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Originally posted by chop760:
I can't believe people are having so much trouble paying there house payments and loans with the fine Republican President and Governor that we have. Shame on you if you believe the economy is so great and everyone is working making big money, Which they are because they love paying you $5.50 an hour 20 hours a week and would be glad to pay you $2.25 an hour and work you till your nose bleeds, Thats not to raise the wage, that is to lower it where they can give the Mexicans a big raise, But most of them that come over not being legal wih there drugs would not want to take a cut in pay and change there life style. I can't believe the Times Daily would even put an article like that in the Rag that they call a news paper.
I think I understand what you are saying, and if I do, I know I agree with you.
Illegal immigrants are afforded NO LEGAL protection in the job market. They cannot even complain about abusive employment practices, lest they be deported. They cannot enforce an employment agreement even to the extent of being paid their wages when due, lest they be deported. They are consistently exploited, sometimes to death. Under paid, Over Worked, put at risk of their lives without proper protective equipment, and they compete with legal residents for those high risk low skill jobs. They win the competition because the employer is exempt from providing protections to them. THEY ARE ILLEGALS. When they are hired by company X, company Y cannot compete for contracts with X because labor and protective gear are higher costs for the legal employer than the illegal employer.
This drives down wages overall, and reduces purchasing power overall, and slows business operations overall, and RESULTS IN FINANCIAL WOES FOR EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE EMPLOYER.