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The was posted elsewhere:

"Re: Economist: Five million reasons to worry [on
> Germany's unemployment]
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> With unemployment so high, I wonder why they continue their "guest worker" programs.

For the same reason you see Mexican workers picking strawberries and lettuce and cotton and tomatoes and all the other crops along California's immense San Joaquin Valley: there is some work the pampered locals simply don't want to do.

The locals might do the work, if the wages hadn't been artifically depressed by illegals. Many of the jobs that are being lost in America are not to migrant farm workers, but to factory, construction and restaurant work. Chavez argues for control of the borders so that legal migrants would not have their wages undercut by illegals."

My comment:

The issues are complex, but one clear insight can be drawn: IF we open our borders to all "cheap" labor, then welfare for unemployed American workers should be reduced to the point where offered wages lure them away from taxpayer supported early retirement.

Carl S. Webber

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