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To: Bommer
"Americans will pick lettuce and fry fries and clean toilets and pave roads and milk cows.

It's not just the jobs you listed above that illegals are being hired to do. They are working at the airports and ship yards in Mississippi, and those jobs pay more than minimum wage.

Only if they paid $9.50 an hour and medical and dental benefits."

Illegals may not be getting $9.50 an hour, but they do have medical and dental benefits and we are paying for them.
9 posted on 06/03/2005 6:27:00 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: Americanexpat

>>>>>Illegals may not be getting $9.50 an hour, but they do have medical and dental benefits and we are paying for them.

That's a lot of the problem right there. One of the reasons that employers can hire illegals at an unburdened labor rate is the fact that they get medical treatment at our expense every time they show up at a hospital.

Let's review the bidding.
A) I can hire an American and pay a labor rate where 66% of the costs are insurance, pension and G&A (Federal legal Latin and Red Tape).

B) I can hire an illegal where there's no pension, no G&A unless I was stupid and wanted to go to jail, and the insurance part was federally subsidized.

Until we stop having to provide health care to illegals at taxpayer expense, only an idiot would hire an American.


39 posted on 06/03/2005 7:42:02 AM PDT by .cnI redruM ("There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it.-PJ O')
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