't you just love America?
From: Strong Eagle
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:09
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:09
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"Dave C." wrote: > > > > Or it means that there are 20 illegal aliens doing a job that 20 > > citizens are unwilling to do ... how many citizens do you see working > > in the fields to harvest the lettuce that goes on your Big Mac? > > > > Probably none. Do you know why that is? It's because the wages are very > low. Why are the wages so low? Do ya think the overabundance of illegal > immigrants has anything to do with that? Nawwwwwww . . . couldn't be. We > all know illegal immigrants are really GOOD for the local job market, right? > > Seriously . . . if every illegal immigrant were to suddenly disappear from > the face of the earth, suddenly there would be (I imagine) a terrible > shortage of (for example) farm workers in the U.S. Then supply and demand > kicks in, and wages go up for all jobs. And suddenly that job harvesting > lettuce doesn't look so bad to some of the citizens who would thumb their > noses at the same job while the illegal immigrants were doing it. > > I have nothing against immigrants. If you want to come here, welcome to the > U.S. Just try to follow our laws getting here, OK? -Dave And when wages go up, the price of lettuce goes up. And when the lettuce goes up... and the tomatoes... and the wheat in the bread... and the beef in the patty... all made by cheap labor... when all of this goes up, the price of the burger goes up, and sales go down. When sales go down, layoffs occur. Expensive labor hurts the economy, not helps it.
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