WSJ editor: What will become of my well-manicured lawn if these nativist monsters have their way?
posted at 1:19 pm on July 27, 2007 by Allahpundit
From the geniuses who blew the lid off the Great Hot Air Attack Ad Conspiracy comes this plaintive cry, direct from the bowels of Greenwich, Connecticut, or whichever other tony ‘burb this guy calls home.
So help me, if he has to hire an American to cut his grass or, god forbid, do it himself, it’s on your heads.
Hotels and restaurants in places like Chicago, Miami and just about every other city would have to shut down without waiters, maids and others with dubious credentials. The well-manicured lawns in my home town would soon become weed gardens in the absence of the Mexicans who man landscape services. Americans genuinely worry about maintaining the rule of law, but the biggest threat to that is the disrespect for law created when legislative grandstanders pass draconian measures that the authorities are incapable of enforcing…
Washington efforts to reform Simpson-Mazzoli are plagued by the death struggle the two parties are conducting over control of the government. Republicans, who perhaps have noticed that they are losing that struggle, are frozen in the headlights of the anti-immigrant campaigns being conducted by nativists and vigilantes in their home states. Hate and emotion do not produce good laws.
The link goes to See-Dub because the article at WSJ is behind a proletariat-proof but doubtless well-manicured firewall. SD encourages you to e-mail the author, George Melloan, but I encourage you to e-mail See-Dub to encourage him to cancel his subscription. As with shamnesty itself, if we apply enough pressure he’s bound to back down! He’s done the job most Americans can’t afford to do in the first place; now it’s time for him to undo it. Send your complaints to seedub -at- hotmail.com. And be polite.
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What a clown.
Economics takes over. Restaurants will not shut down, they will have to pay more for wait staff that are legal residents. Will your meal cost more as a result? Probably, but isn’t it worth paying a few dollars extra for secure borders?
Ditto with the landscaping.
Leonidas Hoplite on July 27, 2007 at 1:28 PM
There, um, actually isn’t a link to See-Dub in there.
And I’ll never give up my subscription. My gosh, half my posts this year have been “WSJ DEMAGOGUES SHAMNESTY!” It’s a great reason to visit JYB!
That and the Rubenesque nudity.
see-dubya on July 27, 2007 at 1:30 PM
What link? There’s one to HA and one to this dip’s bio but none to JYB.
Alex K on July 27, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Cancelled my WSJ subscription years ago. Never went back.
IrishEyes on July 27, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Here’s the link. The Man can’t keep me down!
see-dubya on July 27, 2007 at 1:34 PM
Damn it, forgot the link. Added now.
Allahpundit on July 27, 2007 at 1:35 PM
Although I also canceled my 19 year long WSJ subscription over their open-borders position, I owe that paper a great debt of gratitude. Just like the NY Times truly educated me about liberalism, the Journal revealed for me the difference between Republican and Conservative.
JiangxiDad on July 27, 2007 at 1:43 PM
National security vs. East Coast twits unwilling or unable to run a lawnmower.
I’ll have to mull that one over…
Karl on July 27, 2007 at 1:44 PM
We are facing a dystopian nightmare if the nativists take away our underclass!
Dork B. on July 27, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Oh boo hoo.
Cut your own damn lawn and cook dinner at home.
Nativists and vigalantes, huh? This moron doesn’t realize he’s feeding the vicious cycle. People aren’t home because they all have to work more, so they can afford lawn care, eating out in restaurants, and being pampered in hotels.
Guys like this are just worried they will lose their Spanish speaking peasants. I mean, you really haven’t made it as an elitist until you have minorities doing menial tasks for you. But, ya, I’m the bigoted racist nativist.
By the way, does anyone have any hard evidence of vigilante violence against illegals? Anyone? I wonder what the ratio is of crimes committed by illegals, vs. crimes committed against illegals.
reaganaut on July 27, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Fixed. I fess-up to living among the twits. I mowed lawns for money as a kid. I haven’t seen a homeowner or his kid mow the lawn around here in decades. And not all that many shovel their own snow anymore!
To do any manual labor around here is as repugnant as Mrs.Dreysdale seeing Granny wash clothes in the cement pond.
JiangxiDad on July 27, 2007 at 1:50 PM
I’m writing this down:
emotion… does… not produce.. good law.
