Posted on 09/09/2022 9:59:46 AM PDT by Chuckster
When Arsen Tatizian arrived in Petersburg earlier this year he did not think he would be staying in Alaska beyond the end of his contract with OBI-much less with his wife and his daughter at his side.
The Ukrainian first stepped foot in Little Norway on February 6.
It was his second year working for OBI, though he spent his first summer at their plants near Wood River and Larsen Bay.
He was only here for two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine.
While he continued with work, his mind was on the safety of his wife Snizhana and their two-year-old daughter Kateryna, or Kate in English.
(Excerpt) Read more at petersburgpilot.com ...
Note: This is a small town of less than 3000 souls on an island in Southeast Alaska
Do you live in Petersburg?
Finally some decent refugees. Now can we let white South Africans in who are also under attack?
Probably safe there unless Biden decides to give Alaska back to Russia.
I agree! We used to have a South African family at our old church and they were wonderful people and great Christians!
Welcome to Amerika! Septic Tank to the world!!!
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Note that there are 5 million White Ukrainians on the move in Europe right now.
We could take all of them. They would fit in quickly: educated, Christian, civilized. Most have some exposure to English, like the rest of Europe, and would not demand to have everything done in their native language.
Instead the ComScum continues to bar them while letting in the illiterate trash of the Third World.
At least they are white and from a sort of western culture.
I have heard from a doctor I know that because of policies in the past decade related to medical education, we are going to have a shortage of doctors in coming years. Probably a lot of other labor shortages since we still have below 4% unemployment. I know our southern border is a big concern, but I also know in an area with a sizable black population, you can only find hispanic construction workers in any quantity. Years of targeting college as the goal of high school has left the trades seriously undersupported in our public education system.
It was Mexicans who pushed Americans out of construction, not the selling of college to American males.
I watched this process as it took first the car washes and restaurants, and ditch digging, then lower level construction like installing molding, then sheetrock, and eventually roofing and on up, also machine shops.
When the first Mexican is hired he turns the boss onto more Mexicans, and they, in turn, create a hostile workplace to Americans and lock out new American hires, until the day comes when the media starts reporting whatever that field is, as “jobs Americans won’t do”.
shipping in some murk voters?
“When the first Mexican is hired he turns the boss onto more Mexicans, and they, in turn, create a hostile workplace to Americans and lock out new American hires, until the day comes when the media starts reporting whatever that field is, as “jobs Americans won’t do” “
THAT is exactly what happened, and is STILL happening, in the un-invaded areas, which are getting fewer and fewer.
Twinkie Americans aren’t hip to the hardball tactics of ethnic hustlers on the job site. it’s always “my cousin Manny needs a yob” and the foreman goes along with it because he wants labor peace. Manny don’t get hired, all of a sudden accidents start happening, complaints get filed, the Whiteys get elbowed.
Fools who think this is about a “labor shortage” are just that. I saw this back in the ‘70s in the oil patch, had to endure idiot illegals making threats and hurling insults along with the ever present hyena laughter that is part of their act.
PS, we have had a “shortage of doctors” for going on 4 decades.
That’s by design. In the ‘70s, the AMA did a bunch of “studies” showing that the medical schools were going to be putting out a surplus of docs if school growth was allowed to continue. And then Horrors! Medical salaries would go DOWN. Oh Noes, can’t let that happen.
So it turned out they were totally WRONG, and by the late ‘80s it was obvious that there were something like 25% fewer docs then needed. This wasn’t for lack of qualified med school applicants, all those schools admit that they turn away way more qualified applicants then they admit.
So they started letting in Third World docs from Pakistan and other charming places. So far, both my parents were victims of these half wits since either the HMOs or hospitals are overrun with them (they be cheap).
And the Caribbean med schools now place pretty much everyone they can graduate. Have a friend who graduated from one of them and has been a really successful doc for 12 years now. Made millions. He was older when he went there and the US med schools don’t admit older people. Didn’t matter. He was smart and makes a fabulous doc.
The AMA is a union determined to increase the paychecks of their members, that’s all. They couldn’t give a crap about medical care in the US. Not their problem.
The doctah shortage can be easily ameliorated by simply expanding and admitting more students, there are hundreds of thousands of capable students in the US who could do the work.
As a Texan who knows California and the Southwest well and had seen decades of media telling us Americans will no longer do landscaping, dishwashing, busboy, and all of the other jobs that the media said whites won’t do in the 1970s and 1980s, it was interesting to me when I moved to all-white towns and areas in the upper midwest and noticed all the jobs getting done without a Mexican in sight, restaurants had busboys, landscapers had workers, dishes were getting washed, snow shoveled, everything was completely as it had always been.
Yes. Ten years this month.
That's enough right there.
We got enough silly foreign names.
Take Sneezy-Anna back where ever you got her and don't come back.
Regarding my sentence: “Years of targeting college as the goal of high school has left the trades seriously undersupported in our public education system.”
One of the problems of targeting college for everyone was the complete neglect of any kinds of trade education for those who might want to pursue it. When I was in a large high school in th 1950s there were 4 tracks for students to choose. One was Liberal Arts College, another Science Oriented College, also Secretarial/Clerical Studies, and fourth was Industrial Oriented Work. In addition we had daily physical education in both high schools I attended. I was also able to take cooking, sewing, and home nursing classes. All of which has been useful over the years.
When my boys were in high school in the late 1980s, daily phys ed was no longer available, and trade schools in the area with significant black population were gradually eliminated except for one. One of my sons was dyslexic, and if I had not been taught building skills by my father, I would not have been renovating a house and having that son help me with building. He eventally dropped out of school in the 10th grade, but now at 50 has his own successful small construction company. The only reason my father had me helping with building even though I was a girl was that my brothers were 8 and 10 years younger, so I was what was available for work. Also, with daily phys ed, I had the strength to do physical labor. Something which is sadly lacking among many of our youth today, as the military recruiters will sadly tell you. The latinos that come to this country have had both physical and construction work experience at home, which is often lacking in this country. When my dyslexic son was living in Miami in the early 2000s, he wanted to take the electricians course in adult ed. There were only 2 people signed up for the English language electrical course, so he ended up taking the Spanish language electrical course. This improved his language skills enough that he was able to hire the available latino workers for his construction business. Why aren’t these things being taught in our larger high schools?
I had not heard of the threats and intimidation aspects of hiring non latinos. I live in the mid-Atlantic area. My son also has never reported such issues. I often travel to the Delmarva Peninsula which has parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia by the ocean. I am most familiar with the VA part. I have had difficulty getting work done on my cottage there because the businesses are having a hard time getting workers. Especially with the Covid payments, a lot of young people have not rushed back to physical labor. THere are relatively few latinos there and mostly they and black workers are in the agricultural sector or the chicken processing plants.
You really live in a sheltered bubble and share the views of Americans and Mexicans that the left does, it isn’t even close to reality.
The views I expressed have nothing to do with leftist thought. THey are based on in person observation in the areas I am familiar with. I’m sure that there are other areas where what you describe is also true. Reality is different in different places. Have there been the kinds of education changes in the areas you know like the ones I have seen over the years in the areas I know? What is the status of trades education in the public schools you know, do the schools you know still have daily phys ed classes?
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