Invite in 20 million illegals to take their jobs and lower wages of remaining jobs!
Illegals may be working for lower wages now, but has anyone considered who will be taking their jobs once they are given amnesty?
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so we have someone to do the work no one else wants to do.
We still need some poor slobs, non union preferably, so we have someone to do the work no one else wants to do.
Other than rock star, video game tester, and professional bass fisherman pretty much everything is a job that "no one else wants to do".
I say that tongue-in-cheek but the reality is that there are VERY few people would would continue working for a living, regardless of what their profession happens to be, if they were to win a $1 billion lottery jackpot tomorrow.
People don't go to work because they love going to work, they go to work because they need to put food on the table, clothes on their kids' backs, and keep a roof over the family's head.
The problem with this country, and our need to (illegally) import cheap foreign labor, hinges on the fact that once someone's earning power falls below a certain level we offer them an easy out.
They can either continue doing unskilled, boring, menial, strenuous, unskilled labor for $300 a week, or we'll just cut them social safety net benefits of $750+ a week in "disability" benefits because they have "back pain" (or some equally nebulous medical condition that can't be definitely diagnosed, or definitively disputed).
Take away the safety net and tell all our dead wood that they either need to sink or swim and there will be a line at the unemployment office a mile long of people would would MUCH rather pick tomatoes in the hot sun than starve to death under a bridge.
Contrary to popular opinion human beings don't NEED smartphones, flat screen TVs, Cadillac Escalades, premium cable packages, Phillie Blunts, or the latest Michael Jordan shoes.
We've somehow come to believe that this is a minimum acceptable standard of living that every American should enjoy but it's really a fantasy.
What human beings NEED is about 2000 calories a day, drinking water, a relative dry place to live with an average ambient temperature of around 65 degrees, and a will to live.
Nature provides the latter and people should have to work, no matter how hard, undesirable, or demeaning that work may be, for the rest of it.
Everything else they're able to earn is just cake, but nobody, least of all society, owes it to them.
if no one wants to do it the wages will go up until someone does want to do it. This is called the law of supply and demand
Wrong. The jobs will move to a country where there are people that will work for the wages paid just as has occurred in many manufacturing sectors -.
why would the jobs move if American wages, taxes, transportation, proximity to markets, etc etc were competitive?
James972 said:if no one wants to do it the wages will go up until someone does want to do it. This is called the law of supply and demand
.. if you knew this, then why did you state the following:
because it is true, if you disagree please say why
You're contradicting yourself from one post to the next, and that I cannot explain or say why. Do you even see that?
for 3rd time: because it is true, if you disagree please say why rather than try to change subject
Illegals may be working for lower wages now, but has anyone considered who will be taking their jobs once they are given amnesty?
We still need some poor slobs, non union preferably, so we have someone to do the work no one else wants to do.
if so why so afraid to show exact quotes????????????They are diametrically opposed to each other
Those jobs that you say no one "wants" to do....
I can imagine that there are lots of jobs people would rather not do....but if they want to eat, they get off their ass and do them
And they would be more willing to do them if the pay was higher....and the pay would go up if there weren't illegals willing to do it for the lower wage
How many jobs are like that?
With 12 million illegals lowering wages....we don't know
But sure wouldn't mind finding out.....
Those jobs that you say no one "wants" to do....
I can imagine that there are lots of jobs people would rather not do....but if they want to eat, they get off their ass and do them
And they would be more willing to do them if the pay was higher....and the pay would go up if there weren't illegals willing to do it for the lower wage
How many jobs are like that?
With 12 million illegals lowering wages....we don't know
But sure wouldn't mind finding out.....
if so why so afraid to show exact quotes????????????
There are obviously 'some' jobs that are kinda no one wants to do.
if so why so afraid to show exact quotes????????????
See post #9.
Posts do not vanish simply because they are on another page.
Invite in 20 million illegals to take their jobs and lower wages of remaining jobs!
I would be interested to see a comparison of the effect of "illegals" on jobs versus the effect of outsourcing to China. I have a feeling the effect of the latter dwarfs that of the former, since immigrants at least live and spend money in America, but admittedly that's just my suspicion.Invite in 20 million illegals to take their jobs and lower wages of remaining jobs!