[lbo-talk] Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 10 15:31:37 PDT 2007



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>[WS:] So if you believe that there are no jobs available, how do you explain
>the undocumented immigration to the US in search of jobs? It stands to
>reason that there must be jobs available, if people abroad are taking
>considerable risk and cost to come here to work, no? So it follows that
>these jobs are also available to the domestic population

Even the Freepers don't agree with this:


>Those in favor of foreign labor are corporations who are addicted to
>cheap labor. They are the ones who are benefiting. But their benefit
>comes at the American tax payer's expense when you consider that the
>American tax payer is virtually subsidizing the labor costs of the
>greedy corporations by supplying the illegal foreign workers and
>their families with welfare, free education, free medical, WICs,
>housing assistance, etc. -- something the corporations won't do.
>
>Americans won't allow themselves to be exploited like illegals do,
>but they WILL do the work that illegals do for fair compensation and
>benefits. If Americans did the work that illegals do at higher pay,
>would that benefit the consumer? You bet it would in the long run.
>But many Americans who do not care about America's future are
>consumers who favor the idea of exploiting illegal workers because
>it keeps commodity and service prices down in the short term.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b30c0535a05.htm



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