Got it. Thanks Wall St Journal!
cadetwithchips2 on July 27, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Westfield, NJ, home of two very exclusive country clubs (any bets that he belongs to one of them, if not both?) that would undoubtedly have to charge members more if they had to hire legal residents for the landscaping work.
I’m shedding crocodile tears.
Leonidas Hoplite on July 27, 2007 at 2:00 PM
Another textbook example that illustrates how out of touch the elites are with the rest of the country. As if mowing your own lawn or cooking at home is some kind of hardship.
God, what a spoiled little crybaby – or may I quote The Boss: Boo-freakin’-hoo.
No matter how much AP, see-dub, or others choose to mock this guy (or those that hold the same general attitude as him), it will never be as much as deserved. Nevertheless … mock away.
thirteen28 on July 27, 2007 at 2:02 PM
My HOA has illegals doing the job this year. They SUCK at it. It’s absolutely the worst job on lawn care in two decades.
Well manicured? You might be the lucky ones then. Now the Asians who do some neighborhood lawns, they do pretty good work, even haul the grass away in the ubiquitous black truck with wood side boards ( gotta be scores of them). But the illegal alien hispanics? Shoddy work, loud crappy music, cant edge or trim without guidance.
I mow and trim my own lawn, I actually like it. But the greenbelt behind my house looks like________.
shooter on July 27, 2007 at 2:03 PM
hehe. thx for the chuckle.
shooter on July 27, 2007 at 2:04 PM
While in high school, I was able make lots of money doing landscaping, working at places like McDonalds, and a little janitorial work on the side as well. I had a taste for expensive road bicycles that my parents would not support. Today my son can’t get a job in any of these areas because the illegals are doing them for less money.
My relatives own Yard maintenance businesses in Maryland. They feel the price under cutting by those using illegals, but have resisted doing so at this point. Primarily they are hiring high school and college students. And thankfully they are doing quite well. A lot of their find were not as fortunate. They were forced to closed shop as they could not compete with the slave labor rates.
I just purchased a new home in an upscale neighborhood in DFW area of Texas. When I lived in California I did all my own yard work (my lot was very small). I do the same here in Texas. I have been approached by several contractors concerning my yard maintenance. When they are done with their spiel, I inform them I will only hire them if they do not use illegal labor. This always immediately ends the conversation. I will never allow these people on my property or any contractor that employees them.
It’s gotten to the point where they will yell comments at me if I’m doing yard work as they drive by. This is just fine with me. I enjoy working with my kids in the yard. I’m sure one day one of them will get bold enough to go beyond simple comments. As retired Vet of 23 years, I am more then capable of taking full advantage of the Texas Defense by Gun Law.
They are not doing jobs Americans won’t. They are doing jobs at a pay scale Americans are not willing work.
Zaire67 on July 27, 2007 at 2:05 PM
And they still refer to us as “anti-immigrant” while knowing full well it’s not the case. In my opinion, this sort of purposeful use of the paper to mislead makes them no more trustworthy than the NY Times.
The Wall Street Journal represents corporate America, which is the beneficiary of cheap illegal alien slave labor. If the Wall Street Journal will smear Americans and mislead readers solely because they stand to make a profit or to support their personal interests … why would I trust that they’ll provide me with accurate financial advice?
The Wall Street Journal has proven that they’ll lie to their readers if it suits their agenda.
Gregor on July 27, 2007 at 2:06 PM
Wow, I didn’t know what a “nativist” (code for racist) country we lived in, with a majority of our people being a bunch of vigilantes who want the borders secure and immigration law enforced being motivated solely by over-emotional racism and xenophobia.
How dare we let racism get in the way of his manicured lawn! I feel so much white guilt now I don’t know how I’ll be able to cope with such injustice. If illegal immigration results in preventing just one weed from growing on his lawn, it’s totally worth it!
Hollowpoint on July 27, 2007 at 2:11 PM
I get a kick out of the “Undocumented Immigrant” pictures that Flash up on the television screen nearly every time some comment-tater talks about illegals.
It’s always of a group of pleasant looking Mexicans bent over in some bean patch working theirselves to death.
Where’s the pictures of the group of (and they’re always in groups) Mexican males (shaved and tattooed heads)hanging out at a back street car wash…. or the overcrowded Emergency Room full of Mexicans with their herd of screaming kids awaitin free medical help… or the barrio like low rent neighborhoods with the junker cars on the dirt that used to be lawns.
