[oldbill]

I would like to do an audit of Mr. Ivory’s books. I’ll bet you find that he has grown quite rich in his home building business, because paying employees $10/hr without benefits and taxes is a lot less than the $24/hr plus benefits that he used to pay a journeyman carpenter or drywaller.

Oh - and those legal American tradesmen, who used that just wage to raise a family and send their kids to college and pay taxes and spend into the economy - why they’re either on the welfare rolls or in some part-time low-pay job. Instead of contributing to the economy, they are now a drag on it. And their lives are not so good, either.

But that doesn’t bother Ivory, or the union leaders, or the Democrats, or the RINOs, or the Chamber of Commerce - that’s just good business.

[ketsu]

But that doesn’t bother Ivory, or the union leaders, or the Democrats, or the RINOs, or the Chamber of Commerce - that’s just good business.

It used to bother the union leaders quite a bit. Ol Ceasar Chavez was as anti-illegal as they come.

Currently union leaders are waiting for amnesty to play out so they can jump on all the new citizens. I hope they do. Boy won't Ivory get a shock when his newly amnestied Mexicans start unionizing and demanding American wages.

[Melinda in TN]

I guess I'm a bad old Republican extremist then. I think if we put the millions of Americans that are on welfare in these unskilled jobs and did away with welfare we wouldn't need illegal labor, not that I think we actually need illegal labor anyway.