Re: Immigration bait and switch
- From: "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:38:53 GMT
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Immigration bait and switch
http://blogs.washingtontimes.com/insiderpolitics/?p=461
Secure America's borders, and then deal with the millions of illegal
aliens
already in the country. What is so hard to understand about that?
Yet the Senate of the United States this week has turned this simple but
obvious equation into a debate on how quickly and easily we can give
millions and millions of illegal aliens a free pass to U.S. citizenship.
Is
being an American citizen really that worthless? Is America really just
another word for cheap labor?
It's been said many times before that a nation that fails to control its
borders has no control over its destiny. And the United States
definitely
has no control over its borders.
I think that is an oversimplification of the issue. Because, no nation
has control over its borders, if what we mean by that term, that you do
indeed control who enters this country.
The end results are increased national security worries, growing crime,
a
largely unwanted seismic cultural shift and depressed wages. While the
latter may be great for the business community, it's a death sentence
for
many working Americans. Sure, the illegals are taking jobs Americans
won't
do, but what we are really talking about here are jobs that Americans
won't
do for those salaries. If the endless flow of illegals was stemmed, then
these businesses would be forced to pay a decent wage.
Well, yes. It is called supply and demand. Someone willing to work for
less dollars means someone else who is not willing to do the same job for
the same number of dollars is not going to work in that particular area.
If you have to pay your workers less, that also means you can charge less
for the products or services you sell. Who pays? Well, of course the
worker pays. Who benefits? Well, of course everyone who buys the
products/services they purchase from that company benefits. But what
kind of jobs are there for the most part? Those at the bottom of the
income scale perhaps? Who has to work for a minimum wage? The colege
graduate, or those most likely with less than a high school degree? And
exactly what is a minimum wage? Do companies pay someone a minimum wage,
if they have lots of experience? I would think not. It is basically an
entry level pay scale, which if you prove yourself in the workplace, you
will soon be making more than the minimum wage. What is the minimum
wage? It is a ponzi scheme dreamed up by special interest and certain
politicians, to make us "feel" that something "good" results. But is
that a fact? Well, let us see. If you raise the minimum wage by say one
dollar an hour, what happens? Well, suddenly everyone who was making the
old minimum wage gets an raise, whether they deserved it or not. But
then what happens. Well, that means someone who use to make just above
the old minimum wage, now finds themselves not making so much more money
as the old minimum wage earner. Now how do you think they feel? And how
would the business react? Well, if they want to keep the more
experienced worker, they better also raise their wages. And if you do
that, you better be prepared to increase everyones wages above them.
Which then translates to the cost of the goods or serices you sell to
increase. Which in turn raises the cost of living for everyone. Which
then results in that new minimum wage not sounding too good because of
the increase in the cost of living. Which in turn creates the
environment where you have to increase the minimum wage...and over and
over agin the upward sprial continues....
Did I miss the part of the Constitution that says Americans have a right
to
cheap goods? Is the American dream all about letting in an unchecked sea
of
cheap laborers?
Well, yes. The Constitution does not say anything about the matter.
As columnist Robert Samuelson wrote recently in The Washington Post
(yes,
The Washington Post), President Bush's guest-worker program is "a
conscious
policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in
Mexico." How about letting Mexico solve some of its own problems? Or has
Mr.
Bush added importing other countries' poverty to America's new duty to
export democracy?
Get as much of an education as you can, and you will most likely never
have to live in poverty.... Certainly, take advantage of that free high
school education that is offered to every American, and that in itself
would solve a major part of the perceived problem...
The politicans.....
The polls show again and again that Americans overwhelmingly want our
borders brought under control. Yet time and again our elected officials
ignore what we want. What gives? Who is running this country anyway?
And you want to accept the illegal alien Mob. Very sad indeed.
Why sad. I have not heard any politician with the clout to get their idea
of what to do about the problem, come up with a solution to the problem. Do
you have a "soultion" that has even the faintest chance of getting through
Congress?
.
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