James Schipper writes:
Dear Robert
If there is a job that nobody in a country won’t do, then either the wage offered is too low or else it is a job that shouldn’t be done at all. Suppose that a job is so dangerous that anyone working at it will die within 10 hours, then such a job shouldn’t exist.Let’s assume that Obama had died in a car accident 12 years ago. Would that mean that the US would be without a President today? Obviously not. Something else would have changed as well and somebody else would be President today. Yet, this is the type of fallacy that people often use with regard to immigration. They see that all the landscape workers in a city are immigrants, and then draw the conclusion that there would be no landscaping services if these immigrants had not come. Of course there would be landscaping without the immigrants, but it probably would cost a bit more.
The benefits of low-cost labor to consumers are often slight. Let’s assume that a hotel maid can clean 2 rooms in a hour and that she gets paid 10 dollars per hour. What if she got paid 16 dollars per hour? Then the price of a hotel room for a night would go up by 3 dollars. Not a huge sum.
Without legal or illegal immigration some goods and services would be more expensive, but why does nobody complain about the huge fees that dentists and lawyers charge? These fees aren’t going to be brought down by low-skilled illegal immigrants.
Regards. James
The capitalists are lying dirtballs. They always screw the customer as much as they can possibly get away with. Why else would they be so opposed to consumer groups and pro-consumer legislation? Why is it that every capitalist media outlet in the US absolutely hates Consumer Reports Magazine? That mag is one of the most hated magazines in the country. The entire rest of the media despises them.
But when they get to hire Hindu 1-B’s, scabs and illegals, they scream and yell about how cool it is for us consumers! Like they care about us! They don’t care about us. Actually, we, the consumers, are the enemy. So why are they on our side for once? Answer? They aren’t. They are just trying to get us on board with their cheap labor project which was done to line their pockets and for no other reason.
As far as I can tell, I am getting no benefits from these illegals, none, zero, zip, zilch. Sure illegals have replaced legal Americans in many jobs, but I never noticed the cost of anything going down. American workers replaced with Mexicans at a restaurant? Food costs as much as ever. I understand that landscaping costs as much as it ever did, but the capitalist small businessmen are making a lot more money hiring illegals as their labor costs are less. No construction contractor is lowering his prices because he hires illegals. He just makes more money.
I can’t think of one single item I might purchase where I think, “Wow, all those workers are illegals now, so I can get it for really cheap!”
Generally, when an industry goes all illegals, the prices are the same as ever, but the capitalist small businessmen are simply making a lot more money. They don’t bother to pass on the labor savings to us. They just pocket the profits.
There are literally no benefits for me here on the ground. I do not believe I am seeing lower prices for anything as a result of some company hiring illegals.
I remember when my town was all White and all the “jobs Whites won’t do” were being done by White men. Then many to most of them got replaced by illegals. I didn’t notice that anything became cheaper just because the Americans were replaced by illegals.
The software companies are replacing all of their American, mostly White, programmers with cheap, lousy Hindu 1-B scabs from India who can’t code their way out of a paper bag. The labor savings have been tremendous. They may pay a Hindu 1-B up to 50% less than a White man. So is software any cheaper? It seems like it costs as much as ever.
As a general rule, businesses do not pass on their labor savings to consumers. That is a massive delusion that a lot of people believe. They aren’t hiring that cheap scab labor so they can be cool and give you a great deal on your whatever. They are hiring them so they can pocket more profits. If they pass on their labor savings to you, they don’t get to pocket any profits from their cheap labor, which defeats the whole purpose of hiring them in the first place. I doubt if there is one business in the US that hires immigrants or illegals and passes on the full labor savings to consumers.
