Doug Kanter wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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It's not??? Are you ready to pay 3 times more for your food? What
portion of
your budget goes for food? Multiply by 3 and tell me how quickly you'd
be in
your boss' office looking for a massive raise, along with all of your
coworkers.

Ah! So what is it then? In this circle jerk of an economic discussion,
on the one hand I have you guys on the left complaining about the
substandard wages that the "working poor" are being paid. Then on the
other hand, you complain that if we pay people are "reasonable wage"
that the increase in costs would be too much for consumers to bear. You
use this as some sort of loose justification for remaining complicit in
the illegal immigrant labor practices. Yet we are doing nothing more
than forstering and encouraging a "slave labor" class of worker. Mark
talks about the "slave class" of people doing menial jobs, and how
idealogically wrong it is, yet neither one of you can resolve the issue
of cheap goods versus the elimination of the "slave class". You can't
have it both ways. Which do you want?

Well, then the simplest solution is simply to focus on the fact that the
people are breaking the law.

Then you and I are in agreement on this point then.

That way, the responsibility can be pushed off
onto someone else.

Is that how the left works? All too good at identifying problems, but
falling far short on solutions?

Dave