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<blockquote data-quote="aplusmnt" data-source="post: 214550" data-attributes="member: 1399"><p>I do not buy into the fact that we need illegals to do the jobs that others wont do. I also believe that statistics show that labor is not a big factor in the price of a vegetable or fruit. Farmers could pay twice what they do now for labor and a piece of fruit would not go up double it would only go up a small fraction of the current cost. </p><p></p><p>I always thought our country was set up on free enterprise, supply and demand. When the demand for workers gets greater than the supply then wages go up, benefits go up. That is why businesses started offering vacations, Health benefits, Raises, Higher Wages, Dental plans. These things were offered to get better workers, harder working workers, and more workers. </p><p></p><p>Illegals go against this system we were founded on. They actually put it back closer to the slave days. As long as a farmer, business owner can hire illegals at a cheaper wage, they will never be forced to make the changes that other business have made over the years. Also they will not be forced to find a better productive way to pick lettuce or other produce if they can hire some cheap slaves to do it.</p><p></p><p>In the cleaning business there is lots of opportunities to hire illegals, it rates up there with farming, lawn service and construction. But instead of hiring an illegal for $5.00 or $6.00 per hour cash to do my grunt work, I hire legal workers for $10.00 per hour, pay Work comp on them, unemployment, Match their Social Security payment to Uncle Sam. And I do this because this is the American Way, This is what made America great, Supply and Demand, and Free Enterprise working the way it is suppose to!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aplusmnt, post: 214550, member: 1399"] I do not buy into the fact that we need illegals to do the jobs that others wont do. I also believe that statistics show that labor is not a big factor in the price of a vegetable or fruit. Farmers could pay twice what they do now for labor and a piece of fruit would not go up double it would only go up a small fraction of the current cost. I always thought our country was set up on free enterprise, supply and demand. When the demand for workers gets greater than the supply then wages go up, benefits go up. That is why businesses started offering vacations, Health benefits, Raises, Higher Wages, Dental plans. These things were offered to get better workers, harder working workers, and more workers. Illegals go against this system we were founded on. They actually put it back closer to the slave days. As long as a farmer, business owner can hire illegals at a cheaper wage, they will never be forced to make the changes that other business have made over the years. Also they will not be forced to find a better productive way to pick lettuce or other produce if they can hire some cheap slaves to do it. In the cleaning business there is lots of opportunities to hire illegals, it rates up there with farming, lawn service and construction. But instead of hiring an illegal for $5.00 or $6.00 per hour cash to do my grunt work, I hire legal workers for $10.00 per hour, pay Work comp on them, unemployment, Match their Social Security payment to Uncle Sam. And I do this because this is the American Way, This is what made America great, Supply and Demand, and Free Enterprise working the way it is suppose to! [/QUOTE]
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