Small Businesses Lament There Are Too Few Mexicans in U.S., Not Too Many

Wall Street Journal via MSN.com ^ | 11/25/2016 | Miriam Jordan, Santiago Pérez

[sergeantdave]

“Nelson Braddy founded King of Texas Roofing Company in 1982. The company has grown from five employees and one truck to an organization with approximately one hundred employees...”

http://www.kingoftexas.com/corporate.php

[ridesthemiles]

Sure small businesses want more illegal aliens.””

I am a life long bookkeeper. I just turned 77. I still do books for 2 clients.

I have been doing bookkeeping for small businesses since 1980.

I NEVER had a client who hired or wished to hire an illegal.

They followed the law & hired people who could legally work hre in the USA. I am pretty sure none of them even hired someone on a VISA.

I call BS.

Pay American kids a higher wage so they will work? Then the rest of us cannot afford even McDonalds, and then they will get laid off.....

There is a price point to everything.

I bill $20 an hour, with no minimums for my bookkeeping skills. I am a ‘full charge’ bookkeeper—I can prepare payroll tax returns—sales tax returns—and financials. I can make the year end entries the CPA wants & close the books. Maybe I could get more if I worked in a CPA office, but I have clients I have had for over 45 years.

To the best of my knowledge, I have never had a client get audited for work I did for them.

IF a kid wants to be paid more money than fast food offers—then stay in school & LEARN something. Put down the $700 cell phone their parents bought them & the Playstation. Get a trade skill under your belt. I have had very few times when I didn’t have more clients asking for me than I could handle.

[evilC]

When workers are finding it tough to find work they will be told:
Reduce your expected pay
Take work that is not your first choice
Improve your skills
You do not have the right to a job. You do not have the right to a certain level of pay

My advice to employers finding it hard to get workers:
Raise offered pay
Take workers who may not have the exact experience you seek
Offer training for workers to bring them to the skills needed
You do not have the right to a constant stream of available labor. You do not have the right to low wages.

Employers: Do you get how the free-market (you always celebrate when it suits you) works now?

PS:
For every "Doing the jobs Americans won't do"
Remember to add "...at the crummy wages we want to pay"

[garryowenartillery]

Here in Southern Indiana, the business owners are white Euro-Spanish heritage and the labor force Spanish speaking South and Central American Indians and a few Mexicans.

They just finished my roof last week. I’ve known the owner for years. He’s a “white” Mexican guy who booked over 750k this year. No way for roofers and restaurateurs to compete with the new slavery.

[CorporateStepsister]

If your average teenager started out working in fast food, then progressed to learning a trade, they would be more than able to end up paying their way through even an expensive school. I am sick and tired of spoiled teens focusing on getting a degree so they feel entitled to start at the top.

[CorporateStepsister]

Thing is, not everyone will be able to get off of it if the restrictions about making ‘too much’ is held against someone who wants to better themselves, but does not want to run the risk of losing the safety net and if the job does not work out, ending up on the streets.

[BunnySlippers]

One improvement would be allowing non-union workers to bid. Right now, unions keep illegals in business.

So i have to put up with surly unpleasant illegals who don’t speak english.

[SaraJohnson]

Construction - involving all the trades - is not low skilled labor. They are trained to do the work they do and hired because they work cheap and are illegal and weak to stand up for themselves.