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Is Los Angeles Becoming a Third World City?

April 29, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Ruben Navarrette Jr.
AJ
2008-04-29 11:12:15

One last rant:

This really is one of the stupidest articles I have read—so simplistic it is almost laughable. Not everyone relies on immigrants to raise their children, cut their lawn etc. People have gone to work for generations before and do it now and somehow do it themselves or––how Neanderthal in 2008, esp in LA–have their wives stay at home. People go to work everywhere in he country and eat out at restaurants where there are no illegal waiters/busboys. Correct me if I am wrong but In the Heartland and Big Sky country, they are functioning fine with legal workers at the gas stations and the restaurants. The illegal laborers just provide a cheaper source of labor for the restaurant industry—more profits. The prices probably wouldn’t be higher if legal citizens did their work—just fewer profits and I am sure everyone would be glad to pay 50 cents more for a burger to avoid having a huge medical bill for illegals and huge education costs to educate third world people who cannot and will not speak English or the huge police costs involved in arresting illegals for all kinds of crimes.

His checkmate sentence was one of the most illogical conclusions I have read.