What Guest Workers Want -- Temp Jobs
Debra Saunders has a great piece up on temporary worker programs at RealClearPolitics.
My favorite bit...
The very notion that Americans won't take some jobs is absurd. After all, Americans will take any job, if it pays enough. There is no such thing as cheap labor. There are only cheap wages.
When employers hire illegal workers at a cut rate, they pass onto taxpayers the cost of health care and other government services used by workers and their families. I can't help but see the business lobby's support of guest-worker programs as anything but an attempt to get working people to subsidize cheapskate corporations so they can sell their products at bargain prices and make bigger profits.
Taxpayers with little education get the shaft twice -- as their wages are depressed by a glut of unskilled workers.
Read the whole thing.
Technorati Tags: illegal immigration, temporary worker programs, guest worker programs, we need a fence a wall and a moat!
My favorite bit...
The very notion that Americans won't take some jobs is absurd. After all, Americans will take any job, if it pays enough. There is no such thing as cheap labor. There are only cheap wages.
When employers hire illegal workers at a cut rate, they pass onto taxpayers the cost of health care and other government services used by workers and their families. I can't help but see the business lobby's support of guest-worker programs as anything but an attempt to get working people to subsidize cheapskate corporations so they can sell their products at bargain prices and make bigger profits.
Taxpayers with little education get the shaft twice -- as their wages are depressed by a glut of unskilled workers.
Read the whole thing.
Technorati Tags: illegal immigration, temporary worker programs, guest worker programs, we need a fence a wall and a moat!
posted by jakejacobsen @ 10:44 PM
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