If we’re going to talk about illegals lets not forget to touch on the social baggage that comes with letting hundreds of thousands of uneducated, lowskilled, destitute people practice unfetterd mass migration into our country every year.
I live amongst this in southern Cal and see it nearly every day. Somehow I don’t think my congressmen are seeing quite the same picture.
I know……. I’m just a white biggot full of hate. This has nothing to do with watching my country deteriorate around me. This has nothing to do with hearing of all the California hospital closings. This has nothing to do with the grief caused by all the stolen identities. This has nothing to do with all the Mexican flags seen in the windows or flying from small flag poles in the yards throughout the barrios. This has nothing to do with the detrimental effect on our public education system in S. Cal.
Nope, this is just about bigotry. Plain and simple.
Ernest on July 27, 2007 at 2:12 PM
I left but then came back to say thanks Zaire67. You wrote much of what I wanted to say, but I get too hurried to write that much ( poor typing skills as well).
Thanks and here’s to our kids.
I just wish all American kids could make a buck by mowing lawns, like we used to do. It is sad.
shooter on July 27, 2007 at 2:14 PM
So he wants us to abandon the RULE of LAW for the RULE of LAWN (care)? Brilliant!
Nethicus on July 27, 2007 at 2:14 PM
Typical of how lefties view “those poor, downtrodden, helpless little brownskins”. That’s all they’re good for, lawn care and busing tables … yeah and *THEY* call *US* racist!
Tony737 on July 27, 2007 at 2:15 PM
Yeh, it’s the biggest joke of the year: the WSJ does not believe in capitalism. Yes, if all the illegals suddenly disappeared, there would be tons of job vacancies. But they aren’t going to all suddenly disappear at once! And if there are fewer of them over time, this amazing thing called The Free Market* will find a way to work.
*Google it!
MamaAJ on July 27, 2007 at 2:17 PM
I recently spent significant time in Palos Verdes Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, two very tony areas south of L.A. On my daily drive, all of the homes on both sides of the street started in the $5 mill range; many were in the $10-$15 mill range.
I come from the South; down here, even the wealthier folks seem to take a little pride in doing some of their own yard work. I guess I could hire it done myself, but when the yard’s looking good – I sorta like knowing I did it.
But in So Cal … well, I kept noticing that there were never any white folks cutting the lawn. So for several weeks, I made a point of wandering around trying to find SOMEBODY, anybody, doing their own yard work.
I didn’t find it. Not one time. In two months.
California can’t survive without illegal immigration. The weeds will quickly start eating the rich folks. You watch and see.
All of which is yet another good reason to enforce the laws.
Professor Blather on July 27, 2007 at 2:18 PM
Mowing causes global warming. Stop Now!
Do Like Trent “Bad Rug” Lott, Let goats do your lawn.
Grown and pick you own citrus. ( Mrs
FaEdwards)Stop exploiting illegal labor!
TheSitRep on July 27, 2007 at 2:18 PM
This chowder head feels free to call anyone who disagrees with his immigration positions a nativist and hater, but can you imagine the howls of outrage if someone pointed out that he is, in fact, exploiting poor brown people so that he doesn’t have to mow his lawn or cook his meals?
student on July 27, 2007 at 2:27 PM
I love the logic. “We must have illegals to do crappy jobs and if you dont agree that makes you a racist”
Maybe I dont want to force illegals into crappy jobs. Maybe I want some smuck to pay $12 dollars an hour to get his lawn done.
If there is work to be done the economic answer isnt to pass the work off to people who will take less for it. Sometimes the answer is to get someone to pay more to get the work done.
Maybe its less racist to push for closed borders than it is to push for the hiring of illegals as dirt cheap labor.
William Amos on July 27, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Hey wait a minute, aren’t those service jobs that we can do without?
TheSitRep on July 27, 2007 at 2:31 PM
I am just waiting for the day when one of these weinies calls me a ‘nativist’ to my face and then I am going to go ‘native’ all over his butt.
DoctorDentons on July 27, 2007 at 2:39 PM
Melloan Jimmy who?
Mcguyver on July 27, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Come on, you know there’s no snow…….global warming and all.
