> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 05:30 PM 3/17/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >What do you mean by needs? > > I mean that if we were suddenly to get rid of the millions of illegal > workers in the country, we would have a very difficult time finding > millions of people to work in construction, fruit and vegetable picking, > and janitorial/custodial services. This would, of course, be disastrous > for our economy. In addition, as you are well aware, our country badly > needs immigration to keep our population up as we hit the demographic bulge.
Here you argue vehemently against the laws of supply and demand. Your argument is equivalent to pro-slavery arguments. > In my mind, isn't it far better to let the > *market* decide what sort of labor it needs, and to let people who can find > jobs to accept the employment that is offered to them? Here you argue vehemently for the laws of supply and demand. So which is it? Or are you just being a typical reptiliKlan hypocrite? > I also find it difficult to believe that immigrants are a net burden on > social services. In general, immigrants are not elgible for welfare, and > those restrictions were tightened in 1996. Immigrants are generally not > elgible for things like Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment either. > Indeed, in general immigrants tend to have jobs and to the extent that we > can regularize that employment of the millions of illegal immigrants > already here, then can presumably become taxpayers as well. To the extent > that immigrants bring and produce children that need to be educated, I tend > to consider that an investment in our future tax base, and indeed, most > studies have found that second generation immigrants are very likely to be > net tax contributors. So I take it you'd like to return to slavery or the Confederacy. Typical reptiliKKKlan. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
