Posted on 08/27/2018 4:24:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Right! He could always resort to using Americans to do the work... Oh, but then he would have to pay them a living wage.... never mind.
The grass was “unsightly” she said.
It was a nightmare, she said.
First World problems.
Because we’re no longer exploiting Third World workers quite so much.
I mow my own.
Good for my blood sugar.
Needs to buy some equipment manufactured in the US and cut her own yard. Or move to an apartment.
Bush’s fault... wait Trumps fault!
This sounds like what was going on in Germany in the ‘80s, causing them to import cheap Muslim labor. That didn’t turn out so well.
Democrats refuse to pass the new agriculture bill because it has a requirement that able bodied people work or get off the food stamp program. The Bible says, “If any would not work, neither should he eat.” These lazy loafers ought to be pushing a lawn mower or they should not be getting taxpayer-funded food.
I was in Greenwhich and Darien,Connecticut a couple of weeks ago and saw absolutely no evidence of overgrown hedges or unmowed lawns.
“he realized he would need to cancel $80,000 in landscaping contracts because he couldnt hire enough workers.”
I’m sorry, that just
doesn’t pass the smell test.
Reduce government disability and workers will magically appear.
No joke. Hire Americans and treat them like humans instead of slaves.
He could, he just wants to pay them cash and less than minimum wage, no withholding, etc. He doesn’t want to pay the paycheck company.
Pay what the market demands, idiot!
So this guy, Brian Friend, foregoes $80K of contracts because he didn’t want to up the wage a few dollars/hour so as to attract the needed labor?
Mow your own damned lawn.
Lots of folks on welfare ... I see opportunity here.
people on welfare make lousy workers, they are on welfare because they are lazy.
How about high school kids? never mind...
Hmmm...there is a Landscaping outfit in my area.
I see them all over the place doing jobs.
Not an illegal in the bunch.
We live in a solidly middle class neighborhood of around $180,000 +/- homes.
Very, very, very few owners do their own grass. A number of lawn care “companies” work the area. Most have somewhat scruffy looking workers.
The scruffy companies do good work and work cheap. They also offer a discount for cash. I wonder why - /s.
You mis the point
What Americans? There are no americans to do these jobs.
You assume a local labor pool that apparently does not exist.
“Ms. Dozzi, 64, watched this spring as the grass grew so high it became unsightly around her 10,000 square-foot brick home set on 3 acres”
WHAT!!??
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