Comments on The Underground Economy

Jeanne always does cool stuff. When you going to cover her emissions bill?

I'm into Chase's emission's bill, which I've been hyping for weeks.

I'll look up Kohl-Welles's now.

exploit = hire on mutually agreeable terms

Unfortunately, I'm also being exploited. Too bad I can't be all authentic and self-actualized like those unemployed blokes who sell the Socialist Worker.

the corporations are to blame, but mainly for the decimation of the mexican economy, overseen by us multinationals who pull the strings on us foreign policy. push/ pull. nafta's giant sucking sound goes both ways. it displaces and impoverishes far more mexicans than are employed via american factory job flight. the problem with domestic policy is not employers hiring mexicans who flee poverty. it's that employers will fight tooth and nail to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining the same labor rights american citizens are entitled to.

A lot of Mexican construction workers ride my bus. I like having them around and they like to watch me knit.

I do often wonder if they are legal or not, but the truth is, I don't really care. They work really hard jobs for shit money and it's hard for me to want them to leave.

I'm more angry that they are hired to do sometimes complicated and dangerous work without the resources we'd require for white, legal workers.