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To: Dale Baker who wrote (140234)	7/3/2010 2:24:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543224

It's not just large business owners. Anyone who eats anything benefits from cheap food prices- courtesy of our migrant workers. They don't make anywhere near what "Americans" would expect for that work. I've said this before, but when we were in Scotland our foodcosts were HUGE- HUGE- mostly because behind most of the food stood a Scotsman making a fair wage. Not everything was Scottish, there were imports from Spain (cheaper), but lots of the food was Scottish and was expensive. No Hispanic workers there. If you go to the back of a restaurant (at least here in California) all the help are Hispanic. The cooks are Hispanic. They will work hard for low wages. Most of the gardeners in California are Hispanic or Vietnamese. You CAN find anglos- but they are the "consultants" who you give instructions to, and they run crews of... Hispanics. So while it sounds nice to say the big companies benefit, it isn't just the big companies. Anyone contracting for tree trimming, or yard service, or concrete, or housecleaning, or just about any low education service job, is going to find Hispanic labor (legal and illegal) very tempting. Hard working, pleasant people, who do a great job- it's difficult to make people give that up, especially when they are the low bid. We hire only legal in our family, because we want licensed bonded workers who are insured- but most people don't think that way, or even if they do, they don't have the money to hire those workers. It's not just the rich who benefit. The middle class has benefited enormously in being able to hire cheap service people too. I remember when I was a kid no one had a yard service. Now even low rent neighborhoods have them.