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Skriven 2016-01-21 17:14:00 av Bill McGarrity (23017.2fidonews)
  Kommentar till text 30816 av BOB ACKLEY (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: The European Union
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-=> BOB ACKLEY wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

 >   Re: Re: The European Union
 >   By: BOB ACKLEY to WARD DOSSCHE on Fri Jan 15 2016 11:56 am
 >
 >  >> Plus without them as low-wage fruit- and grape-pickers, California's
 >  >> economy would even be worse.
 >
 >  BA> A point lost on those who oppose immigration. Those who have been
aying
 >  BA> attention know that Americans by and large don't want to - and won't -
 BA> do
 >  BA> such labor.
 >
 > It's not that we don't want to do such labor, we just don't want to do it
 BA> for a
 > "living" wage -- and we as consumers aren't willing to pay the prices
 BA> required
 > to support such a wage.


Two fold issue here....


 BA> I have to disagree.  Several - about ten - years ago I was acquainted
 BA> with a
 BA> fellow whose job was to stand at the end of the "disassembly line" in a
 BA> meat
 BA> packing plant and hose down cattle carcasses as they came by his work
 BA> station.  For this demanding (hah!) job he was paid $16.00/hour.  He

How did you know the level of demand this person's job entailed? Have you ever
worked in a meat packing plant?  Have you even been in a processing plant? 

 BA> decided
 BA> he didn't like the job so he quit.  At the time I was making
 BA> $16.00/hour as a computer professional with two college degrees and
 BA> nearly 30 years of experience.

And just whose fault is that?  I've always been taught you go where the money
is.  If you, at that time, felt secure in making $16.00/hour then why complain
now?  


 BA> Most workers in meat packing plants around here are Mexicans, and they
 BA> make a lot more than the minimum wage.
 
Good for them. Seems they went to where the money was and were willing to work.


It's all perspective.  If Mexicans want to do better, they go find it.  If
people just want to sit back and complain that a supposed "meaningless" job is
not demanding, yet getting paid just as well, they have one of two choices. Go
to work on the line at the processing plant or take the skills you have and
seek out a better employer who is willing to pay more.  

  
--

Bill

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