Tired of paying high prices for professional services? Here's the solution

[ny_liberal]

Let's duplicate the success of low price of farm products.

Let's allow 10-15 million professionals into the country to drive down the price of their services.

- 2 million DOCTORS from the Phillipines and India
- 2 million ENGINEERS from Bangladesh and Pakistan
- 2 million LAWYERS from Nigeria, Ghana and Mozambique
- 2 million ACCOUNTANTS from Israel
- 2 million PROGRAMMERS from Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria
- 2 million CEOs and SVPs from China and Korea
- etc.

In 2 years we'd be paying $20/hr for professional services :)

[dsc]

1. If there are two million accountants in Israel

I would hate to see their tax laws. Israel has about 5 million people.

[Minnesota Libra]

2. That would be great and it would quickly...................

....cure the illegal alien issue too because they wouldn't put up with it for long. :bounce:

[lpbk2713]

3. I don't want a doctor who is hardcore ESL.

I want the lines of communication perfectly clear between the two of us.

[ny_liberal]

5. That's racist

Just kidding

[LiberalEsto]

4. The programmers are here -- from India

Indian IT professionals have been taking over American computer jobs for years. They come here on H1B visas. We know a lot of IT people who have been laid off. Often they have to take lower-paying jobs in other fields.

[acmejack]

7. Engineers too

[ny_liberal]

6. You think Republicans and their upper class supporters would support this?

Of course not.

Which is why we shouldn't support the Senate version of the immigration bill that reduces the wages of middle class & lower class workers.

[treestar]

8. Well, so what? Wouldn't that mean lower prices for something

you need?

Do you go out and pay the highest price you can for everything you need?

You're talking about protecting these people from competition. Nice of you.

At least when it comes to Mexicans farm pickers, they're trying to protect the poor Americans from competition.

The job market is just not that static and neither is any other part of the economy.

Companies grow or fold. New companies pop up to do things that never were done before. Haivng the right employees at the right time can make a company grow and flourish.

[ny_liberal]

9. You missed my point :)

[ny_liberal]

10. Kicked

[cap]

11. yes.... and you work the hours of those professionals at

$20/hr which is $40K/year. No overtime. Let them work 9-5 like most other professionals in this country.

Put your doc on a 9-5 shift and see what happens to your health.

Put an programmer on a 9-5 shift and see what happens to your paycheck when an 8 hour paycheck run blows up at 1 am on Thursday.

Put an attorney on a 9-5 shift and see what happens to your last minute motion during a divorce, especially the restaining order so that your spouse cant beat up on you.

Put an accountant on a 9-5 shift and see what happens to your taxes when you give him your returns on the last day.

CEOs and SVPs... well, I'll give you that for the CEO of a large corp. but a CEO of a small business???

Oh.... so you dont want these people working only 9-5...So you are really angling for an effective $10/hr wage rate.

Give me a break.

[ny_liberal]

12. I bet that DOCTORS from the Phillipines would work 12 hr days for 50K