;-)
-Ben
>Can I ship my lawn to India to be cut? <gd&r>
>
>> -----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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