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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (263523)	12/6/2005 1:27:16 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573764

re: You're right. However, last time I checked, which was a couple of weeks ago, unemployment is down to 5.0%. A funky number at best... and underemployment is the problem. Low end wages stay the same or go down, inflation continues, poverty rates grow, fewer and fewer people with health insurance. New laws limiting bankruptcy that effect people not corporations. No problem for you, you have a cushy job at Intel, great salary, benefits. Who cares how the other half lives? re: My position stands, however. Drastically lift the limits of legal immigration and try to get a handle on the situation. Add good enforcement on the borders and within, and we'll have a solution that I think both sides can agree upon. No, put the people that hire illegals in jail. They are complicit and enabling, AND they are brazenly breaking the law. A no tolerance policy, 90 days in prison. End of problem... no jobs for illegals, no illegal immigration. Then if you offer a shit job, you have to pay someone a decent wage to do it. John

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (263523)	12/6/2005 1:56:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573764

JF, You don't have to hire illegals to benefit from the oversupply of workers for low wage jobs. It's a commodity marketplace subject to supply/demand rules. You're right. However, last time I checked, which was a couple of weeks ago, unemployment is down to 5.0%. Down? From where? You do understand that the economy is not producing enough jobs to reduce unemployment and that any 'downness' you see is due to discouraged people leaving the work force? I really hope you see that because then you will realize just how facile this recovery has been.