Harpoon on July 27, 2007 at 2:48 PM
JiangxiDad on July 27, 2007 at 2:49 PM
*BRUSSELS*!?!?! The city that became the very Head of dreaded “no-border-is-a-good-border” European Union hydra! He was obviously implanted with a chip which is causing him to spread the North American Union meme here. Is he part of the SPP?!?
Actually, that EU-style “we-are-the-world” attitude may indeed be part of his thinking, and – as is typical people who think anybody who disagrees with them is evil (usually a trait of the Left) – he thinks there can’t possibly be any validity to conservatives arguments, simply because they’re not his arguments.
eeyore on July 27, 2007 at 2:49 PM
So he wants us to abandon the RULE of LAW for the RULE of LAWN (care)? Brilliant!
Nethicus on July 27, 2007 at 2:14 PM
RULE OF LAWN. Love it! Somebody send that to Melloan.
captivated_dem on July 27, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Mr. Melloan might have spent too much time in Brussels.
So, there might be something to this book, which is a great read.
How about xeriscaping more in California? Also, before the Hispanics mowed the lawns, the Asians did in the day time, while studying engineering and other specialties at night. Most of them were probably legal too.
Best solution w/b to reacquaint the teenagers what it means that money doesn’t come from the bank.
Entelechy on July 27, 2007 at 2:51 PM
To make a decent analogy, I guess that would actually be the heart… sorry.
eeyore on July 27, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Okay, okay, so I’ve tried to defend The Journal in recent weeks. But the table cloth has been pulled out from under the China with this one.
We can’t dispute the principle behind the supply & demand argument Mr. Melloan makes: less labor = increased cost/prices. I feel for a farmer who has crops rotting in the field and suffers financial pain as a result of the labor availability issues…sucks for him and our food will cost more. We’ve all joked about paying an extra nickel for a head of lettuce if it means hiring LEGAL citizens/immigrants for more money to pick the crops. But the ‘just let them come and don’t punish their employers who are CLEARLY in violation of a 20 yr old law’ argument is not worth defending. My hands are in the air on that one.
I will, however, repeat that The Journal is not all about ‘big business’ and corporate America! Something like 65% of the readership is Small Business (defined by let’s say less than 500 employees but don’t quote me here). The Journal is about business, money, markets, regardless of size and segment. Get over that argument already!
Biffstir on July 27, 2007 at 3:13 PM
DOH! Just realized the irony in my use of China, errr, china. Hope Rupert wasn’t looking! :)
Biffstir on July 27, 2007 at 3:25 PM
One could argue that really “good” laws rarely need to be enforced, primarily because they are almost never broken. So enforcement is may be a necessary, but not a sufficient condition — to prove that a law is really worthy. On the other hand, a law that is perpetually violated and NEVER enforced is at best “useless,” probably detrimental, and arguably, a “bad” law.
Since our immigration laws are not enforced, are they “bad” laws? Let’s face it, the executive branch is not going to waste its time trying to enforce something that is unworkable or something that taxes its resources into oblivion. Hmmm. No new legislation has been passed, right? That may not be a bad thing, since the cure for “bad” old laws is almost certainly NOT “bad” new legislation.
Seems to me, if anyone is employing “hate and emotion” in order to pass new legislation, it would be the “hate and emotion” that it directed AT the electorate BY the members of the executive and legislative branches of government. The so-called “hate and emotion” expressed by the constituents has had the net effect of simply STOPPING any further action (viz. by the legislative branch of government).
CyberCipher on July 27, 2007 at 3:25 PM
But have you thought this through? If Americans get off their fat, dead *sses and do their yard work, they won’t be able to blame their best friend for making them fat. Furthermore, the pharmaceutical companies will lose a LOT of money (Lipitor sales will tank), Jenny Craig will go out of business, and the medical doctors won’t be able to do all those quadruple by-pass heart surgeries. The MDs might even have to switch disciplines and start to address that OTHER widespread epidemic routinely found everywhere in mainstream American society, viz. mental illness.
/sarcasm off
(Just messin’ with ya’ a bit, that’s all.)
CyberCipher on July 27, 2007 at 3:43 PM
The fact that the “readers” consist of small business owners does not mean the Wall Street Journal is not about Corporate America or “big business.” Almost all of those “small business owners” are striving to become “big business.” The management of the Wall Street Journal bases their decisions on this fact, and of course … on the source of advertising dollars, which is Corporate America.
The paper’s customers, regardless of the size of their business, read the Wall Street Journal because they feel it provides them with information which will help them succeed (increase profits).
