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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.
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.
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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.