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Originally posted by Carrie@Nov 3 2003, 09:10 AM
Fletch I don't recall any newspaper's job to be establishing guilt before innocence and placing the burden of proof on the accused. 
Okay, so there are all of these little chinese women working in california selling dresses for a quarter, and mexicans in the hot sun picking vegetables for a quarter per bushel.
What do we do about it? *Should* we do anything about it?
Playing devil's advocate, there is something to be said for unskilled labor. Not everyone can be the CEO of a company and there is a place for "grunt workers". If these people are voluntarily and willingly doing these jobs, who are we to stop them?
If we actively enforced minimum wage laws and forced those businesses to pay those little chinese women $7 an hour, what would happen? I'd make a guess that the little chinese women would lose their jobs and have *no* income whatsoever.
I honestly can't see today's high school students being willing to get out in a field and pick anything, no matter the pay. Ewww! They'd get all dirty and smelly!
(Remember, devil's advocate - challenging the ideas, not you personally!)
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Its easy to sit on top of the hill and talk about the people down in the valley working hard.
Sure your high school kids wont go pick bananas in the sun, thats why there is a demand for it. Sure your undereducated white kids wont be able to be a CEO either. Most white kids in high school have no value for education anyhow.
I put a hard working man over a spoiled kid any day.
We have discussed this already havent we?
About Walmarts using a labor company that has been busted numerous times for illegals? People who shop at Walmart ( i dont there are none near me) and who eat Taco Bell of course wont complain about these things. Walmart support Chinese children labor with their 12 billion a year import, but of course its up to ME to prove that to you right?
So you can say we need them, (grunts and illegals) of course we do. But that doesnt make it right, and I am not here to prove the case either way.
Of course we need 'grunt workers' as you call them. That does not change the practice does it?
It must be nice to sit so many miles from everything and just cast them off as 'here say' and without proof.
Yeah im just some dumb white boy fighting for minorites.
If anything im just not BLIND like the rest of America.