Posted on 08/22/2007 5:27:09 PM PDT by shrinkermd
The Bush administration’s latest immigration policy may shut out illegals but could also export jobs, business groups warn...
...Austin Perez, a lobbyist for the American Farm Bureau, said farmers’ labor costs are “at the breaking point.” They can’t raise wages further without charging more. Enforce Locally, Eat Globally. But shoppers at the grocery store don’t have to buy U.S.-grown fruits or vegetables. They can buy produce from other countries
...The Social Security Administration will send “no match” letters to employers identifying hires using numbers that don’t match the data on file. Employers will now have 90 days to clarify the matter. If the worker is not legal, employers must either fire the person or face an $11,000 fine per employee.
...Pia Orrenius, senior economist for the Dallas Federal Reserve, has found “no match” letters to be highly effective...
...Orrenius estimates that over half of illegals use bogus Social Security numbers to get jobs. ...payroll taxes on $586 billion of wages have been paid so far in fiscal 2007 by people whose numbers don’t match the data on file.
(Excerpt) Read more at epaper.investors.com ...
The pushing jobs out of the US threat isn’t going to work too well in my part of the country. LOL
I’ll take my chances.
So charge more. We will decide if we want your produce.
Oh B.S. It’s hard for high school kids to find jobs these days. We’ll simply go back to the traditional method of filling entry level positions.
This ‘sending jobs overseas arguement” is all the more pathetic considering who is making it, in many instances the same folks who have alrady sent every job China they could, and the rest to India.
Ogtsourcing was never that bad.
Bunk.
A competitive wage for lettuce picking would probably add $0.25 to the price of a head. Seasonal variation alone is more than that.
The outsourcing of jobs is the great “sucking sound” predicted by Ross Perot in response to NAFTA. Rescind NAFTA. No NAFTA highway or railroad, both already in the planning. If the last two become policy, the sucking sound will grow exponentially.
Why, why do our leaders want to sell our country?
They will not have any problem at all. None.
The government may have problems, but not the retirees.
As far as exporting jobs, that is laughable.
I thought that they were coming here to do the work that we don’t want to do??
So who cares if those jobs go to China, for all of that?
Interesting theory. Let me see if I have this right.
We need to have illegals in the US because there are supposedly millions of jobs Americans won’t do, that we need illegals to fill.
But, if we get rid of the illegals somehow we’re going to have a shortage of jobs after they’re gone?
What a crock. We have the brasero program and can import as much legal labor for farm work as we like. Just a scare tactic by business cheaters who like to hire illegals- supported by the people in this administation who are bought and paid for by Mexican interests.
If my retirement is dependent upon illiterate, unskilled illegal labor then I had better have an Alternate Plan B, hadn't I.
Besides, flooding the US with illegal lawbreakers to ensure a comfy retirement is the epitome of selfishness. I won't do that to my kids.
Buying produce from overseas? No thanks.
It’s probably tainted with who-knows-what.
Exactly, someway we will survive even if we have to restructure the entire system.
Also, there are LEGAL ways to get farm labor, just do it legally and all is well. Tell the government how many you need, get green cards for them. The employer should take care of them while they are here working for them, and then make them go home when the job is done, even if it is a month or so. Waa Waaa lobbyists can only think inside their box of cash. Cut out his job and there would be a huge savings!
Why don't they just pay their golf caddies to come after me? They sure can't do it themselves, the decrepit fiends.
Posted: February 14, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
It’s really quite simple. To stop the outflow of American jobs, all that is required is to: repeal the minimum wage law, outlaw labor unions, repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act, dismantle OSHA, abolish the EPA, repeal the Endangered Species Act, abandon the Ecosystem Management Policy, repeal all articles of the Clean Water Act that affect non-navigable waters and, in general, return America to the social status of India, China and the other nations to which American jobs are flowing.
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U.S. jobs moving overseas has been blamed on every “topic of the day”, for years.
Illegal aliens are just wrong, cut and dry
Bullsh*t. These workers work under table and pay nothing into the system. The others make so little, they’re combined contributions amount to little. When they retire, however, they will bankrupt the system because it favors low wage workers.
We have millions of guys in prison, and millions more who might as well be.
Most of them can’t read and write, and have never had a job.
While the majority would be unsuitable for farm labor, perhaps if wages were raised a little some of them could be recruited.
Same here..
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