you're right, i won't pick strawberries for $4/hour...it's the businesses that love it, keeps P&A down
Thanks for posting this...
you're right, i won't pick strawberries for $4/hour...it's the businesses that love it, keeps P&A down
So, is this the sacrificial MinuteMan candidate running in the district that thinks more like Barbra Streisand?
"Jobs Americans won't do"
Was one of the most insulting phrases anyone could say about taxpaying voters.
How must it have sounded to the rest of the world hearing who said it.
It wasn't a lib or Fox of mexico, no, .. worse.
So why waste tax dollars on public schools... 75% of the illegals don't have a high school diploma and the employers don't seem to mind!
3% of Illegal Aliens Do Low-Paid Stoop Agricultural Labor; the Remaining 97% Take Jobs That Americans Want and Need
The most recent Pew Hispanic Center 's study indicates that 97% of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens are working in construction, hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant, administrative and service jobs. Are these jobs that Americans will not do?
Dear Applicant:
Thank you for your letter of application. Unfortunately, you did not meet our requirements for Federal, State, Local and FICA taxes, as well as Medicare, Social Security and Workmen's Comp, meaning to say - we don't want to pay any of that. We'd rather you stay in your current job and indirectly pay for all of these things for our illegals.
Muchas Gracias y Lo Siento,
El Gordo
Of course 50% of those born in Mexico take welfare or EITC compared to about 15% of all other Americans in the US.
Here's an interesting statistical source.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1405.html
Sure they will do them. That's not the problem. The problem is that there aren't enough of them to fill the openings.
Just look at the birth rate statistics for the last 50 years or so. In the 50's the birth rate per 1000 was in the range of 106 to 123 births per 1000 population per year. What is it now? Well in the year 2000 it was just under 66 births per 1000 population.
So what you have is a large, relatively affluent population that is aging and they don't want to work at MacDonalds. But they want their MacDonalds Drive Up Window. As those workers retire we will not be able to replace them all with born in the USA Americans. Too low a birth rate. Too high an abortion rate.
So if you want to keep the economy growing, tax receipts growing, then you are going to have to accept the fact that we will have to have immigration. You can give those things up but there will be economic consequences.
The bottom line is that the argument that illegals are stealing the jobs that Americans want is only partially true. The do work cheaper in general but I think that is changing due to supply and demand. Remember - unemployment is below 5% and that is pretty much a full employment economy. And the 5% unemployed are not looking for jobs at MacDonalds or mowing your lawn. And at least for the last few years they weren't looking for jobs in the construction industry which was booming and hiring like crazy.
If 97% are doing jobs Americans won't do, does that mean less than 3% aren't working?
Interestingly enough, even Hillary kind of "gets it" where Mexico's nearly
omnipotent oligarchs are concerned:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/411104p-347791c.html
"[Mrs. Clinton] said she favors a "carrot-and-stick" approach with Mexico to
provide that government and its "oligarchs" the incentives to give Mexicans
more and better jobs in their own country."
Frankly, the more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more
reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back
monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with
economic refugees. Here's an interesting thread on new legal reform progress
that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well, by cracking down
and demanding more activism by our own United States Trade Representative
against protectionist Mexican oligarchs in, for example, the monopolistic
petroleum, telecommunications, electricity and television media sectors.
Isn't prodding our neighbor to finally clean up its own backyard before
lambasting us for ours the neighborly thing to do?
"The distinguished Senators Kennedy, McCain, Specter, Brownback, DeWine, Martinez , Hagel and Graham" would be utterly humiliated if they had to do any of those jobs. I'm thinking that since they've convinced a few of us poor souls that they deserve the $160, 000(+, +, +, ?) they don't have to do anything other than laugh all the way to the bank...