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To: tobyhill

"Just out of curiosity, with 4.7% unemployment, what pool of employees will go pick onions for $5.15 per hour?"

Probably nobody, which means they have to pay more. How many doctors would work for 25,000 dollars a year? None, so we pay them 250,000. If nobody wants to pick tomatoes at 5.15, pay them 10. If you divide 4.85 over a couple hundred tomatoes we'll pay maybe a penny or two more for a tomatoes, and pay thousands less a year for immigrants who drain our welfare state.


80 posted on 04/24/2006 2:47:55 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: RHINO369

I'll pay more too for goods picked by Americans but will there be enough American Workers at 4.7% unemployment to do the job even if it did pay $10 an hour?


84 posted on 04/24/2006 3:02:11 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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