[Carry_Okie]

What he did not mention is the structural disadvantage American workers suffer in the costs they bring to an employer: Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, Unemployment insurance, and the attendant costs of the paperwork. Then there are the minimum wage laws.

When all your competitors have to do for a job is to jump in the back of a pickup at The Home Depot, the costs of government make it nigh on impossible to develop a work history.

[DIRTYSECRET]

And those paying into SSI and working 40 hour/wk steady jobs?

Gotta acknowledge even deported felons will sneak back in. Nothing there in the old country.

[spintreebob]

Great comments.

Consider Indian IT workers (who don’t jump on a pickup truck at Home Depot). The Indian consulting firm absorbs all the fringe benefit costs. The American employer avoids all the alphabet soup Federal agencies by hiring the consultant. The Indian consultants have come to dominate the design of things such as employment application forms. The questions are irrelevant and the correct answer unknown to American job applicants. But the American’s job application is discarded if the questions relevant to Indians are left blank or lack the proper answer.