Really, you think we would have massive illegal immigration if we had no jobs being offered then? You also believe that if nobody demanded drugs there would be people killing each other to get it here? We can disagree on if punishing a drug user is either right it would make any difference on then wanting the drug. But you surely cannot argue that it is demand that drives the supply, not the other way around. My point is just that the demand for cheap labor and the willingness to break the law to get it drives illegal immigration. I think you are letting your desire for penalty fee drug use get in the way of your judgement. OK, I made that last part up but you really don't understand the basics of supply and demand?
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016, 8:08 PM Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > agreed > > Legal or illegal, has nothing to do with drugs. If people want to do > something they will. > On Mar 13, 2016 7:28 PM, "Jerry Head" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> " Kind of like the drug problem. As long as you don't penalize the user >> you get increasing demand." >> >> This has got to be one of the most ignorant comments I have ever seen on >> this list. >> Wow.... >> >> On 3/13/2016 6:35 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: >> > I agree with that. Kind of like the drug problem. As long as you don't >> penalize the user you get increasing demand. If you don't punish the >> employer you get increasing demand. >> >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016, 2:56 PM Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Far less than many believe.... you need documentation which of course can >>> be faked...but percentage wise more welfare in southern states. Most >>> undocumented workers fend for themselves holding two or three shit jobs no >>> one wants. See who is working on highways late at night or in hot sun in >>> Texas...a white foreman and ton of Hispanics.... I have travelled just >>> about every rode in Texas.... go to Chile harvests in Hatch,NM. Like I >>> said..no demand, no supply.... simple Adam Smith theory in action. >>> On Mar 13, 2016 1:06 PM, "Lewis Bergman" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Immigration should have been unfettered in 1893 because there was no >>>> welfare state in existence then. The combination of unrestricted >>>> immigration and a comprehensive welfare system has the potential to >>>> bankrupt the U.S. I have no idea if immigrants make up a larger part of the >>>> welfare system than any other, just that the potential is there. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016, 11:35 AM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>
