Gene wrote:
On 8 Sep 2006 08:54:03 -0700, "basskisser" wrote:

Right now in CA the fruit crops are rotting on the trees because there
isn't enough pickers.

Suits me. Let ALL of it rot until the growers are willing to pay a
wage that Americans can afford to work for. It is called the law of
supply and demand... as long as we are playing lawfully. If you want
to turn your head and pretend that only *certain* laws apply... well,
you'll get what you ask for.

The big fact that gets left out of this equation is that illegals
receive about 5-7 times what an American would receive in wage
benefits (not counting taking the extra value of their Social Security
and Social Welfare out of the hands of American families) considering
what they make and expect to take or send back home with exchange
rates being what they are.

There is absolutely NO incentive for an increase in the minimum wage
as long as there is an unlimited supply of manpower willing to live
like refugees and accept the bare minimum wage.

If you want to consider yourself a Liberal Democrat and refuse to
support the American worker.... you are neither.
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If they pay a higher wage, either their profits are gone, or the price
of goods goes up to the consumer so much that they won't buy, and
again, there goes the profits.