It’s naive to think the Wall Street Journal’s support for open borders and zero penalties for illegal alien employers is not based on this fact. They’re well aware that business owners (their readers) want cheap labor.
It should also be noted that a good portion of the Journal’s readers are not business owners at all, but rather investors. And these investors are investing in what?
Corporate America
Gregor on July 27, 2007 at 3:46 PM
It would appear that this reporter is bemoaning the loss of slave labor. What will he and his gated community cohorts do if they can no longer count on slave labor to make their lives enjoyable? Maybe, just maybe, they could pay their workers/slaves the minimum wage that the libs are always crying about? John edwards suggested $9.50 as a minimum wage. Wonder how much the lobster bisque will cost this reporter when the “undocumented Americans” join the food service union.
clawjockey on July 27, 2007 at 3:59 PM
1) If the illegals are doing all the lawn mowing, why’re the red-neck marooons buying the big honking riding mowers?
2) The person behind the pushmower is me. The poor sap cutting saplings, trees, and trimming brush is #1 son. The poor sap clearing brush to the burn pile cut by #1 son is #2 son. The chick blithely at the wheel of the mower in the halter top, and sunglasses and parental-scowl-inducing shorts for the pickups that rumble past is daughter #1 … The rest are in the house clearing the table, loading the dishwasher, running the dryer and vacuuming.
Ooooh! Mr. Westchester doesn’t have kids and therefore don’t know what they’re for! Thought they were just a drain on finances, not a future work force on the yard AND the house! If he didn’t know that basic truth of 5,000 years of human records, what good is his ignorant opinion?
3) Hey, with current trends of lots at .25 acre and houses at .22 acre, what’s there left to mow?
naliaka on July 27, 2007 at 4:01 PM
So not only do produce farmers receive welfare directly from the government through subsidies, they also want to push the burden of “caring” for their employees off onto the taxpayers as well. Could you imagine if this was Ford, GM or Chrysler? If you can’t make it in your business, find another business. Stop living off the rest of us.
jeffNWV on July 27, 2007 at 4:09 PM
heres an idea, cut welfare and make the people who are physically able to mow lawns and buss tables do it. The physical excercise will help them become more fit which in turn will help them not need universal health care. but hey what do I know Im just an evil conservative.
CaptainObvious on July 27, 2007 at 4:12 PM
Hmm. Sounds sinister.
A lot of investors are investing in stocks that will pay them dividends for their retirement. They are buying stocks today, one at a time, two at a time or through mutual funds, hoping to get some cash to live on after they retire, a couple thousand a month, if they’ve saved carefully – money saved and invested that was left over from bills, expenses, mortgages AND taxes and will be taxed AGAIN by the ravenous USG. They mow their own yards.
So, YEH, they’re investing in Corporate America. Damn straight! They are providing the capital that Corporate America uses to invest and develop new products and businesses, then pays them back for the use of their money. There’s a risk involved – the USG might punitively cripple the companies, over tax them, put on new regs – and force the company out of business. Then what for the little guy? He don’t have the luxury to subscribe to the WSJ.
naliaka on July 27, 2007 at 4:13 PM
CyberCipher on July 27, 2007 at 3:43 PM
CC, you left out stomach stapling (AKA gastric stapling or gastroplasty :)
Entelechy on July 27, 2007 at 4:15 PM
By hiring illegals, Liberal Lefties get lower cost help, because otherwise, they’d have to abide by all the rules that the Liberal Left put on the labor pool to “protect the worker.”
The “protected US worker” got squeezed out of work because the cheapskate Liberals want their lux but don’t like paying for it or all the bother of reporting everything. They push all the rules and regs on the one hand, but at home, they look for the easy cheap.
Isn’t this all a dodge to get around the onerous workplace requirements set in by busy-body gov’t social engineers?
naliaka on July 27, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Oh Juan, my lawn died in your care tonight
You must’ve been deported
My lawn died in your care tonight…
(Apologies to…The Cutting Crew, natch)
James on July 27, 2007 at 5:29 PM
It should also be noted that a good portion of the Journal’s readers are not business owners at all, but rather investors. And these investors are investing in what?
Corporate America
Gregor on July 27, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Gregor, while a good portion of The Journal’s readers are indeed investors and of high net worth, many ARE business owners. Your suggestion is not based on the facts (I work here, you’ll have to trust me on this one, I have the research).
