[lit-ideas] Re: speaking of libraries in the United States of Earth
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:40:24 EDT
In a message dated 8/9/2005 6:02:09 AM Central Daylight Time,
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
They are here illegally and send money back to their family from what they
make here
HI,
Kind of what Walmart does in small towns...closes the doors for businesses
here and then sends the profits to Arkansas ... wonder what would happen if the
migrant workers were here legally and demanded living wages... (as, I
think, the ones who filed suit against Taco Bell did and won in Floriday...?)
There are lots of contractor-types who travel the countryside working (think
of construction workers, folks who install computer networks [there are a
couple of companies in the KC area who do that] and who employees get paid
living wages. (not much, but living...and lots of them don't see their families
for long long periods of time, either...)
Maybe if we could identify the companies which hire the migrant workers and
do what Mikey suggested--toss those folks in jail, maybe things would change.
I don't have a problem with those here legally--do have a problem with those
here illegally. There is absolutely no reason for the Top Guys to change
their mean behavior as long as there are littles who will bow down and be
grateful for the scraps from the table...
If they really wanted to help with their families back home, financially,
perhaps working in their own system to change it might be of even greater
benefit than to the few they help by sending home their wages...(and not
purchasing local goods...kind of like what we do when we go to Walmart instead
of the
local hardware store...if there is even one left...)
I understand that there is a lack of care as to whether or not people
contribute to the local economy in which they live ... I suppose, in my mind,
that
is better than not caring about about the people who live far away. Maybe we
ought to all send our $$ to the people far away and not to the poor person
out of work down the street...
I know there is a quota that gets lifted lots of times on types of workers
allowed in this country legally. I wonder what would happen if there were no
quotas at all and everyone who wanted to be here legally could be. Would
there be even more who would enter? What would happen then?
Thinking of those in my life who are out of work,
Marlena Boggs
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