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As your ever helpful Minister Buckethead strove mightily to catch up on his blog reading, a couple items caught his eye. The Maximum Leader is a funny guy; very nice, and has excellent table manners. He has also recently examined the whole illegal wetback immigration thingy. We have discussed this matter here, and come generally to the conclusion that:
- Illegal Immigration is, uh, illegal,
- Wanting the border staffed with more than the national security version of the WallMart greeter is a good idea, and likely not racist,
- Use of the phrase "undocumented-Americans" is probably the worst instance of euphemistic hyphenating in recent memory, and
- Undocumented-American protestors marching through the streets with Mexican flags demanding the rights of American citizens is not only counterproductive, but kinda offensive even to the laid back and mild mannered Ministry.
But the dear leader has a couple fresh and pungeant ingredients to add to the festering pot of goo that is our national debate on immigration policy:
First, some resources on Mexico's own immigration policy; and second a thoughtful and not at all snarky reimagining of the day without a Mexican of recent memory.
[wik] My own thought, the day after, was that since that day went so well, we should try a day without a Mexican week. Then a month. Pretty soon, with the help of some nicotine gum and some well chewed pencil erasers, we could kick that habit cold.
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Uh . . . yeah. So, per your
Uh . . . yeah. So, per your link, I've got you on record as supporting raising the Toilet Cleaning and Grass Cutting wages to $12 - $18 per hour? I can quote you on that?
I actually feel dumber for having looked at that site.
I don't know that they would
I don't know that they would go that high. The dude on fries at McD's makes more than $4/hr, and that is a shitty job that leaves you smelling and feeling like grease no matter how many showers you take.
The thing is, having illegals do crap jobs saves the company hiring them money. But the rest of us pay the cost of having millions of illegals around to do those jobs. Medical costs, because they go to the emergency room when they get sick. The list is endless, and that's just monetary costs.
Social costs are there, too. Having a vast underground of unassimilated residents is not a happy thing, as the French have discovered.
Forcing some companies to obey the law - and pay someone more to clean the toilets is probably well worth the cost.
There are an estimated, what
There are an estimated, what 11-12 million illegals in the country? So we're seriously claiming that a population roughly the size of New York City and environs, dispersed all across the country, is blowing the wage curve for the other 300 million of us, and is the root cause of all these other economic ills? Color me skeptical.
Sorry, but some of y'all are being led down the garden path here by a political party this is, um, eager for a distraction, to say the least.
I'm not saying they're
I'm not saying they're blowing the wage curve - in fact, cheap labor provides real benefits to many people, and not just those whoe employ them. I am arguing that perhaps - given the other issues, it would be worth it for all of us to pay that extra money to get our lawns mowed in order to resolve a larger problem. Wages for Americans in crap jobs is really a subsidiary issue at best.
And you've got it wrong about the Republicans. I think that the higher powers in the party would dearly love to see this issue go away. It is the rank and file that is making a stink and insisting that people pay attention.
Perhaps we could cut down on
Perhaps we could cut down on childhood obesity by returning to the days when the kids cut the grass and raked the leaves for an allowance?
And maybe people would make less of a mess in bathrooms if they knew what it cost to pay someone a real wage to clean it up?
Where's a good Prop 187 when you need it ... oh wait, that idiot Davis killed it ... I knew I recalled him for a reason.
tsk tsk, B. It's "euphemistic
tsk tsk, B. It's "euphemistic", unless you're still quoting the guy. But I couldn't tell. You're missing the closing quotes. ;-)
You must have still been catching up on other blog reading...
Yes, of course you're right.
Yes, of course you're right. No matter how hard I shove the disc into my ear, I have so far been unable to install the spell checker in my head. It's too bad Word doesn't do completion checking on quotes like coding environments do with semicolons and such.