Fed-up (Huntsville: credit, to buy, schools)

[Charles]

Originally Posted by HB2HSV

in my subdivision

They work in 100 deg F heat with 99% humidity ALL DAY.

Do you live on Mercury?

That's a 193F heat index.

[Croye22]

Should I lol or facepalm here?

[HB2HSV]

Originally Posted by Charles

Do you live on Mercury?

That's a 193F heat index.

No but I plan to visit there one day. I do, however; plan to visit there at night time since it will be cooler at night.

[DvlsAdvc8]

lol

[gsp4ever]

Originally Posted by HB2HSV

Yup. There are no shortage of jobs, just the people who're willing to work it.

People will work all sorts of jobs if the pay is good enough. I know a family who was looking to hire some Mexicans to plant a Christmas Tree farm at $3/hr.

Yeah, in that case, you could file that under "Jobs Americans Won't Do".

[HB2HSV]

Originally Posted by gsp4ever

People will work all sorts of jobs if the pay is good enough.

I think this qualify as the rhetorical statement for the day

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by DanInHSV

One reason healthcare is getting so expensive is we can't hire illegal aliens to be our doctors. The current system is clearly unsustainable.

Right on! If the brunt of our U.S. population was centered around the Mexican border, we wouldn't need universal health care. The last 15 years, I have gotten all my medical needs met cheaply and professionally south of the border and as far south as Central and South America (a $60 dental crown in Tijuana which I've had no problems with the past 7 years).

I suggest we bring in the alien Doctors, from Cuba and elsewhere, open up Wal-Marts of health care centers and post At Your Own Risk at the front door for those willing to try it. Once people try them, they'll never go back to an over-priced American Doctor again.

[cobolt]

Great. So then we can just have illegals and foreigners doing jobs for next to nothing and we'll all just be the upper class consumer. Or isn't it that way already?

[wls2624]

Sounds like Arizona....

[financelife]

One of the benefits of capitalism in a global economy is something called labor arbitrage. It doesn't matter if you're American, if a company can get someone to work the same job for less, then of course the company should pursue the cheaper worker.

Lately, there's a lot of whining about companies 'owing' something to the American worker. Maybe it was the case in the past, however, nowadays, what can really, truly be done? Not much.

A great example was given in a business week article about Walmart some years ago. They built a new super center in some Canadian town, which got excited because of the tax revenue and jobs it would bring. However, the town wanted the workers to be unionized. Walmart didn't want that as part of an agreement to build there. Well, the town took them to court and won, and the court decision was if Walmart wanted to build there, they had to abide by the local rules. Guess what happened? Walmart ditched the town, and the town was VERY dismayed: no jobs, no revenue.

That is the same scenario being played out with other domestic corporations. I read that a company in NJ was considering relocating headquarters to MA if the politicians didn't get the state tax laws changed for its benefit. The company is a MAJOR employer, and I'm pretty sure legislators are scrambling to keep the corp in their own state. There's no telling how many states are going through this same situation.

On the federal level, there's talk of taxing corp foreign earnings, which our domestic corps are complaining and some even threatening of relocating headquarters to other countries.

No doubt we are moving towards borderless corp nation states. When corporations begin to have more power and funds than many countries, isn't it inevitable? Will there be a future move towards corporatism versus nationalism? Something I've been wondering since 2001. When you consider these ideas and questions, then you may see why nobody important really cares about "illegal" immigrants. In a world of profits, there is no such thing as illegal immigrants. Americans, Mexicans, Chinese, Indians....etc. It's all the same. We're all just resources for corporations like any other resource such as raw materials, equipment, and inventory. And depending on what company plans are, cheaper inputs are often the goal.