Hey Americans! Follow The Laws!

  •  April 6, 2006

I was listening to the radio last night and the host (David Allen, local to Jacksonville) sparked a thought, or maybe it was his thought… ah, whatever.
Anyway, what has happened to this country over the last 80 years? We were once a patriotic nation that, for the most part, followed the laws as a patriotic duty. Today, American businessmen actively seek out illegal help.
Well, I’m going to make an appeal to businessmen everywhere.
PLEASE!!! Stop hiring illegal workers. Simply put, stop hiring them. Decide to be American citizens. Follow the law without big brother making more laws to enforce the ones we should be following already.

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  • http://Array Puzzlefeet

    Hey, Justin, Sen. Kennedy’s name is on the bill with Sen. John McCain. That is the other side of the aisle.

  • Sherard

    Epicurus, you got that right.  Let’s, see – 80 years ago – that would be 1926.  Oh yeah, shit was PEACHY keen in 1926.  Hell, NOBODY broke the law then.  I mean what happened with all those labor laws, the 40 hour work week, child labor restrictions, legal protection for unions ?  That must have been the suggestion of the law abiding and patriotic businesses, always looking out for their employees. 

    Nevermind the fact that 80% of the people drinking any kind of alcohol in 1926 was breaking the law.

    Wouldn’t want any of those pesky "facts" to get in the way of a good rant.

  • richard

    Uh Justin that 5% is not the amount of Americans that are out of work per se it is the amount that have applied for unemployment benefits. Do not get me wrong it is an indicator of a strong economy but it is in no way exactly how many unemployed people there are.

    So let us take this a little further what percent of 6.5 million (I believe this number to be low but in reality nobody really knows what it is for sure) of our current population? I think if you do the math you will see that it would not consume the unemployed pool.

    I totally agree with you this is a problem that begins with our law makers and can easily be fixed there, businesses are just a piece of the bigger issue of unenforced laws and our borders being left open which exposes us to attack.

    Personally I would use this issue as a platform for not only a safer more secure America, but as a tool to empty our welfare rolls and get the homeless off of the streets.  

     

  • http://www.ski-blog.com/ Justin B

    Consider for a second that we are hovering at an unemployment rate under 5%.  If we remove the 6.5M or so illegal workers in this country, who is going to backfill for almost 5% of our workforce?  And considering that the "Natural Rate of Unemployment", namely the number of unemployed that are consistently expected due to changing jobs, change in industries, environmental factors, etc., is estimated by most economists to be approximately 5%, you understand the predicament most businesses are in.

    Put simply, if not for the millions of illegals, our wages in this country would skyrocket simply due to the competition for workers.  Who wants to pick produce for $10 per hour when the local McDonalds is offering $12 since they cannot find workers either.  Add that to rising fuel costs, and while illegals bring all kinds of problems, they are necessary.

    The problem is not the businessmen ignoring the law.  It is Washington ignoring the problem and reality.  Having such ridiculously low quotas for immigrants and wide open borders and no enforcement of employment laws is not a problem with Businessmen.  It is with Washington.  The climate and the culture of our country is such that the businessmen that are using illegals, while certainly not blameless for the problem, are not the cause.  Washington is, plain and simple.

    So if you don’t like illegals, do something about it in November.  My state sent McCain and JD Hayworth who are leading the charge against illegals as well as brought out the Minutemen.  Kyl is fighting to change things too.  Look at the other side of the aisle at folks like Reid. 

  • puzzlefeet

    Seth, Check out how many former American corporations are no longer American corporations, they have reincorporated in a foreign country.

  • Epicurus

    We were once a patriotic nation that, for the most part, followed the laws as a patriotic duty.

    Right. 

  • Sherard

    Epicurus, you got that right.  Let’s, see – 80 years ago – that would be 1926.  Oh yeah, shit was PEACHY keen in 1926.  Hell, NOBODY broke the law then.  I mean what happened with all those labor laws, the 40 hour work week, child labor restrictions, legal protection for unions ?  That must have been the suggestion of the law abiding and patriotic businesses, always looking out for their employees. 

    Nevermind the fact that 80% of the people drinking any kind of alcohol in 1926 was breaking the law.

    Wouldn’t want any of those pesky "facts" to get in the way of a good rant.

  • Epicurus

    Sherard,

    I just find this notion of a "perfect" past that people of all ideological persuasions convince themselves of (generally on an issue by issue basis) to be rather bizarre.

  • WOOF

    Business decisions often do not look past the bottom line. Recall the Pinto or pay a out to the few people who are burned to death in low speed collisions?

    Recall the Firestone blowout tires, rolling over Ford Explorers etc .

    Fine those business using illegal labor big money, double it with every one found after the first, give whistleblowers 25% . Actively pursue criminal charges, then things will change

    Patriotism is the slew of American flags in front of the Hyundai dealer, a sales gimmick, not  a business policy. 

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