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To: John Vosilla who wrote (189184)	5/14/2012 5:45:48 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543697

<<One thing Bush was right on was needing immigrants (Mexicans?) to do jobs American's don't want to do. Many Americans prefer the handout, drug culture or deadbeat dad status living in the shadows to working an honest lower end or even blue collar job these days. Not everybody can be an educated engineer, teacher or doctor>> There is a totally different way to look at the question above. Pay the people a living wage! Take farm (slave) labor. Those folks should make 2 or 3 times what they make and should have unions. Our monster income inequality (65 in the world) is due to the pubs destroying the unions starting in 1980. Raise the minimum wage and reestabilsh unions so people make a fair wages and people will do those jobs. It is not OK for the rich to get rich on the backs of slave labor. Look how the working person was treated for all of history until unions and laws were established to protect them. Business sure didn't protect them! We should have a very large middle class with very few rich and poor, like New Zealand, Denmark, Australia and Canada. Every study in the world shows societies function better with a large middle class. If you read some worker history, even in this country, workers were treated like slaves, paid slave wages and put in harms way with impunity until laws were established to protect workers from things like child sweatshops and dangerous working conditions, etc.