Monday, May 01, 2006
Dumbest Protest Ever
Something occurred to me today about this May 1st immigrant thing. The protests are about how America needs immigrant labor (i.e. under paid and un-skilled labor) So, in essence the protesters are fighting for the right to remain under paid and unskilled? Thats pretty dumb. During the whole prop 187 thing, the immigrant population was fighting for the use of public services. That I can understand. This thing is just dumb. They're saying "look at how useful we can be to you, if we never learn English, accept lower pay and never learn any valuable skills." Am I wrong?
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I heard yesterday that the protests were supposed to be in support of all immigrants - legal and illegal. You're essentially right, but also think about how low we consider $5/hour, but how that's a huge wage in other countries.
But you can't live n $5 an hour here and you damn sure can't send your kids to college on $5 an hour so your kids end up dropping out of school to help the parents raise money, and the cycle of uneducated unskilled immigrants continues down through generation after generation. I just don't know why any group of people would be fighting to maintain that system. They are crippling themselves economically and they are crippling thier kids economically.
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