BK>>  Nice theory, not true. Used to be Meat packing plants paid good
 BK>>  wages and Americans lined up for the jobs. There were such
 BK>>  plants all over the country, New York to Chicago to California.

 BA> And Nebraska, Omaha was once a major meatpacking town.

 Well, that's between Chicago and California. Last I heard.

 BK>>  The meat packing industry built plants in Nebraska and places
 BK>>  like that, hired illegal aliens, and cut wages to a point where
 BK>>  Americans couldn't live on the salaries. Americans held those
 BK>>  jobs, but the old plants shut down, and the illegal aliens did
 BK>>  take jobs that were filled by Americans.

 BA> Actually those plants were built in what were then small
 BA> towns - Lexington, Nebraska, is one, there are several
 BA> others in Nebraska and Iowa, and one in the thriving
 BA> metropolis of Phelps City, Missouri (that plant was closed
 BA> a couple of years ago when I went through there - Phelps
 BA> City consists of about four mobile homes situated next to
 BA> the North/South BNSF main line where it crosses US 136
 BA> between I-29 and the Missouri River).

 Now that I didn't know. When you build a processing plant, that
 is labor intensive, in an area where there is little available
 labor, it's likely you expect to find labor someplace. An just
 maybe someplace not really kosher.

 >>>>> MG>I don't know any American citizens who will
pick Lima Beans bent
 >>>>> MG>over in  the hot sun all day for $1.39 a bushel
and not medical
 >>>>> MG>benefits, do you?

 BK>>  I do know Americans will take construction jobs, those are plum
 BK>>  jobs, but there are more illegal aliens working in jobs that are  not
 BK>> agricultural than that are. Construction is one of the main  fields
 BK>> illegal aliens come her for.

 BA> In 2004 I had the roof replaced on a house I used to own,
 BA> the local (Plattsmouth,
 BA> Nebraska) contractor hired a crew of Mexicans to do the
 BA> work.  Most spoke no English, but they did do a good job on
 BA> the roof.

  Last time I had some work done on my roof the contractor
 pointed to some of the neighbor's houses and pointed out errors
 I had never, and would never have noticed. Like the shingles
 going down valleys overlapping the wrong way. Looked good, long
 term problems.

 OTOH, Americans could have done a good job on that roof also.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Klahn's law of economics - "Any sudden, drastic change is likely to be bad.
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