What Next? (salary, Israel, illegal, health care)

[coors4bob]

With this weeks "peoples victory" in the senate the question now is what next? How do we leverage this success and the current focus by the American public (normally with the attention of a goldfish). The bleeding hearts are already starting to line up to push nonsense like Hillary’s DREAM Act which provides citizenship and instate tuition for Jr. Illegal’s.

We need to strike while the iron is hot and shame the pro-amnesty senators into completing the fence on our southern border. Quotes were made by many on the pro-amnesty side that said “if you think you are going to get a wall without citizenship you can forget it”. But we need to re-frame the discussion to one of security and financial responsibility. A full double layer fence with an access road would stop the vast majority of illegal crossings. It works in Israel, it will work here.

Secondly we need to make businesses responsible for the temporary workers they bring into the country. They may indeed need labor not available in the US using native workers. But the negative externalities to the American economy in social welfare and health care cost can no longer be ignored. The temporary guest workers program must force businesses to sponsor workers for the period they are in the country. The current policy enriches the owners of the business through taxpayer subsidies.

The second element to this program carries emphasis on the "temporary" portion of the program. When the growing season is completed the workers need to return to their home country. Thank you very much; you made 5 times the salary you would have in your home country of (insert country here).

The third element to a successful guest worker program is identification. Workplace enforcement should be escalated in the coming months but we need to give the lawful workers a tamper proof card that allows them and their business sponsors to prove they have complied with the law.

Are these additional cost going to be passed on by the sponsoring companies? I sure hope so. The market can then decide if it wants a product that truly reflects its cost to society. Maybe lettuce really cost $1.50 not 99 cents. Maybe it cost 20 dollars to get your lawn mowed not 12. Maybe people will say for 20 bucks I’ll cut the grass, or have my son (most likely obese) cut the grass. Maybe just maybe we don’t need the illegal’s as bad as we think.