Thats right.
My Dad had a Sod Farm when I was growing up and the only people who would do that kind of HARD work was guys from Mexico.
And yes they where illegals.
But there were not any white boys that would or could do that kind of work.
not at the wages offered. but had the illegals not screwed with the suply & demand, bargaining situation by comming in and working for wages that don't reflect the amount of work for this job market.
had the illeagals not been there to interfear with the ballance, you would have a shortage of workers, and would have to offer more wages or better conditions to lure employees from competing farms (you can substitute any other bussiness here).
others would have to raise wages to compete with you. the pay would increase and eventually get to a point where people would be eager to get the job, because the amount of pay (or health insurance or other for of compensation)makes it worth it. of course you would end up paying them somewhere much closer to fair market value for their effort (for this job market, as it is they get paid a good wage compared to the mexican job market, but for an american who lives here perminantly, pays taxes on his wages, or can be tracked down to pay medical bills he skips out on, it's a starvation wage for back breaking conditions.
when people talk free trade they mean unrestricted trade. freedom to exploit the people and resourses of your land to whatever degree your conscience will allow (and from the conditions many of our comapnies will except from the people employed in their contract shops overseas, corperate americas conscience allows a lot of leeway)
for true free trade, all forign products sold here should be made to provide what we consider minimum working conditions and wages. or at the very least add tariffs to those that don't at least eqal to the cost of implementing these conditions.
