Comment from TheIron
Time: December 14, 2006, 2:01 pm

So, I run a S.S # through the gov’s website and it says it’s good - and the next day another employer in Californa runs that same number for his new employee and it says it’s good. Who’s got the right card with the right employee? Nobody knows.

There are no checks and balances - a “good” social could be being used by multiple illegal immigrants all over the country and the employer is none the wiser.

And another thing - I am just tired of hearing that America will take these jobs, like gutting chickens, packing meat and picking lettuce - if the wage was doubled. Sure we’d have plenty to do the work at $14.00 an hour.

The thing is are we as a nation willing to pay $5.00 a pound for chicken or $9.00 a pound for beef or $3.00 for a head of lettuce? This nation has always depended upon immigrant workers who were willing to pay the low wage price to be part of America to keep our costs down.

If we are so all fired up to “fix” the immigration problem by just rounding them up and sending them back home and doubling the wages and filling those jobs with “American’s” - we all better be prepared to watch our day to day living costs skyrocket. Am I the only one that gets this?

Let’s get Congress of their arses and get a sound immigration policy with the proper checks and balances in place. They haven’t done crap for the last 8 years - and they solely are responsible for the mess we are in. I certianlly can’t afford a $3.00 head of lettuce.

Comment from LWood
Time: December 15, 2006, 1:18 am

The sicko thing about this entire immigration issue when it struck local Arkies is the invasion of another culture, esp in NWA. Other areas are affected too.

Two issues are at work: One is spelled out in Ark Politics post. The other is simply U.S. industrialists new taste, ala Reagan, for cheap, foreign labor. If they cannot take chicken processing to 3rd World Nations, bring the 3rd World Nation here. Perhaps this is being allowed as the U.S moves from an industrial, labor-intensive economy to a hi-tech economy. Perhaps not. If not then capitalists, who have concentrated wealth into fewer and fewer hands beginning with Reagan, plan on a permanent underclass which grows in proportion to the Bush class of “have mores” and 3rd World Nation’s cheap labor is necessary to enforce these goals.

Enterprises other than food and food processing have gotten in on the cheap labor gravy train. Local utilities are using non-English speaking workers, numerous construction companies partake of the bounty too as well as other parts of our “service economy”, lawn and landscaping, motel-hotel workers. It may be a major economic shift from unskilled to hi-tech but I smell a rat in the works.

Jesus Jim Holt and his Duggar associates are worse than wrong on this issue. The real supply of cheap labor comes from “surplus populations” of South America. Our foreign aid packages are now forbidden to make mention or take steps to institute any type of birth control. The Earth’s population has grown six-fold in since 1800. It’s time religious wackos quit imposing their self-righteous ignorance on us and the rest of the World. Birth control is essential unless they really want a nation of $7.00 hour brick layers and utility lineman trying to pay our defense bill while huge masses live in high rise small apartments and a few of the privileged foreign laborers make it to moblile homes in an overcrowded rural area with septic tanks leaking to every water supply available. I’ve had enough . Impose some controls. Get birth control information and devices out with every aid package we give to So Americans, Africans and others who are suffering from too many peoplel chasing too few resources and jobs.
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