War of the future: gap between rich and poor growing

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by August

By reasonable i assume you mean above minimum wage?

Well people work at places like Wal-mart for around that amount. Besides laws of supply and demand apply here. Illegal workers short circuit that process.

People "work" at Wal-mart for "around that amount" (whatever that means) because it's not really "work". If you offered above minimum wage to those folks that work at Wally-World to do real physical labor, I doubt you'd get very many to take the job. I would hazard a guess that if you went to the local unemployment office and offered "around that amount" to the entire line waiting for their unemployment check, food stamps and other entitlements, they wouldn't be willing to do the work that illegals do either.

Laws of supply and demand do apply here. There is a demand for people willing to do physical labor for a low amount of money and there is no supply of American workers willing to do this. Either the demand side has to change (and we pay higher prices for our food because higher wages are paid to the employees) or the supply side has to change (people become willing to work for less in order to have a job). Illegals fill this gap. Remove them from the equation and one or the other (or a compromise of the two) have to take place.