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2011-07-15 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2011-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The south of the border narco-war goes on and on. I might make a suggestion: (1) Control the border and the flow of drugs into the U.S., (2) have the ATF quit letting guns walk across the border to criminals, (3) quit molly-coddling those who are here illegally in an effort to try to curry election favor, (4) reform election laws and enforce them--no voting by illegals with a driver's license, (5) stop wasting valuable tax-payer monies on illegals for every sort of welfare and medical benefit, (6) clamp down on the hiring of illegals in this country--These jobs should go to people are bonafide workers or citizens. That would help the unemployment situation in the U.S. I don't believe the meme (B.S.) that Americans won't do some menial labor. There are plenty of young people graduating from high school every year looking for jobs. They contribute to the unemployment problem. There are plenty of low-skilled workers looking for jobs in the U.S., and (7) tamp down the Soros idea of "open borders" and call it what it is--illegal!

Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-15 08:53|| 2011-07-15 08:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Second the motion, this shit has gone on long enough.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-07-15 09:13|| 2011-07-15 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Too bad, JohnQC. That would make too much sense and you know our politicians can't do that.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-15 11:21|| 2011-07-15 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 There are plenty of Americans who will do menial labor, however, they will be more expensive. A lot more expensive. How much are you willing to pay for citizen picked lettuce? 30 cents more a head isn't going to suffice. How much? There is a price that will get the lettuce picked and the chickens gutted, perhaps it's time to find out what that price is.

Posted by S 2011-07-15 13:06|| 2011-07-15 13:06|| Front Page Top

#5 It is time. I've have been through chicken processing plants albeit a few years ago. Killing, dismembering, and gutting a chicken was partly automated; partly done by humans. At the time I don't recall any Hispanics doing the work--all East Tennesseans. They were glad to have the jobs. I have been through a lot of manufacturing plants in this part of the country and found the same to be true. It is only fairly recently that you see a high concentration of Hispanics doing menial work. I suspect (but don't know for certain) that many of them are illegals who get paid less than minimum wage under the table.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-15 13:55|| 2011-07-15 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem, S, is that we have no idea what Americans are willing to do for what pay, because we've made it illegal to hire them at cost-effective wages.

Repeal minimum-wage and prevailing-wage laws, crack down on illegals, and watch native-born citizens get jobs.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-07-15 17:24|| 2011-07-15 17:24|| Front Page Top

#7 VDH stated in an article that only %5 of so of the cost of agricultural produce is labor and %80 is petroleum products and transportation. the remaining %15 is middle men.

doubling or even tripling the cost of agricultural labor would add only 5-10 cents on the dollar.

Posted by abu do you love 2011-07-15 18:55|| 2011-07-15 18:55|| Front Page Top

#8 "VDH stated in an article that only %5 of so of the cost of agricultural produce is labor and %80 is petroleum products and transportation."

So if we lowered the cost of transportation/petroleum 10% and raised the cost of labor 10% it would be a wash.

Drill here, drill now.

Posted by Barbara 2011-07-15 19:08|| 2011-07-15 19:08|| Front Page Top

#9 "There are plenty of Americans who will do menial labor, however, they will be more expensive. A lot more expensive."

Why?

They don't deserve to be.

The time is rapidly approaching when they'll do it for $5.00 per hour and be happy.

Count on it.

Posted by no mo uro 2011-07-15 19:22|| 2011-07-15 19:22|| Front Page Top

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