Replies to post #377971 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Orvis]

AJ,
If you need anymore painting I have paintbrush and will travel. LOL

[odiemutt]

$40K paint job, $4k for plumber? Well it sounds like you've got your $10 million dollar estate so it's OK to tell the little people to shove off.

"Who the heck needs manufacturing jobs when we've got jobs like this?"

Obviously we don't need any mfg jobs, we can have 90% of the people just servicing the estates of the wealthy.

You're a jerk IMO (or maybe just a pompus ass).

[opnion]

The guy that is coming in today to fix your tv for $300 is not fixing a $300 tv is he? The majority of tv's now are throw away. That means they don't get repaired because the repair bill either exceeds the cost of a new tv or close to it. Would you buy a tv for even say $1,000 and then have a major repair problem develop out of warranty and the estimate is $700, would you repair the tv?

2006 is an election year for Congress and if you think that there will not be something passed on the currency issue then you are sadly fooled.

[conelda]

around here they commute from Mexico-

[skono4]

The plumbers who did work for me last year and charged $4000 did not arrive in a shipping container.
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A very large percentage of construction, factory and service jobs are going to illegal immigrants in California, Texas, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada and elsewhere. This doesn't contribute to the trade deficit but it beats the hell out of the bargaining power of local workers in those regions that are overrun with immigration. Both legal and illegal aliens concentrate in the same major metropolitan communities. When you combine the effects of manufacturing jobs lost to exports and the blue collar work going to cheap illegal labor you get a very depressed wage base for the whole labor force. This is very much a part of the political pressure to keep our borders open to trade and immigrants. Corporations want cheap labor and they dictate to Washington what US policy will be. That's the name of that tune.