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America's labor shortage is actually an immigrant shortage
CBS NEWS ^ | APRIL 8, 2022 / 9:48 AM | IRINA IVANOVA

Posted on 04/08/2022 7:55:39 AM PDT by deport

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To: ConservativeInPA

My younger brother and his wife both worked for the federal government. They are both retired. His wife retired at 49. He retired at 54. They both started working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons straight out of college.
Federal pensions plus their 401K.
They will never have to work again.


41 posted on 04/08/2022 8:49:25 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If immigration is so necessary to survival of a country, what of some countries, such as Japan, which generally do not allow immigration? How are they surviving, if we are saying that immigration is so vitally important?
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This needs repeating! The corporate greedies put this cry for need of more immigrants out all the time. It is bull.

They need to pay more and assure employees of fair policies.
Maybe we could get back to time where a man could work as a shoe sales clerk for years while raising and educating a family.

To get back to better times, we need to trust bust down the mega corps, get rid of the current type of capitalism that generates such corporate monsters and support a reasonably regulated Free Market economy where everyone might have a chance to participate in the American Dream.


42 posted on 04/08/2022 8:50:10 AM PDT by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If immigration is so necessary to survival of a country, what of some countries, such as Japan, which generally do not allow immigration? How are they surviving, if we are saying that immigration is so vitally important?
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This needs repeating! The corporate greedies put this cry for need of more immigrants out all the time. It is bull.

They need to pay more and assure employees of fair policies.
Maybe we could get back to time where a man could work as a shoe sales clerk for years while raising and educating a family.

To get back to better times, we need to trust bust down the mega corps, get rid of the current type of capitalism that generates such corporate monsters and support a reasonably regulated Free Market economy where everyone might have a chance to participate in the American Dream.


43 posted on 04/08/2022 8:50:20 AM PDT by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: gundog

Hmmmmmmmmm

Interesting


44 posted on 04/08/2022 8:59:34 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: deport

Of course that is what the invasion is all about. Cheap labor and citizen replacement


45 posted on 04/08/2022 9:05:15 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: deport

i.e they need slaves.


46 posted on 04/08/2022 9:17:57 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: deport

Why would anyone immigrate legally when coming illegally gets you a check, free transportation to the city of your choice and a new Apple phone?

You’d have to be an idiot.


47 posted on 04/08/2022 9:20:45 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: deport
We have 41 million people on Food Stamps, the vast majority of which are able bodied but do not want to work because they live perfectly fine on government benefits.

Why should we import more workers when we have plenty of natives who are perfectly capable of working but aren't?

48 posted on 04/08/2022 9:22:00 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: GaryCrow

The only consolation to me is when this unsustainable system collapses, Americans lose all of their wealth and are hard pressed to even feed themselves, is what will happen to the bureaucrats who inflicted it upon us.


49 posted on 04/08/2022 9:26:53 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: deport

File this report alongside:
A) inflation is good for us.
B) high oil prices are good for the environment.
C) Everything that hurts democrats is a Russian plot.
D) Orange man bad.
E) No one appreciates all the good Biden has done.


50 posted on 04/08/2022 9:28:31 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Allegra

I loathe the lying, destructive left.
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How about the lying destructive Republicans that support open borders/amnesty?

Micro Rubio and John Hoeven, Amnesty Senators are up in 2022.


51 posted on 04/08/2022 9:31:23 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: deport

Allow the market to correct itself and jobs will be filled.

With tens of millions of illegals here, we have no such shortage.


52 posted on 04/08/2022 9:32:23 AM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: deport

The vast number of illegal alien woman come here to pop out an anchor baby so they can go on welfare for life. /spit.


53 posted on 04/08/2022 9:33:24 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: deport

We used to have a perfectly functional and logical way for the Mexicans who work the fields to come up during harvest and then go back to their families. This worked well for all. We do need people to work the fields, but most of those folks just want to do honest work for better pay than they’d get in Mexico, and then go back to wife and kids. But we stopped doing that; now it costs them to come here, so they stay, where they and their families and us do not wish them to be fulltime. Sad and stupid.


54 posted on 04/08/2022 9:33:42 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That is the same argument made back in the 1990’s.

“Immigrants are just doing the jobs Americans won’t do.”


55 posted on 04/08/2022 9:39:32 AM PDT by EBH (Hold My Beer. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

I say total BS when something like 23 million American are on welfare.
Reminds me of the Roman Empire when they brought in all the foreigners to do the work. Foreigners took over Rome.


56 posted on 04/08/2022 9:42:46 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: PGR88

They all claim they want to work.


57 posted on 04/08/2022 9:56:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: deport

Work force participation under Ronald Reagan, 66%
Work force participation now: 62.4%

That’s 4% of population between 19-65 not working, so like 10+ million people that should be working, and our not.

We don’t have a problem with available people, we have a problem with people who are willing to work.


58 posted on 04/08/2022 10:10:35 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: PGR88

I say Draft em all to serve as Cannon fodder for the coming wars with Russia-China-Iran. Those that survive given citizenship and medals (assuming we win the wars, naturally).
Only the officers need to be citizens. Whole regiments of Mexicans, Central Americans, maybe units of Haitians or Cubans. We can send them into the lines to “go over the top” to face Chinese drones and robot tanks in human wave attacks! The no man’s land between the trenches of Ukraine and Taiwan can be filled with the bones of these non-citizens.


59 posted on 04/08/2022 10:52:08 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yup. I’ve been saying we need at least a year moratorium on all immigration and go back to pre-1965 levels of 300,000 a year.


60 posted on 04/08/2022 10:52:14 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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