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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (316219)12/18/2006 10:19:31 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1578283
 
When we import 15 million illegal software engineers that work for $5 an hour... then I'll worry about MS.

You brought up the idea that employers are making record profits, as if that were somehow wrong because more of the profit should go to the employee. If you want to tie this record profit idea to illegal immigrant labor, you either have to show that the employers of illegal immigrant labor (restaurants, trash collection, etc.) are making record profits (I don't think they are), or admit that record corporate profits a la MSFT have nothing to do with the "problem" you are trying to solve.

Do you agree that corporate record profits have nothing to do with illegal immigrant labor, or not?

Here are some "poverty guidelines" for you:

atdn.org

Explain how a family of four lives on $20K per year in this country.

Why "discuss" poverty - we're all against it. We all would like positive changes which will reduce it. We all support the idea of a strong middle class. The question is how to achieve that, not whether or not it should be achieved.

Your plan (kick out 15 million cheap illegal laborers who hold the worst of the worst jobs that Americans don't) will cause more damage than good because it will kill loads of jobs and drive loads of employers (like the meat packers you listed earlier) out of business.

Strengthening the middle class will be achieved primarily by strengthening education, not by increasing wages for unskilled labor.
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