Re: Wages Vs Prices


"jim blair" <jeblair@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.

I can't seem to find where I wrote the stuff just above that you attibute
to me.

> 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?

Worse for Americans as a group. If we need more nurses then we
should pay them more so that more people will choose nursing as
a career. That is how the market is supposed to work. If these
other counties need nurses then they can use thier own people.
If not then their people should be learning different trades.

> 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.

Typical Blair pig***. Current care costs so much because of layers on
layers of PRIVATE insurance companies and PRIVATE hospitals
and PRIVATE physicians that belong to the AMA union, and drugs
that WE pay scandelous prices for while the rest of the world gets
a free ride. Republicans have never met a patent they didn't like or
a producer/worker that they did like.

> Want to bet on the outcome? ;-)

Snore.

>> >
>> > 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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