| | and I wanna apologize. Grades. Cleaning out my classroom. Teaching is NOT the way neo-cons say it is, where we just sit around and drink vodka and hate kids.
In last week's episode, a consumer was complaining about the high price of gas, and Tinsley somehow segued into...an indictment of baseball fans paying to see steroid-dependent galoots.
Seriously.
Once again, Bruce has left out the humor for extra savings. Is he trying to say that if we're not going to regulate steroids in sports, we shouldn't regulate gas prices? But we voluntarily pay for tickets to sporting events; if the price is too high, we can opt out. Gas prices are a stickier topic:
if you have a car, you're kinda stuck.
baseball ticket prices are not connected to politics or anti-Semitism in the Middle East.
I could go on and on. I suggest you do so.
This week's funny, FUNNY strip is about illegal immigration.
Bruce (that's really him!)is a caveman who comes home to find a stranger in his cave. Tommy Chong pays the intruder:
As I always say: tough questions don't worry me, it's the simplified answers that freak me out.
Yes, Illegal Immigration is a problem. People come across the border and use our services. However, they also come to work. An undocumented worker can make five to ten times what he or she could make at home.
Quick Question (QQ):
If Bruce were offered 10 times his present salary (and remember, this is a man with two kids and a lust for books), would he switch?
As long as the work is here, people will come here. IF you made hiring undocumented workers expensive for the companies that hire them, or if you did away with the gap in earnings, the problem would go away. No fence. No walls. That's a mature solution.
Building a wall, however, will make it tougher for some undoc'd workers to get here. The majority of undoc'd workers, however, don't walk across the desert; they come on visas and stay or they come for a visit and stay or they drive across. A shortage of 'informal' undoc'd workers will hurt smaller companies, companies like Tyson Poultry already have recruiters and routes to get their illegal workforce (read 'Fast Food Nation' if you doubt me).
Problem: enforcing laws costs money. Designing and switching-out tamper-proof work documents costs money. This administration; not so good with the money. For themselves? They do just fine; Custer Battles, Halliburton, etc.
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