[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your CODB for personal monetary gains

[stan]

everyone ( and congress people )   please listen to Brad and even Bill on 
this one - stan/gbi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your CODB for personal monetary gains


> Warren,
>
> The issue for us is not cheap labor, it is labor period.  They are there 
> and
> willing to work.  You don't see locals lined up at Home Depot at five am
> looking for a job.  We pay the prevailing labor wage, now $15 per hour,
> because they demand it.  My brother, who is the real brains of the 
> company,
> is used to working in a union environment.  In Illinois, unskilled labor
> gets $30 per hour plus benefits.  No problem, you just build the cost into
> the job and pass it on to the customer.  No doubt there are some abusing
> employers out there, but any one with half a brain for business treats 
> their
> employees well, legal or not.  We operate on the Louis Haslett principle 
> (my
> father), don't ask a man to do something you wouldn't do yourself.  We 
> just
> hired another full time local and are always on the lookout for more who
> show on time, sober, and are not looking for a workmans comp injury.  You
> wouldn't believe how difficult finding a good empoyee can be.
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/28/06, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>>
>> Your point is well taken, Warren.
>>
>> The country votes with its credit cards, and it is taking its credit
>> cards to Wal-Mart despite the fact that Wal-Mart is killing all the
>> American businesses by hiring illegals, importing everything, and
>> teaching its employees how to free load their medical bills off the
>> taxpayer supported system.
>>
>> Everyone likes to talk a good game, but when it comes to their own
>> money, other people's jobs are just another cost of doing business.
>>
>> Bill Effros
>>
>> Foy, Warren wrote:
>> > CODB "cost of doing business"
>> >
>> > Note Subject line change:
>> > Was "Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)"
>> >
>> > Brad wrote:
>> >
>> > "It pisses me off every time I go to an ATM or call a phone tree and it
>> > asks
>> > whether I want English or Spanish."
>> >
>> > Amen Brad.
>> >
>> > However, your dream implies that you are willing to support such a
>> > necessity whether they are illegal or not.  In your "dream", how did 
>> > you
>> > pay your immigrant labor?  Cash, Check, minimal cash with promises of
>> > additional work?  If by check, do you expect them to use a bank or do
>> > you also own a check cashing service so that you can get your 20% back?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:13 PM
>> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political
>> > humor)
>> >
>> > Bill,
>> >
>> > It pisses me off every time I go to an ATM or call a phone tree and it
>> > asks
>> > whether I want English or Spanish.  That being said, most cabbies in
>> > Beijing
>> > are torqued over having to learn english for the 2008 Olympics.  Here 
>> > is
>> > an
>> > interesting perspective on native language.  BTW, I've ordered the
>> > Spanish
>> > for Contractors CD for the boys on the beach.
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
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