I gotcher "jobs Amerians won't do" right here, Scooter

Via Foseti (your go-to guy on how Regulators tick), Simon Grey swings the cluebat of enlightenment shattering the canard about jobs our unemployed seem to have no appetite for:

It looks like that canard is just plain wrong:

Unemployment rates have fallen in Alabama amid new legal pressure on companies to comply with a popular immigration reform law.

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As I’ve written before, illegal labor and minimum wage don’t go together because illegal labor prices legal labor out of the market.  This is very simple economics.  If you increase supply of something without increasing demand, prices will drop.  And, if there is some sort of price floor in that market (think minimum wage), then that which has a price floor will be priced out at the margin.  Therefore, when you decrease supply of something while demand remains stagnant, price will rise and marginal purchases will occur again.  Incidentally, that’s precisely what happened in Alabama, and that’s what should happen in every state.

If there are any governors who might be squeamish about the idea of booting illegals back to the third-world, dirt-ridden country from which they came, let me offer you three benefits, beyond the simple reduction in unemployment rates, for your consideration.

Click through to RTWT, but it is entirely devastating, although quite unemotional and reasoned.  Theory meets data, and data once again kicks theory's butt.

But this is statistics, and Stalin was right when he said that one death was a tragedy but a million deaths was a statistic.  We need to bring the tragedy to the discussion, so we don't forget the lives being crushed by the open borders policy of both Dinosaur political parties.  Art connects on a more emotional level, telling us about the man, as opposed to the collective.



If you click through to Youtube, you'll see comments like this:

Got outsourced again. Moved 700 miles to drive a harvester for my father in law 18 hours a day at half of what I used to make but I got to feed my family and would work more if there were hours enough to do it. Nearly shed a tear when I hear this song because it sounded so much like me when I asked for the work and feel lucky I got it.

You'd think that this canard would collapse under the weight of thousands of unemployed showing up to apply for a dozen openings.  The data is clear.

I guess some people would rather have their beautiful theory.  You know, there was once a time when the Democratic Party gave a damn about the working class.  That was when I used to be a Democrat.

And while you're over at his place, check out the proposed States Sovereignty Amendment.  Yeah, baby.