Sunday, February 1, 2009

For the love of Chicken Wings Part II

So I've already established that the immigrants in Postville weren't doing any harm to America, but were they helping the economy. In deed they were.
Because the company was paying the numerous workers below minimum wage, at about five or six dollars and hour, they were able to sell their goods for a lot cheaper than they were selling them before. Since they were keeping the prices low, the company was selling a lot more and they were raking in more money. The consumer was also benefiting, they were able to buy the wings for a lot cheaper so they were saving money and able to have there money for other things, like house payments and stuff like that.
Another things is, how many people would actually want to work in a meat packing plant? Not me! I definitely would not want to work in a factory for the rest of my life or even part of my life, no matter how short. They are gruesome and I don't really like meat that much to begin with, I would probably quit after one day of working there and then become a vegetarian afterwards. I'm pretty sure quite a few people would agree with me on this, after do you really want to work for minimum wage or just a little above for the rest of your life, we as Americans have aspirations. I know I'm going to college and I know that a lot of my friends are, I just don't really see myself getting a degree in meat packing lol. And I know that I could never see myself, a white upper, middle class citizen working in a grimy factory.
So why don't we just let the immigrants do the work that we really don't want to do, for us. I know I would probably get yelled at by some anti-immigration people for saying that, but who cares. They complain about not having enough jobs for people, when the truth is, there are enough jobs out there but nobody wants to work in a meat packing plant, we all are just to lazy and grossed out to do actual work. Or as other people would put it, most Americans are above that and have to high of an education to be working in such a tedious low skilled job market.
So why don't we just let immigrants do our work for us?

For the past decade, the Superbowl has been the TOP sales day for chicken wings in the United States, nearly four percent of all chicken wings sold throughout the year are sold on Superbowl Sunday. Now that's a lot of wings. There's just one problem with this year, since the raid, the Postville plant hasn't been producing nearly as much as they had been, thus we are now declaring today to be a shortage of chicken wings. This means that the prices shot up over the past few weeks and it's really expensive to buy wings now, if you can even find them today. The humorous thing is that many of the people that will be complaining about the lack of chicken wings today are people who complained about illegal immigrants coming into the country and "stealing our jobs." Many of the people are responsible for the Postville raid, an therefore it is not anyones fault except for theres. They just had to go and screw up a system that was working perfectly fine, and now we are all gonna have to suffer with out our chicken wings, except for my family. I told my dad about my theory on the chicken wing shortage about two weeks ago and he went and bought some. As it plays out, they are actually five dollars more expensive today then when he bought them two weeks ago, so I told him he owes me five bucks. And now I am five bucks richer.

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