http://www.minorthoughts.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fminorthoughts.com%2Feconomics%2Fmore-immigration-economics%2F%23comment-&seed_title=More+Immigration+Economics In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.minorthoughts.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fminorthoughts.com%2Feconomics%2Fmore-immigration-economics%2F%23comment-1470&seed_title=More+Immigration+Economics#comment-1470 Johnny Upbeat Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:52:44 +0000 http://www.minorthoughts.com/2006/07/08/more-immigration-economics/#comment-1470 <p>I agreed with most of your points. I don't care about much beyond making sure we always have a steady supply of cheap poorly educated labor. Farmers and restaurants might have to start paying the Mexican help a living wage otherwise and that would hurt our economy. I really don't think I could afford to eat as many fruits and veggies or go out to restaurants as often if prices increased. My lawn would suffer as well. We probably can't afford for Mexicans to ever have higher wages. I mean that's why we started accepting them in the first place, because they are so cheap and hard working. Fortunately there are always millions more clamoring to get in and work as cheap as need be so I don't think we have a national state of emergency yet. Still, we need to keep the border open lest the cheap labor supply get pinched and we all have to start paying more for everything.</p> I agreed with most of your points. I don’t care about much beyond making sure we always have a steady supply of cheap poorly educated labor. Farmers and restaurants might have to start paying the Mexican help a living wage otherwise and that would hurt our economy. I really don’t think I could afford to eat as many fruits and veggies or go out to restaurants as often if prices increased. My lawn would suffer as well. We probably can’t afford for Mexicans to ever have higher wages. I mean that’s why we started accepting them in the first place, because they are so cheap and hard working. Fortunately there are always millions more clamoring to get in and work as cheap as need be so I don’t think we have a national state of emergency yet. Still, we need to keep the border open lest the cheap labor supply get pinched and we all have to start paying more for everything.

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