> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Horwith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:54 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: More Breaking News
>
>
> Hey - I like cutting my own lawn.
>
> I'm no economist, bu i wouldn't hold your breath on seeing
> minimum wage go away. Quite honestly, as far as I know it
> shouldn't go away. The goal shouldn't be to do away with it
> so that companies can hire Americans for as cheap as they can
> get illegal labor, but to legalize all of the labor to the
> extent that it all falls under minimum wage law. That way
> there'd be no benefit to hiring an illegal labourer as
> opposed to a legal one (they'd cost the same). Without
> minimum wage, what would protect the workforce - especially
> unskilled and manual labour? Of course, this would most
> likely result in even more work being outsourced to countries
> like India... any work that can be, anyway.
>
> ~Simon
>
> Simon Horwith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 07 January 2004 13:36
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: More Breaking News
>
>
> >We have 10.5 million illegal workers in the United States
> right now," said
> US Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue.
>
> >"If they went home, we'd have to shut down the country."
>
> Hehe, or we'd just have to learn how to cut our own lawn again. :)
>
> Immigration is probably where I am furthest from
> libertarian. At this point
> I am almost isolationist. I would much rather see
> work-fare programs that
> get people off the rolls of welfare and into low and no
> skill jobs. Really
> if we could do away with the minimum wage and make it so that these
> companies that hire illegals because they can't afford
> Americans, can again,
> it would be good for us all.
>
> Also isn't this going to encourage MORE illegal
> immigration, as people will
> see the "success stories" of people who got legal
> recognition. Plus the way
> many state governments are set up, don't immigrants, even
> non-citizens, then
> become eligible for social programs, like welfare and
> medical benefits?
>
> Yeah I can't see how any of this is a good idea.
>
> --
> Timothy Heald
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:27 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: More Breaking News
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3375327.stm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3375327.stm>
Cheers,
Erika
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