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Between songs, there are commercial interludes featuring a cloyingly vapid host (Kregg Dailey) announcing first a company called Nannies 4 Nothing (all immigrants willing to raise your child for you), and then Buddies for Breeders (people who will listen to your boring stories about your kids).
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It is also healthy if those "Nannies" save up money, and then go start a chain of ethnic restaurants (I know a Salvadoran Nanny who did just that), and now her kids can go to college and become computer programmers.
Benefits of Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I also consider it much healthier to have "Nannies" in the U.S. rather than "workers in the fields under the hot sun 12 hours a day making 10 cents an hour" or "sweat shop workers" in developing countries.
Benefits of Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nannies from Sri Lanka and the Philippines ran after them, while parents lounged at open-air cafés and smoked water pipes.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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PS: As I stroll the streets of my posh "hood", Watching Black Nannies -- now, primarily from The Islands -- pushing strollers of multiple white babes, although I am certain they are treated far better, it is important to state that old habits -- especially those economically-driven, sometimes change so slowly...
Jill Lynne: A Challenge to Dream! Plus Lite & Not-So-Lite Fare: Jill Lynne 2011
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A British staffing agency called Imperial Nannies cited a Russian client who wanted to poach a nanny from another family.
Russian Client Offers British Nanny An Annual Salary Of $200,000 2011
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And I wonder how many of the IM use cheap East European Nannies and employ third world domestic helps at less than the legal minimum wage?
Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Nannies toss coins at his feet; Dogs growl and nip.
Soir Bleu JP Reese 2011
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Nannies may seem like a luxury or an indulgence for the elite.
Wendy Sachs: Before Mothers' Day, Two Celebrity Tributes To Nannies Wendy Sachs 2011
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Nannies may seem like a luxury or an indulgence for the elite.
Wendy Sachs: Before Mothers' Day, Two Celebrity Tributes To Nannies Wendy Sachs 2011
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