Poll: Stricter immigration laws wanted [in NC and SC]
Posted Fri, Oct 8, 2004 at 12:40 pm
From this:
Most Carolinians believe it should be harder for people to immigrate to the United States, according to the 2004 Carolinas Poll.
About 80 percent of those surveyed said they oppose loosening restrictions for America's newest arrivals...
The article closes with the thoughts of a cheap labor pimp:
"If these people do not come in, we would all be hurting. Houses would not be built as inexpensively as they are," and restaurants and hotels would not be properly staffed, [Ana Flynn] said.
In her quote, the word "inexpensively" means "on your dime." As we know, that cheap labor is only cheap for their employers, not for the rest of us: "Study Says Illegal Migrants Cost U.S. $10 Billion a Year"
Comments
John S Bolton (not verified)
Sun, 10/10/2004 - 21:49
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Similarly, there is a gross failure of logic and economic knowledge involved in implying that, since last year's input was absorbed, that the same increment next year, also will be. If that were true every producer could increase his output of anything, and it would be expected that it would all be absorbed. The economy doesn't work that way, though, there are always items in oversupply.
John S Bolton (not verified)
Sun, 10/10/2004 - 21:41
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There is a contradiction in that implied claim that the economy cannot adjust to a lessening of the increase of low-end people, but can adjust to the arrival of next year's cohort of them. Either the economy is flexible with regard to reponding to the presence of such people, or it is rigid and incapable of adjusting to such slow or fast increases at that end of the pay-scale.