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2009-01-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-01-03 08:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It's amazing how hard they will fight to keep a good supply of illegals around. All the while claiming that they are worried about the immigrants.
They are worried about having to pay minimum wage most of the time.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-03 11:51|| 2009-01-03 11:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Not only that, bigjim. They would also have to pay employment taxes, pay overtime in some cases, maybe cough up for some benefits, and even obey OSHA laws.

Gee, what a horrible imposition on these hardworking business owners. My heart bleeds.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-03 12:42|| 2009-01-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Bookkeeping. Actual bookkeeping of legal employees takes a lot of time and effort, dontchaknow.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-03 14:06|| 2009-01-03 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Other than coyote contractors using "day labor" to drywall houses, most businesses aren't really pro-illegal. Many employers pay the same wages and benefits regardless. Sanctuary states like California certainly don't encourage employers to be overly curious about whether an employee's SSN is valid. Arizona can certainly change their law and give the necessary sopeona power. Employers will certainly comply.

Until then the laws are in place I wouldn't expect an employer to demonstrate initiative with regard to illegal enforcement. Having a couple hundred people picketing you business is not the type of advertising that employers want. Not to mention the line of human rights lawyers that would line up to suck the blood out of the facility.

It would be helpful also if the current generation presented a better range of potential minimum wage employees. The smart ones are headed to college. The tough and hardworking ones are headed into the military. The locals that are left are mostly pieced and tatted loafers. Immigrants and the mentaly handicapped are better workers than the majority of those folks who pick up an application at McDonalds.

Posted by Super Hose 2009-01-03 19:27|| 2009-01-03 19:27|| Front Page Top

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