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Piecemeal reform is foll

No comprende, senor. No habla engles. Hable por favor mi lengua - este ahora es nuestro pais.

Anything for dirt cheap labor. And how many fast food restaurants do we need? We're fat enough already!!! If a few went out of business for lack of minimum wage labor would anyone suffer?

I'm not a Mormon, but I do recall a Mormon apostle saying once that "we work to live, we don't live to work."

Likewise, the purpose of the economy is to provide goods for people to live. The News's attitude seems to be that the USA and its people exist only to provide workers for rich businessmen. What a sad, demented, messed up view of the world.

Oh, and have you noticed how much worse the traffic has been lately? Get used to it. Thanks to massive immigration we'll all be spending more and more of our increasingly precious free time in traffic jams. So many people in this world don't know how to connect cause to effect. Connect the dots, folks! More immigration means lower wages, more crowded schools, more crowded roads, more water shortages, and higher taxes! That's how Los Angeles got to be Los Angeles.

"Utah's unemployment rate is exceedingly low. Seemingly every fast-food joint and retail establishment is advertising for help." - quoth the News

The first maxim of economics is that needs and wants are infinite, but resources are finite. At a low enough price demand for labor would be infinite, too. If I could pay $1 an hour (or if I were slightly richer) I could hire multiple servants to cater to my every whim - butler, maid, chaffeur, gardener, masseuse, tv channel changer...whatever.

What follows naturally from that is that "the economy" doesn't have any set number of workers it needs. The number varies indirectly with the price of the labor. Bring in 200 million new people tomorrow and we'd eventually find work for all of them. But would we as Americans be better off?

The fact is that every business today is skilled in the rhetoric of poor mouthing. Every job, apparently - programmers, doctors, nurses, teachers, construction workers, gardeners, farmers, an infinitum - is suffering an alleged shortage, in spite of the fact that business profits - the portion that the owners, not the workers, keep - are at record highs.

If what Wilkey says were true--and it's not--I would suggest he or she brush up on the Spanish language, and soon!

Having worked lived in the State of Utah for 10+ years, general working conditions and attitudes mirror the rest of the country, everybody wants to make "big money" but few want to "pay their dues", Any business owner that pays insurance, wages, taxes, etc deserves to enjoy the fruits of his labor. I've work alongside more immigrant labor than I can remember or count and have found the majority of them to be the hardest working people I know. I am not pro illegal immigration but I commend anyone who gives dedicated work, citizen or immigrant.

I will make the same offer to ANY employer who is short on help: Give me 24 hours, and I will have someone there to do the job for them. The only requirement is that I get to set the wage to be paid.

In that I have made this offer many times, I can only believe that the catch that stops employers from taking me up on this offer is that they are to darn cheap to pay a fair or competitive wage. They would rather pay slave wage rates to criminal illegal aliens.