Again, what investors do with the information they gather from any media property much less TWSJ is up to them. But it’s safe to say that The Journal’s readers probably do have significant portfolios representing substantial stock ownership in American companies large and small.
One last thing: the edit covers global companies and not just corporate America ;)
Biffstir on July 27, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Huh?! Duh. Did I suggest otherwise? Did you read my entire comment? Did you read the comment I was responding to?
Exactly right, which only solidifies my argument that the Wall Street Journal should not be trusted to act in the best interest of the United States, but are instead more likely to act in the best interest of their “customers.”
Wall Street Journal customers = Corporate, small business, and investment interests worldwide. All of which benefit immensely by cheap labor.
Gregor on July 27, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Melloan hates America, and he’s too emotional while doing it. That does not produce good columns in the WSJ, Mr. Melloan.
jaime on July 27, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Attention rich snobs. If you are to lazy to do yard work and don’t want to pay a legitimate wage for someone to do it this still does not mean the only choice is to import slave labor to take care of it. There are these inventions called condos where there are profesional groundkeepers that maintain the property.
Resolute on July 27, 2007 at 7:26 PM
Oh, come on. there’s plenty of hay to be made here without trotting that out.
Biffstir, thanks for chining in on this. I still think your paper’s one of the best in the country; I’m just weary of their approach on this issue.
see-dubya on July 27, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Just using Melloan’s logic: he disagrees with me, therefore it must be hate and emotionalism.
Anyway, since he disparaged me without provocation I’d say the “hate” and “emotion” labels can be reasonably argued to apply to Melloan more than to me based on that one fact alone. In addition, his column acknowledged that the Rule of Law was a reasonable argument, but my opinion must be caused by hate and emotionalism, regardless. That sounds emotional and hateful to me.
By the way, there were several reasons to oppose the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill besides just Rule of Law, and none of them that I saw (except from people like Melloan) involved hate or emotionalism. It’s plain to see that the Editors and the Editorial Board at the WSJ hate the people who opposed that Immigration Bill.
jaime on July 27, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Sounds similar to what plantation owners said about slaves before and during the civil war. “What will happen to our plantations if we don’t have slave labor?! The price of cotton will rise to the point that no one will be able to afford it. Plantations will go under. Whole industries will fail! Families will be destroyed!,, ” Just about every slogan used to keep the illegal slave labor here in this country is similar to that used by slave owners a hundred fifty years ago. Even the rational that illegals just want a better life,, is similar to the rational some whites would use to justify slavery,, that,, “though they are slaves here, they are better off than they were in Africa.”
Does anyone really think that the illegals will remain happy with slave labor wages?? Does anyone really think that they will remain content to be viewed as “the ones that cut our grass and the ones that wash our clothes and make our tacos!”? They will not. They will form into a political group as powerful as any,, and it will be Marxist in nature. They will protest, strike and riot. None of this is that difficult to see.
JellyToast on July 27, 2007 at 11:43 PM
George Melloan probably thinks he lives in a culturally diverse neighborhood thanks to the people who mow his lawn and serve him lunch.
doufree on July 28, 2007 at 12:01 AM
How is this comment any different than the Howard Dean comment about Republicans speaking in front of minority crowds? Or Joe Biden’s famous line about Indians in convenience stores? There seems to be a not-so-subtle implication there that no one is apt to take them to task for, except here, praise be to allah(pundit).
Captain Scarlet on July 28, 2007 at 3:13 AM
What Leonidas Hoplites (BTW, cute classical reference there, Leo) said in the first comment is exactly right. Economies adjust.
The study of such adjustments is what economics is all about, and it is simply mind-boggling that the WSJ employs so many people who apparently cannot grasp how this concept of adjustment applies to immigrant labor issue. What we have now is a large, rapid expansion of the low-skilled work force fueled by the annual importation of an estimated 500,000 illegals. Reduce that influx and the economy will simply … adjust.
Not disaster, not collapse, just adjustment.
Ali-Bubba on July 28, 2007 at 5:11 PM
May a thousand lyme-infested ticks infest his Gucci pennyloafers!
profitsbeard on July 28, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Department of Redundancy Department Alert:
Sorry, meant “lyme-infected
profitsbeard on July 28, 2007 at 7:49 PM