Reply #8: It pains business

[Robson]

The US Chamber of Commerce and the CEOs on the Business Round Table have been pained because they had no legal way to outsource well paid American jobs. Some jobs just can't be outsourced and that pained them seriously.

Now with Sen Kennedy and other disconnected Democrats in Congress's help that pain will be alleviated. There will be glee in the boardrooms.

If not for the abundance of cheap illegal labor these non-outsourceable jobs would have their labor rates pushed far higher from demand (remember supply and demand?). It would require that companies such as Wal-Mart compete for unskilled labor and offer higher wages and benefits. Without the unending flow of illegal immigration unskilled workers may have found their labor rates pushed higher than more skilled workers.

It outrages me to see the party of FDR buy into the DLC wing of rich corporatists and support this continued squeeze on working US citizens. Then they have the audacity to put forth a token minimum wage bill laden with special interest pork as a show that they support working Americans. Hell if it wasn't for non-enforcement of continued illegal immigration, the real minimum wage would likely have far outpaced the phony government inflation rate and a minimum wage law boosting it a dollar in 15 years would have been unnecessary.