Actually what this article presents is pure demagoguery:
Never mind the law, we want better burritos!
And by extension, we want a better bottom-tier labor force!
Not just that, we want that bottom-tier labor force to be underpaid!
We want superior peons to prop up our desire for cheap service industry goods!
And that is supposed to be a Tea Party principle?
Sure, let’s discuss getting rid of mandatory union membership requirements and revising or eliminating the minimum wage, and getting rid of insurance requirements.
Let us understand that when we do so, wages will be affected by the number of people available for those jobs, and bringing in more foreign workers, legal or illegal, will do nothing but depress wages beyond the effect of all those domestic policy changes. And let us be very clear that if those foreign workers are illegal the wage depression effect will be even greater.
Now perhaps some people are okay with having a permanent underclass of illegal or quasi-legal guest workers. Certainly most have little issue with the cheap overseas manufacturing labor, so why not just import it.
But does no one have any issue with permanently excluding Americans from those introductory jobs? If all those first jobs with McDonalds disappear from the resumes of our children, how exactly will they ever show the job experience needed to move on to the better paid jobs we expect for them?
Leaping to endorse a foreign worker underclass is ideology-wise and dollar-foolish. It is sad to see it endorsed like this.
