Mike McConnell Show 14 February 2004

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Show notes for 14 February 2004

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• Gay marriage becoming linch pin of presidential election
• Letters from listeners:
  • ...No one should vote for a president if they dont come out against gay marriage... - Mary Kay Brown. Mike says, 'What if you agree with the president on 90% of the issues, so why wouldn't you vote for them?' Very few people are conservative on moral, social and fiscal issues.
• John Kerry is stupid if he had a relation with an intern after the Bill Clinton debacle.
• We have X number of dollars to have the police go after problems that hurt people, so lets not focus on problems that hurt no one like pot, gay marriage, etc., that involve people in their own homes not hurting anyone else.
• Mike swings to the conservative side on most issues, but morally he is more liberal.
• We employ 2 to 3 times as many people as the jobs we lose abroad. Public Citizens Global Trade Watch, say the US has lost about 3 million jobs due to NAFTA and other trade agreements. A 2002 critique on NAFTA, written by a Mexican, Canadian, and American, said 7 million Americans work for foreign companies on US soil. So the globalization is better for us than not. The jobs we tend to send off shore are low paying jobs, and jobs we bring in are high paying jobs. Two to three times the people in US benefit from globalization as loose from it.
  • Offshoring to India - 1 in 10 high tech jobs are expected to go to India. Is that gloom and doom? It's not a case of "all the jobs going to India", computer work still has a strong future here in America.

Caller talking about jobs moving overseas, and immigrants taking American jobs

• Often moving jobs to Mexico doesn't make much more money because infrastructure is missing, startup costs, and higher utility costs.
• There are many jobs that Americans dont want to do.
• Caller says you can't get a framing crew to work for $15 a hour, because there are immigrant framing crews that work for less than that. They drop off a bunch of workers, and later pick them up, and pay them a substandard wage. Mike thinks that is because there aren't enough Americans to do the job. The caller says that the immigrants are driving the wages down, because they are here illegally, and will work in substandard conditions.
• Mike says a friend who owned a car wash, he couldn't find teenagers who would work the job. The kids wiping down the cars, would get $10 an hour after tips. But another car wash that is all mexicans, and they are taking the jobs that Americans didn't want to do.
• Caller says that Bush's program makes everyone here already legal retroactively, and this is a problem, worse than just jailing all the employers who hire illegals.

Mike wants everyone in this country to be here legal. He is not lax on that part of immigration. Mike says you can't round up all the current illegals, and the barn door has been open too long, and even in employers would hire them, then they'd just convert to a life of crime, so Bush's plan to legalize the current illegal immigrants is better than that.

Mike says that many construction employers have trouble finding people who will actually get to work, do the work, and have a car to go to work in.

Caller says that kids need to learn to work more. Parents who say children wont work a menial job are destroying the work ethic of their kids.

Caller "Scott" calling about gay marriage issue being a back burner issue. The caller is in the entertainment business, he has no problem with gays, but the gay issue is a long term problem, and the caller sees it is as a major problem because it is unweaving the fabric of our civilization. To the caller it is a very immediate issue and a danger. The caller thinks it is wrong and against nature, and children shouldn't be brought up to believe that gay marriage is fine.

Caller "Steve" from Columbus Ohio: Is amazed by Mike's definition of labor market. Caller says Mike thinks it is ridiculous to call an employee offering too little money for Americans, a labor shortage, and it is rigging the market to let immigrants come in and fill the job. Normally the employer should be forced to raise the wage to attract more people, instead of just bringing people from across the border. The caller says the market should set the pay rate. Mike says that McDonalds are advertising signing bonuses just to get employees. Caller says that legalizing the illegal immigrants is the government coming in and rigging the market. Why should the government artificially increase the supply of people? Mike says so there is plenty of working Americans. Caller says that higher wages would get enough workers.

Mike says that teenagers in this one scenario, the teenagers get money to do nothing, so why would the teenager go to work for McDonalds when they can instead get money for doing nothing. Caller says that business wants indentured servants who it can pay really low wages under threat of deportation. Mike says that if the car wash needed to pay $20 an hour to get teenagers, then the car wash would cost $25, and people would stay home and wash their own cars, and there would be no car wash. The caller thought it would be ok for the business to go out if people aren't willing to pay enough to support the service and product.

Caller "Mike" in Columbus: Calling about the Catholic priests and abuse scandal. Forgiveness used to be part of our lexicon and maybe we should have compassion for those priests. Caller is surprised no one ever says anything like that.

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