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To: radicalamericannationalist
What you mean is jobs that Americans won't do for Third World wages. By flooding our labor market with the world's economic refugees, we're simply bidding our standard of living down.

You know how most Americans are nowadays. Even if they need a job badly they'll still scowl and say they're not doing THAT job. Most of these positions have been filled by Hispanic workers for years, even ones who came here legally in the 60s and 70s but have now moved up the economic ladder. So they left these positions and now they've been vacant and are being filled by illegals, since Americans won't do 'em.

52 posted on 11/17/2004 10:40:25 AM PST by BlkConserv
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To: BlkConserv
So they left these positions and now they've been vacant and are being filled by illegals, since Americans won't do 'em...

...at the wages being offered by American employers. I guess us 'lazy' Americans just don't like living with 15 other people in a one bedroom apartment like many Mexican illegal aliens do so that they can survive on what's left of their meager salaries after sending a big chunk of it back home to their families in Mexico.

58 posted on 11/17/2004 10:49:44 AM PST by usadave
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To: BlkConserv
"Even if they need a job badly they'll still scowl and say they're not doing THAT job."

1. They wil pass up those jobs at a Third World wage scale. If we flooded the market with Indian and Chinese attorneys, thereby driving wages down, there would be less people willing to do the job. But that is a maeket distortion because of the fact that there is simply an unimaginably huge labor pool in the Third World. We are dragging our wages down.

2. "Most of these positions have been filled by Hispanic workers for years, even ones who came here legally in the 60s and 70s but have now moved up the economic ladder."

Please clarify. Are you saying that Hispanics who legally crossed the border and became citizens are not Americans?
110 posted on 11/17/2004 7:42:00 PM PST by radicalamericannationalist (The Senate is our new goal: 60 in '06.)
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