cezebrgr
10-19-2007, 11:23 PM
It seems to me that containing the human smuggling problem under a blanket Guest Worker Program could help the workers, industry, and social security. Many of the heavy industries jobs have been shipped to south east Asia, because of the cost of labor and the value of the dollar.
As America becomes more ecologically "tuned in" the loss of those industries that pumped huge volumes of particulate material into the atmosphere may be perceived by a fraction of population not directly affected by a job loss as a mixed blessing.
The industries that remain and continue to demand low cost labor could be allowed to legally use migrant guest labor if they paid full social security tax while they worked in the U.S., but once they filed for social security they were paid that fraction of the benefits that were equal to the per capita income of there country of origin.
That is if say a person from Costa Rica work in the U.S. for 6 continuous years and paid into the social security system $20,000 dollars they would receive 72 monthly checks of $55.55, and the Social Security Trust Fund would retain $16,000.
Capitalizing on the 6 million undocumented workers would generate 96 billion dollars for the SSTF.
As America becomes more ecologically "tuned in" the loss of those industries that pumped huge volumes of particulate material into the atmosphere may be perceived by a fraction of population not directly affected by a job loss as a mixed blessing.
The industries that remain and continue to demand low cost labor could be allowed to legally use migrant guest labor if they paid full social security tax while they worked in the U.S., but once they filed for social security they were paid that fraction of the benefits that were equal to the per capita income of there country of origin.
That is if say a person from Costa Rica work in the U.S. for 6 continuous years and paid into the social security system $20,000 dollars they would receive 72 monthly checks of $55.55, and the Social Security Trust Fund would retain $16,000.
Capitalizing on the 6 million undocumented workers would generate 96 billion dollars for the SSTF.