Re: On the Settler Question

On Fri, 09 May 2008 10:16:40 -0700, <dave.walters@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On one aspect of this. Generally Central American and Mexican
> immigrant labor do NOT directly sell the ranks of the unemployed.

If a worker takes a job in an open shop, taking work no American worker  
wants, because the remuneration and work standards fall so far below the  
U.S. norm--that worker is unemployed for many practical purposes. Bluntly,
 
the Mexican is doing a job that NO ONE SHOULD BE DOING.

A Mexican building "contractor" gathers together his brothers,  
half-brothers, and cousins, "fixes" the stairway on the Slavic landowner's
 
rental property--receiving less pay, using inferior materials and  
skill--on which stairway the Slavic landlord's black tenant breaks his  
neck because of the shoddiness of the work. That sort of thing--I'd  
wager--forms a large part of this "different economy."

Doing work that nobody else wants to do is NOT necessarily to do ANYONE a 

favor.

srd