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On Topic... What the hell is this adminstration thinking?
Fred Dehl wrote: wrote in oups.com: Think of the money we could save if we turned the security of our southern borders over to undocumented "guest workers", it would get rid of thousands of border patrol people currently sucking the govt. teat for an acutal living wage. How's that border patrol working? Just exactly as well as it is supposed to. A "leaky" Mexican border suppresses wages (and thereby increases corporate profits in the short term) throughout the entire country. Seattle isn't exactly on the Rio Grande, but if I wanted to hire an experienced, often fairly skilled worker for a fraction of the wage demanded by a hard working citizen trying to support a modest house and small family I know exactly where to go on any given day and there will be several dozen to choose from. The fact that Pedro or Manuel is waiting at the curb, toolbox in hand, and ecstatic to work for $10 an hour (without any of the normal nuisances like social security, fringe benefits, workman's comp, or any need to withhold income taxes creating additional administrative costs) means that if Joe Schwartz, graduate of advanced carpentry and framing at Local Community College in 1989 wants to come and pound a few nails as well he better get with the program. If I'm a remodeling contractor reselling the labor to some homeowner for $75 an hour, my gross is a whole lot better if I pay Pedro Velasquez $10 and keep $65 than if I have to pay Joe Schwartz $30 an hour, plus $10 in taxes and benefits, and only get to keep $35 an hour for myself. Bottom line, Pedro works and Joe doesn't- unless Joe is willing to work a lot cheaper than he's used to. If you put the working class in charge of border policies, rather than the privileged class, you'd have far fewer undocumented workers in the US. |
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