-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Sean Rima <=-

 KW> It would read like a "black mirror" episode. Through some miracle, we
 KW> block illegal immigration, and there's no one to work in a restaurant
 KW> kitchen, or to harvest crops. Big Agriculture has to pay competitive
 KW> wages, and there's a revolt over the lack of options dining out and
 KW> $19.99 heads of lettuce.

You mean millions of professional welfare recepients would have to get off
their lazy asses and work?  
(Welfare was meant to be a hand up, not a handout, and while there are
exceptions, that's what they are and 
many on welfare can work but choose not to.)  Damn, what a concept!

There's always going to be illegal immigration but a physical barrier, built
correctly, would impede a lot of 
what is happening now.  California is an excellent example of what happens when
illegal immigration is left 
unchecked.  I remember living in the Inland Empire back in the 80s.  It was a
pretty decent place.  Now you 
couldn't pay me enough to live in California (even Northern California).  It's
turned into a shithole and 
that's sad for me considering I was born in California.  I'll visit but I'll
never live there again.

The minimum wage is an artificial construct that's hurting our economy, and not
helping it.  I heard recently 
that mimimum wage workers are less than 2% of the US' overall economy but if
you add in the costs of 
assistance to help them, including welfare, jacking the minimum wage to $15 is
only going to hurt everyone 
including those not involved.

Later,
Sean

 
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