Cheap Tomatoes
From an email forward sent to me by a friend:
Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don’t want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an income tax return, he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense.
He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people.
Illegal immigration is more expensive than you think.
Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics
Perhaps some of the kids were born here, do they qualify then?
I wouldn’t be shocked at all to find that illegals were getting welfare they aren’t legally entitled to.
TW: Good one!
Most of the items of this list are false. Change the word “qualify” to “does not qualify” in all of those statements. Just do a little research (call your local public assistance office) and find the truth. Illegal immigrants do not qualify for section 8, food stamps or assistance with energy bills.
If the amount of free benefits illegals get is considered …
Absolutely, Rob. Some of us have known this for quite a while. The truth is, there is nothing so expensive as “cheap labor”. Almost every honest employer knows this. It is really just a way to avoid modernization. Those who refuse to recognize and stop the invasion are supporting economic slavery, whether they know it or not. Ignorance is no excuse.
Unless they get phony documents; it’s quite popular to do this among the invaders.
what a bargain companies get cheap labor and others foot the bill. whats wrong with that? sounds pretty smart to me.
It is cheap labor for their (the illegals) employers for we foot the bill that you have quoted: “He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.”
Roma tomatoes are $1.25/lb
I like them better because the don’t have that tough skin that many others have.
Also, tomatoes are often machine picked (which is pretty cool to see).
Lettuce, OTOH…
This sounds more like the liberal argument that they have somehow overlooked. Because liberal social programs benefit illegal immigrants we should halt illegal immigration?
How about we should halt social programs for redistributing hard earned taxpayer money? How about we should halt illegal immigration because it is illegal?
I dislike illegal immigration no less than wealth redistribution and the one is not justification to oppose the other. Two wrongs do not make one right.
I wonder if all of those in favor of putting businessmen in jail when they hire an illegal (knowingly or not) favor putting government employees in jail for giving welfare benefits out illegally.
An email from a friend?
There’s a font of truth.