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To: Elroy who wrote (316223)	12/18/2006 12:25:54 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578396

re: Do you agree that corporate record profits have nothing to do with illegal immigrant labor, or not? No, I don't agree with that. One of the issues on low end salaries is that it creates lower wages even for people who don't hire illegals. If you have a town where there is a meat packer that hires illegals at below market wages, then that's one option less for citizens and legals. If the meat packer had to pay what the job was worth (it's a god awful job), then a guy that was working stocking shelves at Walmart might take that job for the extra money, so that he can support his family and get ahead. As it is, he's not going to do it for the same $'s, and the pressure on Walmart to raise wages is less. They don't have to compete for employee's with the meat packer. re: 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. What a bunch of crap. People in the US are going to stop eating meat??? LOL. re: Strengthening the middle class will be achieved primarily by strengthening education, not by increasing wages for unskilled labor. Nothing wrong with strengthening education... in fact they have been trying to do that for forever. You have a better plan that hasn't been tried? Also nothing wrong with paying a living wage to full time employees. In a country this rich, with many CEOs earning $10Million+ a year, it seems to me to be a minimum threshold. May not play in the UAE though.