Illegal Immigrant Strike Devastating Wall Street

Early reports suggest several publicly held Car Wash Chains may not be able to weather the storm from today's illegal immigration strike without raising the price for the Sooper Dooper Number 1 Inside and Out w/ Undercoating Cleaning 50 cents.

This has the car wash soap industry reeling, though undercoating is steady amid reports that they never really put it on anyway. Chamois manufacturers are hoping they can get through this ringer without too much in losses and the sponge market is feeling squeezed.

Meanwhile, Tru Value is expected to take major losses on a large back stock of hand garden implements, while Dollar Stores report increased earnings from unanticipated high store traffic from illegals who simply blew the day off to go shopping instead of attending protests. Executives point to that trend as a sure sign that the current illegal immigrant population is halfway to being assimilated. "If they get anymore Americanized, we'll have to blow right past Mexico and start importing help from Guatemala," said one unidentified executive.

Next thing you know they'll want full bennies and two weeks vacation. If that happens, look for employers to lobby the government to send them home.

Comments

[Sgt. York]

Everybody (except Rep & Dem politicians) wants to see the laws prohibiting the hiring of illegal workers enforced. This means employers being hit with huge fines for 'companies' and jail time for the person who knowingly hired the illegal worker.

[Rick]

Amen York!

[Skyboxx]

LMAO! Too funny

[Jh]

It's funny how people seem to be all against these immigrants protesting.. yet they aren't at all against cheap labor providing them their UPS packages, their food supplies, their products in stores, etc.

So.. I'm amused that people want it both ways. THey consider Wal-mart the closest thing to church for sunday activities.. but they seem not to want the illegal workers who help get the products loaded and unloaded inside the non-union store.

If we deported all illegals, the transportation system and delivery / supply chain would fall apart.

[Rick]

jh: Dont forget that most of that Chinese garbage in Wally World comes from slave labor.

[jh]

Rick:

Chinese labor makes it. Immigrant labor unloads it. Immigrant labor loads it. Immigrant labor delivers it.

Oftentimes, these are illegal.

If the US was interested in worker reform, then the cost of what we consume will go up to levels that are dramatic.. and people will be offering their own souls to get the low costs back.

Oh wait, we already are. My point is, you can't have both. You either have low prices and don't ask where it comes from.. or you have high prices and no shame about where it came from.

[FloridaPatty]

You are so bad.

[DoorMart]

The country will survive w/out illegals

Business will have to rely on a true free market for labor...not the current "black market labor".

Prices will not go up much, if at all, because people will refrain from buying at the higher price. Supply and demand. Most products are not gasoline.....that cheap stereo from Communist China isnt as needed as gasoline

It seems the Business Socialists love the illegals....but real Americans do not.

[Rick]

SO asking people to simply get a work visa and live here legally, like say the 100's of thousands of Chinese in the 1870-80s. The Hmongs, Vietnamese, Cambodians and Thais a hundred years later is out of the question? Seems that since it's been done before, it can be done again. That would very likely keep the mules and dealers down a little and let more "low skill" labor in. On the positive side loads of them are contributing to dead people's Social Security Accts.

[IMHERE]

Sooo, went without a hitch yep I am hurting. Just spent a few at the grocer, target, walgreens and ate at the local american family owned restaruant. I feel patriotic. How bout you guys, wadyado?

[Sgt. York]

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC - DUKE CASE
Photo lineup a sham and in 1998 she accused her then-husband of threatening to kill her but failed to appear at a court hearing on the complaint, which was dismissed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060501/ap_on_sp_ot/duke_lacrosse

[Rick]

IMHERE,
I'm a firefighter so with the free flowing Corona & Dos Equiis plus what I suspect was NOT oregano we got to still benefit from our guests. Fortunately though you and the workers at "the grocer, target, walgreens and ate at the local american family owned restaruant." that you mentioned will take care of the medical bills. Thanks for contributing to the American Dream.

THE WHOLE WORLD HATES US; THEN WHY ARE THEY BASHING DOWN OUR DOORS TO LIVE AMONG US?

[splashtc]

It was heaven today in midtown nyc. I could walk 3 feet without bumping into anyone. ALL the people on the streets were civilized. The trains were wonderful too-crowded but not mobed and again so humane and civilized. Send them all packing.

