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   Rod Speed to norton@cybertrails.com   
   Re: Foreign Workers Taking Jobs American   
   25 Nov 05 06:56:25   
   
   XPost: ok.general, dfw.general, misc.consumers.frugal-living   
   XPost: rec.music.country.western   
   From: rod_speed@yahoo.com   
      
   arminius  wrote   
   > Alcibiades  wrote   
      
   >> I'm surprised to still see these people showing up in Immigration   
   >> fora claiming the Illegals and other 3rd-World Stormtroopers are   
   >> here to take jobs Americans don't want. That is straight-up bullshit   
   >> for all of us old enough to remember our communities before Illegals   
   >> and visa-hires showed up, that's something we personally know not   
   >> to be the case. Those readers who are younger should engage their   
   >> imaginations a little bit and realize that Americans have always done   
   >> every sort of job. The only time they could not afford to do them was   
   >> during periods of, you guessed it, high immigration. You stop the   
   >> immigration, wages float back up, and Americans come in to get them.   
   >> That's how it's worked for over 200 years.   
      
   The world has moved on more than just a tad now that   
   its possible to be a welfare queen and wasnt in the past.   
      
   >> The only practical effect of supporting Illegals and visa   
   >> workers is to lower wages and make all of us poorer.   
      
   Mindless silly stuff, most obviously with those with decent   
   jobs than can afford to hire those to do various stuff like the   
   gardening, the pool, wiping the little kids arses etc etc etc.   
      
   >> There IS no benefit. It's as simple as that.   
      
   Nope.   
      
   Reams of equally mindless silly shit flushed where it belongs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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