"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:


Overweight, illiterate, addicted to sugar and cable television, unwilling
to
harvest food by hand, clean hotel rooms, wash pots and pans in
restaurants,
clean toilets in subway stations. That type of American?

Many of the roofing and carpentry jobs. Landscaping galore, etc.
Americans are not willing to work for those wages that are being
depressed by the influx. You have much extra supply and the demand stays
the same what happens to prices (ie wages).

I'll tell you what: When this country has a conscription system which
requires able bodied people to work in atrocious jobs for a certain
length
of time, I'm all for throwing out all the illegals. But, that won't
happen.
Not ever.

Hardly a reason to let them come in. If they were tossed out for
being illegal, then three things would happen. Some things wouldn't get
done because at "real" wages (w/o the extra illegals) they just aren't
profitable.

Conscripted people will work for minimum wage. No need to see jobs vanish
and things not get done.


In other instances, the wages and to a greater or larger
extent prices would go up.

Not if legal replacement workers receive the same wages as illegals.


In still other instances alternative ways of
doing things (automation, for instance) would take root and provide jobs
for those making the stuff.

I've already been through this last part of the discussion, many time, even
to the point where my curiosity made me call 3 farm equipment manufacturers
a couple of years ago. Unanimous responses: "Believe me - if we could figure
out a way to harvest certain crops by machine, we'd build that machine in a
heartbeat".

For some crops, human hands are the only option for now.