Reply #66: Whoa, whoa, whoa bro! [View All]

Who said anything about me "supporting" illegal alien workers making $2 per hour picking lettuce?

I'm the absolute first person that would agree to force ALL employers to hire legal workers, then restrict the supply of labor to cause wages to rise.

But the flip side of all this is the reality that cheap prices = squeezing every last penny out of every step of the production process.

The gist of this article was electrical engineers and software programmers - both industries where price deflation has been more extreme than anything else (seriously, think about digital cameras, flat TVs, cell phones, laptops), and how the wages for some of those positions has gone down.

What Dobbs never mentioned here is that engineering jobs with defense contractors (usually requiring US citizenship and security clearances) have seen nice wage improvments.

What do I personally think? - deport 99% of the illegal aliens, limit ALL types of H1-B and other immigration (some allowed, but not a lot - maybe 50K per year), then educate all the forgotten people in the inner cities, trailer parks, etc for the jobs - or pay the "uneducatable" a decent wage for the manual labor work. No, instead we'll rebuilt the ninth ward with cheap illegal alien labor so the mostly black residents can move back in, and sit there and wait for the next hurricane to kill them - and import "guest workers" to do the jobs that "Americans won't do".