ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, ANOTHER CODE WORD TO HIDE WHAT WE ARE REALLY DOING
Face facts everybody, what we have with our _________ (fill in the blank) "guest worker" program is slavery. Back in the bad old Civil War days the Southerners called the Northerners "wage slaves," pointing out the hypocrisy of Northern factories hiring only dirt cheap foreign immigrant labor who couldn't even speak English so they could fuel their economy. Sure, we don't tie our modern slaves to a single plantation, clothe them, feed them whatever substandard food we choose, or physically abuse them, but the low wage "illegals" are wage slaves of the modern era. Our wage slaves.
We pay a bunch of near starving Mexicans or Central Americans the absolute minimum wage, a wage too low to sustain them in our cities, or warehouse them while they are on ranches and farms. We pay them poverty wages to make our clothing in sweat shops, clean our cars in car washes for $8, and do our janitorial work in the fancy hotels where we can get drunk and play golf in splendor. They live two or three families to a small apartment just like our great great grand parents had to do at the turn of the last century.
How much would our food cost if the harvesters were paid $10 per hour plus benefits? Here's an example: pure Kona Coffee runs around $24 per pound because the Hawaiian coffee workers are paid as much as $200 per day and all get benefits. Colombian and Brazilian coffees cost less than $6 per pound because Colombian and Brazilian Indians get the lowest possible wage and all the cocaine they can snort.
If our wage slaves were paid $10 per hour plus medical what would our bread cost? Our fruit? Our hotel stays?
We are pretending. We are doing what we used to do in the bad old days but covering it up with the new code words so everybody can feel good about themselves. Illegals are our slave class, they keep our food cheap, our clothing cheaper, and our cars all bright and shiny.
They also keep our consciences bright and shiny so we can imagine that a white and loving God will love us and welcome us into Heaven.
For a good POV that is different, visit VDARE. They have some good stuff.
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If our wage slaves were paid $10 per hour plus medical what would our bread cost? Our fruit? Our hotel stays?
Bread and hotel stays would probably cost less, as these items did just ten or fifteen years ago, before the Mexican tidal wave of illegales really hit.
Yes indeed kids, the price of most things are more expensive, not less expensive, than they used to be. Restaurant meals cost more now than they did back then.
TV sets and personal computers and other stuff they sell at Best Buy costs less than they used to?
Exploited Latino workers have nothing to do with electronic goods.
Why are most goods and services more expensive now? Among other reasons, the presence of tens of millions of no-skill Latinos in the US cause the price of health care and other social services to increase -- US taxpayers ultimately subsidize those cheap wages.
Tens of millions of additional gasoline users, even if they are individually piteously poor Jesuses and Marias, contribute to the demand for gasoline and thereby drive gasoline prices up.
One of the effects of the immigration tidal wave is to cause price inflation, instead of deflation, in the US.
Figure it out, Howie.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
Colombian and Brazilian coffees cost less than $6 per pound because Colombian and Brazilian Indians get the lowest possible wage and all the cocaine they can snort.
so tell me, what are Americans supposed to do about that?
Should we:
(a) Pay a lot more for Brazilian or Colombian coffee, in hope that the workers down there will share some of the wealth?
(b) Send more foreign aid to Brazil and Colombia?
(c) Stop importing Brazilian or Colombian coffee?
(d) Try to eradicate the cocaine business?
or
(e) Encourage poor Latinos to help themselves by growing more dope?
Please tell us, Howie.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
Some of you guys let your prejudices get in the way of facts. The only fact about the $200 per day coffee pickers and the minimum wage pickers is that the more expensive to pick coffee is much more expensive. Period.
Were we to pay our "pickers" a living wage our prices would go up today, not compared to some mythical yesterday. If we would cut off immigration at the border wages on the farms and in the hotels would go up because their would be fewer people compteting for an increasing number of jobs. My observation stands: we have slaves doing the dirty work for us and we will continue to have them until employing illegals is stopped.
Were we to pay our "pickers" a living wage our prices would go up today, not compared to some mythical yesterday.
Questions:
(a) So you are im favor of raising the minimum wage inside the US to $10 or an hour?
(b) It is Ok with you if prices thereby go up? If so, have you cleared that with the IBD editorial page writers? ;0]
(b) How would you enforce this minimum wage law, and prevent exploited Latinos from being hired and paid "off the books"?
What do I predict? I predict that there may be a real estate and construction downturn inside the US, and the American Establishment which rules us may then discover that "we" don't need quite so many undocumented workers no mo'.
A construction slump may be the only real near term hope for diminishing the flood of illegales into the USA.
--david.davenport.1@netzero.com
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Xiaoding, part of the propaganda about hordes of Latinos coming here is that they are doing jobs Americans won't do, and they thereby make life better for all Americans.
My reply is, America seemed to have an adequate supply of restaurants, hotels, and motels fifteen or twenty years ago, before the immigration flood really got going. Furthermore, prices were lower then.
Houses definitely cost less back then. I think that food did, too, in general.
My inference is that tens of millions of additional people residing inside the US is a contributing cause of price inflation.
All these additonal cheap workers have also helped destroy American unions' bargaining power.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
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