Oh My- You Mean... They Lie?!!
“Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers.”
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If they come here legally, good luck to them.
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Posted by: h | May 13, 2010 5:38 PM
I own and operate a small commercial painting company in massachusetts and for the last ten years I have been competeing against companies that are predominately owned by brazillians. the owner of the company is typically legal and has workers comp and general liability insurance. the problem is the workers that he has are all illegal immigrants without exception he pays the $12/hr cash he does not pay overtime or offer them any benefits. The state and federal government are losing millions in uncollected taxes from them but most dont care thats the price they are willing to pay to buy the votes of the latino population in the U.S. . the general contractors continue to use him because his prices are so low. they will often let me match the price of the low bidder but when my painters make $25-$35/hr have medical, dental and get transportation money they are often half my price. so I lose project after project to comapnies that use illegals and half of my employeees are Brazillian and are either resident aliens or have green cards I have even sponsored some to get their citizenship and they are just as upset about illegal immigrants as i am because every job I lose to those companies is money out of our pockets and often results in layoffs depnding on what time of year it is. the owners of those companies take advantage of the illegals that work for him because they have no recourse for wage law violations. most of you are totally ignorant to the ground level cause and effect of illegal immigration. you dont get the whole story from any news outlet PERIOD!!
Posted by: memory man | May 14, 2010 9:19 AM
Sarah Silverman has a visually very pleasing upper body, very nice curves, but in several of the pictures I have seen it looks like her eyes are too close together. I don't think she hires Mexians. If businesses and wealthy landowners didnt hire Mexians to avoid taxes and wage standards, would there even be a problem? Maybe then they would stay home. Thank you, MM, if I ever need painters with green cards I will look you up. Seriously. Right now I have vinyl siding though.
Posted by: Carrie's crew | May 15, 2010 9:09 AM