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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 PĂ©rez

Posted on 11/25/2016 11:33:34 AM PST by dirtboy

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To: dirtboy

Stack a workplace with a common group of foreigners and they will keep English only speaking American workers out. Job security.


61 posted on 11/25/2016 12:12:13 PM PST by glenduh (I)
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To: bigredkitty1

exactly, most do not even try to do quality work and some don’t appreciate the tools they are given to use, it all costs the employer more money which costs the customer more.

We are in for a serious transition period if Donald gets millions of non criminal illegals out and or H1Bs out too. Good but uncomfortable to go through for many people.

Young and older folks will have to take on house cleaning, yard work all sorts of jobs they are now having illegals come into their homes to do, let alone the jobs like construction, factory, meat processing, hotel workers and store workers etc. while back we had article on FR about Chobani started by a foreigner largely with help from Govt money sources and hired mostly foreigners , if i remember correct.


62 posted on 11/25/2016 12:12:25 PM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: dirtboy

And we lowered their taxes over the past thirty years. That is something I regret supporting.


63 posted on 11/25/2016 12:12:31 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: dirtboy

I’m not opposed to Green cards. Workers who follow the rules are ok with me.


64 posted on 11/25/2016 12:12:57 PM PST by jch10 (BHO, worst president ever!)
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To: dirtboy

Who is going to work in San Francisco for $8-$10 an hour when rent costs you $3000 a month?


65 posted on 11/25/2016 12:14:33 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: dirtboy

We need to find a different way, rather than inviting or tolerating 3rd world people to come here hand have an equal say in how to run the nation.


66 posted on 11/25/2016 12:16:07 PM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: dirtboy

WSJ pimping immigration again.


67 posted on 11/25/2016 12:19:40 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: dirtboy

Maybe he should try paying decent wages to US CITIZENS! Millions are out of work who are not college educated, even they have a hard time finding work and a job swinging a hammer is not all that difficult to do.

If I a woman can build a coffee table with no prior experience than watching my husband build stuff, then any one can learn to put on a roof.


68 posted on 11/25/2016 12:22:00 PM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: dirtboy

Wait, too few Mexicans? Then what happens to wages... Maybe that debt problem and growth problem and wage problem go away?


69 posted on 11/25/2016 12:23:31 PM PST by poinq
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To: elpadre
There are more than enough able bodied workers on the welfare roles to do the work - if they were willing. The question is: how to motivate them to do the work?

Kick them off the welfare rolls.

Or return to enforcing the (Bill) Clinton-era Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.

70 posted on 11/25/2016 12:26:47 PM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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To: dirtboy

THERE ARE PLENTY OF MEXICANS.
They just don’t want to work. They prefer to stay on public assistance.
They have anywhere from 5 to 7 kids, don’t get married and pull in drug money on the side.
We are not receiving the cream of the crop from Mexico. We are receiving morons who couldn’t make it in their own country due to low brain power and low motivation.


71 posted on 11/25/2016 12:29:55 PM PST by doc maverick (I)
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To: elpadre

If they were serious, they’d let them work without losing all their benefits. Say a sliding scale for minimum part time work.

Full employment—at least 40 hours per week—no welfare checks.

But as someone said up thread, if they can’t get enough American workers for the pay they’re offering, they’re not offering enough.


72 posted on 11/25/2016 12:33:36 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What is the missing link? Lack of a work ethic in ghetto culture? Inability to follow directions? Lack of soft skills such as knowing you need to show up for work on time? Illiteracy?

Pretty much all the above. There is no work ethic in the ghetto culture. They maintain this notion that they should be paid top dollar from the get-go on the first day on the job - none of this "work your way up" nonsense. And showing up for work on time? That's being "white". Finally, what's the need to follow directions from some uppity cracka shouting orders?

73 posted on 11/25/2016 12:35:19 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: doc maverick
We are receiving morons who couldn’t make it in their own country due to low brain power and low motivation.

Just as the White-European Mexican Elitists want it.

74 posted on 11/25/2016 12:36:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dirtboy
Maybe try paying more to get American workers?

At this point, most American men just assume that jobs like construction and landscaping are off limits to them. Years of being undercut by illegals.
75 posted on 11/25/2016 12:36:21 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: vette6387

There are plenty of snowflakes who will graduate with worthless degrees in need of jobs.


76 posted on 11/25/2016 12:38:12 PM PST by Rebelbase (Please consider donating to the emotional-support porcupine program for college safe spaces.)
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To: Engedi

“How about schools let Seniors get school credit for working half day or 1 day a week “

My high school gave credit for one hour a day if you had an after school job.

I loved getting out an hour early on those days I didn’t have to work.


77 posted on 11/25/2016 12:40:05 PM PST by Rebelbase (Please consider donating to the emotional-support porcupine program for college safe spaces.)
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To: dirtboy
Change the immigration laws to allow more eastern Europeans into this country (Poles, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Rumanians and others. Right now there is a large (illegal?) population of Russian Jews in NYC-legalize them at once.
Unlike most Mexicans and Central Americans, emigrants from eastern Europe would tend to be better educated, many highly educated.
Also, the Obama administration has made it virtually impossible for untold thousands of white South Africans wishing to emigrate here-even though some of them are in fear of their life.
78 posted on 11/25/2016 12:45:49 PM PST by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: SaveFerris

Just like slave owners. They want to live like kings, pay little to nothing, be able to push their workers around with no backlash, and they spout idiocy about how they want a trickle down effect for the average workers. I am certain that if they started a roofing business and hired people who live in the Appalachian mountains they would find a gold mine of dedicated, hardworking employees.


79 posted on 11/25/2016 12:51:23 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Exactly. The catch of being on welfare is that you’re not allowed to make too much money without running the risk of being cut off. If the job goes South, how on earth is someone supposed to survive? Not everyone on welfare is in fact a mooch who does not want to work.


80 posted on 11/25/2016 12:53:38 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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