[SinCerely]

Sphlastc, I could not agree more. I work with the public in a city hospital. These foreigners, illegals are rude and not in the least civilized. I agree send them packing.

[Jane]

The illegals are taxing our system, the cost for everyone is going up.

[IMHERE]

THE WHOLE WORLD HATES US; THEN WHY ARE THEY BASHING DOWN OUR DOORS TO LIVE AMONG US?

Posted by: Rick | Monday, May 01, 2006 at 07:24 PM

Its called Money, Americans get treated like parents whose children can't wait for them to die and get their inheritence or mommy and daddy I want more. It always mommy and daddys fault.. Same as that bad ol USA, WHAAAAAA

[rwilymz]

The US has laws about who/when immigrants come and live here; that's fine. It's largely connected to filling out forms. Wow. Such hard work! The US Consulate will even supply the pencil if you ask.

But we have confusing forms and officious bureaucrats, and rather than wade through the morass of bureaucracy, it's easier to just come here and not do the paperwork.

Then, because these people are here, and most are willing to work, people who need things done hire them [49% are hired by individual citizens to do lawncare, childcare, house-cleaning, etc]. We've got people here in violation of the law and then others hiring them.

All else being equal, which is illegal? Hiring people? or being somewhere without permission?

Only being somewhere without permission is illegal. But INS can't properly police that on their own, so they ask for help, and Congress creates "proximate crimes" -- crime-once-removed.

Hiring illegals now becomes a crime, and everyone who does any hiring is required to come up with methods to determine who is a legal resident and who isn't -- and they get bossy and presumptive, and they push the requirements off onto the prospective employee: "you must have this document and that document, and something else notoarized to prove that you are legal". And now we're demanding that each individual citizen justify himself when he wants to find a job.

...all because the government doesn't want to do their own job.

Other proximate crimes: 1] penalizing stores for selling cigarettes/alcohol to minors ... *YOU'RE* the cops, *YOU* police the thing; don't make retailers do it for you. 2] attempting to get on an airplane with your 4th amendment unviolated. 3] the sex-offender registry concept is entirely problematic. 4] so is the entire child support system.

[bandit]

Dunkin' Donuts was open and fully staffed. Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...donuts.

[Millie]

SplashTC,

By branding them with terms like "illegals" you are dehumanizing them, which makes it easier for you to so curtly announced they should be "shipped back" instead of realizing that they are people. People who were desparate enough to uproot themselves and take a sometimes very dangerous route to get here and try to build a life for themselves. You call them uncivilized and rude, and I say you don't have to be born somewhere else to be those two things.

[rwilymz]

"By branding them with terms like "illegals" you are dehumanizing them"

Yet, ironically, when they cram themselves 15 to the Buick they are not. Or, if you prefer the image of the Chinese illegals, cramming 300 to the ocean-going crate is a not-dehumanizing portrait.

"which makes it easier for you to so curtly announced they should be "shipped back" instead of realizing that they are people"

Charlie Manson is a "people" too; darn that Vince Bugliosi for "curtly" prosecuting him for *>gasp<* breaking the law.

The United States asks that people born elsewhere who want to live here fill out paperwork -- which is a fairly simple request. They asked the same thing a century ago as well, so bringing up "but we're all immigrants" doesn't cut it. If you don't fill out the paperwork you can't stay. If you can't stay, you need to be shipped back. It doesn't get simpler than that.

Whining and mewling because the people who do not comply with the law are "people" doesn't obviate the reality that they didn't comply with the law. Now, when Charlie Manson doesn't comply with murder laws, he goes to prison. When illegals don't comply with immigration laws, they get escorted to the border. Following the law in the first place prevents these from happening.

"People who were desparate enough to uproot themselves and take a sometimes very dangerous route to get here and try to build a life for themselves."

Same thing when my German great grandparents escaped from Tsarist Russia with little more than the clothes on their back. One difference: my ancestors filled out the paperwork.

"You call them uncivilized and rude, and I say you don't have to be born somewhere else to be those two things."

I personally find that those who are the most uncivilized are those who advocate that laws do not apply because they have sympathy for the law-breaker.

But that's me; your mileage may vary.

[Jair Stone]

Chew on this........

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American
and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else,
for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American,
and nothing but an American...
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

-Theodore Roosevelt 1907