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[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Some years back Phillips Corporation (sp?) closed another one of their 
US plants and moved to Juarez. I had a  magazine assignment to do some 
shooting at the new locations and it was an  eye opening experience. 
Couple of bucks an hour and free bagged lunches looked pretty good to 
those folks. The company even provided free transportations to work and 
home in old school buses. Of course, the buses were not air conditioned 
and smelled vaguely reminiscent of month old porta potties.Summer in 
Juarez will fry cahones on the sidewalks.

Nonetheless, to a people who have spent generations being trod upon by 
their masters the opportunities looked inviting. Make a hundred dollars 
a week in Mexico and you move into the established middle class. 
Here,that might buy you gas to the local soup kitchen and there's the 
rub. I've watched many Americans get dirty and sweaty while busting 
their asses at tough labor.Our masters probably wished we'd  never 
learned to read and write, and consequently demand a fair share of the 
economic pie. Then, there would be no need to hire Mexicans and buy off  
their masters for the "business treaties" enacted.

Walt

> Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> We're seeing that down here. Most of the reconstruction down here is
> courtesy of Mexico...Americans would rather not get that dirty or sweaty.
> Gives me an all new appreciation of American blue collar workers who ARE
> willing to show up and follow instructions.
>
> ------------------------
>
> Screw that. There are plenty of US citizens who would gladly work
> construction. My grandfather was and my uncle still is a carpenter
> and general contractor.  Uncle is making a very good living at it.
>
> Makeshift businesses and their low class operators are just too lazy to
> do the paper work, pay payroll taxes, in some cases pay the minimum
> wage, provided workers compensation and the like.
>
> I ran a business and didn't hire one illegal alien. I did do alot of
> paperwork to get one Canadian/German citizen to work for my company
> legally. And all my legal employees enjoyed generous benefits.
>
> IMHO, folks that cannot run a legitimate and *legal* business with
> *legal* employees do not DESERVE to be in business.
>
> It's like a big corp. that lies about it's earnings for years and then 
> gets
> caught. Oh, we didn't pay all our taxes and hid our liabilities via dummy
> corporations. Gosh, anybody can run a successful businesses with
> rules like that!
>
> But again, they never truly did run a successful business. They don't
> *deserve* to be in business.
>
> Sames goes for shady contractors who break the law and favor hiring
> illegal immigrants. They don't *deserve* to be in business if they cannot
> run a business legally and by the book.
>
> 'Nough said.
>
> Scott
>