Good American blue collar and farm workers cannot compete because they want a lifestyle similar to all the rest of us. But with unlimited illegal aliens flooding the country - undercutting the wage base - then jobs for Americans disappear. I can tell that some posters just do not get it ... Illegal aliens live 3-4-5 families to a household - even with low wages they can live just fine this way. Especially when the women go to the welfare, food stamps, and health clinics and LIE on the applications saying that they are not married and that there is no wage earner in her household. Then they go apply under a false name and get some of the same benefits. So the next time some of you guys want to make excuses then remember you are approving a system that shuts out good Americans from earning a living wage. Do you want live 3-4-5 families to a household or you want that for your nephew or neice ? Ten years ago bricklayer wages and meat cutter packing plant wages dropped from around $18.00 an hour to $8.00. Is this what you want for America?
Great points.
I wonder how the proposal that congress is getting ready to introduce wil address these issues?
Do you think they are going to propose more handouts so the repubs can start buying the votes as the demorats do?
“Good American blue collar and farm workers cannot compete because they want a lifestyle similar to all the rest of us.”
Yeah, well, the flip side is this: I have relatives (Americans) in the skilled building trades who think they’re entitled to make a hundred grand a year. It’s ridiculous. Because the market rules, not what you think you “should” make, and there are immigrants (many of them legal) who will do it for less.
One roofing company sent out a blond guy to give us a bid on a new roof. Perfect English. Ex-high school football player, patriot, blah blah blah. The bid? $40,000 for a three-bedroom one-story house. We burst out laughing and he got sore.
We hired the bonded and licensed company with the Spanish-speaking crew and paid $12,000. Good job, good roof, 30 year warranty.
Which company would you have hired?