Re: Wages Vs Prices

The Trucker <mikcob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:<d281kp020fo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
> Jim Blair wrote:
,
> >
> > About a million immigrants come to the USA each year legally, and about as
> > many illegally. Almost all of them come here because they can get jobs.
> > Yet
> > far more people than that who are already here did not take those jobs.
> > If Americans had wanted those jobs, they would have taken them. This is
> > not
> > "magic", just an observation of reality.
.....
>
> > And is it "bigotry" for a US farmer to hire a Mexican to pick crops? Or
> > for
> > a US hospital to hire a nurse from India? Or would it be bigotry to
> > refuse to?

Trucker:
> >
> >>...After all, there
> >> are plenty of finely educated workers in low cost countries who could
> >> competently fill almost any domestic position.

jeb:
> >
> > It is not clear what your point is. Most educated foreign workers remain
> > in
> > their home country. But yes, US hospitals (for one exmple) do recruit
> > nurses from South Africa, India, Phillipeans, and other Englich speaking
> > countries. Because they cannot find enough US nurses to tend to their
> > patients. And many do come because the the US hospitals pay more than
> > the foreign hospitals.

Trucker:
>
> We have a nursing shortage because the wages paid to nurses are not as
> high as they should be. And H1B visas have made the situation much
> worse.

Hi,

Worse for who? Those in a hospital? Those who need a nurse? The
nurse who moved here from India?

Trucker:
>
> >>...Everyone who works competes
> >> against low cost labour.

jeb:
> >
> > In some sense, everyone competes with everyone else.
> >
> > But would you stop hospitals from importing foreign nurses? And have more
> > patients die from lack of care?
>
> No. Most of us would pay the nurses more so as to attract competent
> Americans into the field.

Lets take a survey of how many in a hospital would choose to pay more
to have a US born nurse. Or of how many think medical care in the US
does not now cost enough.

Want to bet on the outcome? ;-)
> >
> > PS I will be offline for several months starting next week.

This is a test post to see if I have found a way to post from Israel.

> >
> >
> >
> > ,,,,,,,
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> > (_)
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