Quote from Larson:
Excellent Idea! More poor and desperate to add to the growing numbers. You are a stooge.
Quote from Eddiefl:
Its all about what side of the business you are in. If you have a strawberry farm and annual workers cost $250,000.00 per year. If they kick out your illegal workers, your cost may go up to $500,000.00 and dear lord you may actually have to pay them benefits and health insurance and crazy things like that. With no guarantee the work quality will stay the same, with the "legals"
haha,,, I dont care how you get the strawberry to the store, if it costs 1.50 one week and 2.95 per bag the next week. guess what.
no more strawberries purchased. So the problem is deeper than you think and opinions are based on where your seat is in the stadium.
All i know is that all illegals leave california next month. Apples, tomatos, veggies would probably double in a couple months. So that is not going to happen and like another guy said. Can we even find Americans who want to pick fruit all day for minimum wage, any young people. Hell no, they are all playing xbox or getting high, or both,
put that in your pipe and smoke it,
EF
Quote from noob_trad3r:
Well it makes sense, export and get rid of our industrial base Then export our knowledge type work (Engineering,programming) to china/india.
Leaving McJobs
Once emptied of superfluous citizens, the U.S. could become a kind of giant Aspen for the small population of the super-rich and their non-voting immigrant retainers. Many environmentalists might approve of the depopulation of North America, because sprawling suburbs would soon be reclaimed by the wilderness. And deficit hawks would be pleased as well. The middle-class masses dependent on Social Security and Medicare would have departed the country, leaving only the self-sufficient rich and foreign guest workers without any benefits, other than the charity of their employers.
Quote from Larson:
I don't live in Calif. and fruit inflation is small price to pay. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, douchebag.
Quote from xtrader0:
If I correctly understand your proposal, you want us to protect a certain class of native born citizens, people who were born in the best country on Earth, the land of opportunity. People who are so special that the highest level of accomplishment they have been able to achieve in their life in this great country is to get a job that any illiterate kid from a 3rd world country can do. You want the country to pay higher prices for goods (effectively a tax) as a result of higher salaries to bank a comfy middle class lifestyle for these people who are unwilling to get an education and be competitive like the rest of us. So basically, you want to take other peopleâs hard earned money to make someone elseâs life easier. Thatâs about as touchy-feely bleeding heart liberal as you get.
I still donât get why the Republican party is getting wrapped around the axle on this one. Are unionized farm workers a demographic that votes for our candidates?