madmexrva Report This Comment Date: April 15, 2006 08:08PM
this is a farming community on the ass end of the planet with hundreds miles of
farming land and desert were mexican come across to work the farms. Corprate
america will some times truck mexicans or offer them a bonus to get to job site
were the work force is needed. There being smuggled as far as New York to
work.Are you prepared to work these fields for $15.00 an hr starting at 4:am
to3:pm 6-7 days a week?
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 15, 2006 09:08PM
There are many who would be willing to whork any job for $15.00 an hour. My
daughter and her husband just accepted a job here in Arkansas at a farm for
$8.00 an hour and 60 hour per week. So don't just assume locals won't take the
jobs that illegals are doing. If it is a fair wage I am certain there would be
legal people who would take it.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 15, 2006 09:28PM
Yes but not only must they pay legals the 15 an hour, but also workers comp,
benefits, etc. All the red tape and extra costs for hiring legal Americans.
Don't forget, if an illegal gets hurt because of faulty equipment or unsafe
conditions, you don't have to worry about them suing, since they don't want you
sending INS after them.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 12:18AM
I remember the days when the niggers did these jobs! An illegal gets better
health care than most people for free.
gruff Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 02:16AM
I want to go to Dateland.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 02:26AM
94109, it is true employers don't have to pay the extras with illegals but they
and we pay in higher health care costs because the illegals get treated in ERs
and don't pay. They consume much more in resources then they provide in
"cheap" labor. They are not worth the problems. They need to be
shipped back to where they came from.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 01:49PM
Try this in any other country.. "I've seen pictures of your country and it
looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind
changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and
ballots into my native language? Thanks!"
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 05:20PM
Golly, 238240, have you not travelled? Pretty much most of the world speaks
English already.
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 05:21PM
This debate really touches on another topic that no one is mentioning: What
ever happened to the idea that people could eventually start working less, and
having more time for family and society?
The IWW once campaigned for "4 hour days/4 day weeks" ... with no
reduction in pay.
Why should corporate America require more and more people to work 60 and 70 hour
weeks for shite wages? Hiring "illegals" because they can be abused
more? Building crap houses that leak and rot? WTF?
messyflatmate Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 08:48PM
Back in the 70's (iirc) the big concern was what would people do with all their
leisure time. They thought that they would need to train people in how to spend
all their spare time. And that a new type of job would be created, for
professionals to help people deal with this.
What happened to that? We are working longer than ever!
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 16, 2006 10:32PM
On April 16, 2006, 12:18 am Anonymous@119234 said :
I remember the days when the niggers did these jobs! An illegal gets better
health care than most people for free.
damn, 119234 you must be really fucking old !!!
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 17, 2006 12:28PM
I believe the polls run which support the illegals were done in areas of the
country who have very few illegals. They shold try polling in Texas and
surrounding states to see how those people feel about them.
I have also noticed that the illegals try to speak english but the chicanos born
here pretend they can't speak english. Try an experiment I did at the local
fleamarket. Find a group who say the don't speak english and after they walk by
say "you dropped your wallet." then you will see how many of them turn
and look down. Everytime I did it they all looked down then laughed about being
caught.
messyflatmate Report This Comment Date: April 21, 2006 10:55AM
Okay I don't doubt that they pretend not to speak it -- but why ? I can't guess
at the motive. What's it saving?