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Posted on 12/30/2025 6:16:26 AM PST by MtnClimber
In the eighties, I had a friend who worked for me on and off. He was a competent handyman and could do an oil change without screwing it up, something that was always useful in an auto shop, which I ran. Eventually, however, he got a better paying job as a drywaller.
Anyone who has ever done a home project with even a small drywall repair knows how difficult it is not to have even a small repair stick out like a sore thumb. Stevie was good and patient. He has that ability to measure with his eye. And so he was a very good drywaller, making a respectable wage with some benefits.
But about a decade later, he came back to my shop, needing work. He explained that his business had been taken over by mostly Hispanic workers, who worked as sub-contractors and were paid not by the hour, but by the number of sheets of drywall they hung. No benefits, of course. Their work may not have been great, but it was acceptable.
In all likelihood, many if not most of these new drywallers were illegal aliens. And in a one-decade cycle, drywalling became one of those jobs Americans just won’t do.
There is no such thing as a job Americans just won’t do. There are jobs Americans don’t want to or can’t get hired to do at the prevailing wage.
Some guys have the balance of a cat. They can walk on a 60-degree slope as easily as I walk on a treadmill. They tend to make good roof, chimney, and gutter masters if these are the fields they choose to enter. A fair number of guys would do this work when it pays a fair wage with benefits to cover the risk.
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Maybe the supply of illegals will disappear.
“Jobs Americans won’t do” — at the substandard wages that the illegals are being paid.
Yet when businesses are raided and the illegal employees carted away, there’s always a line of applicants for the job.
Hispanic teams under a Hispanic supervisor will do the work, all of it, no problemas for el jefe Gringo.
The Gringo contractor only has to obtain the contract.
One roofing contractor neighbor has three teams he obtains contracts for.
Another neighbor manages software development teams around the globe.
Taht's the truth of the matter right there.
Plus, some employers simply won't consider American workers for these jobs.
I say we should stiffen the penalties for employers who hire illegals. I want to see them perp walked.
Using Hispanic teams, the Gringo contractor can concentrate on getting contracts and not on some legacy American’s substance abuse problems.
The more teams a contractor has, the greater the contractor’s income.
Contractors want more money. They want more teams.
The problem is, are Americans willing to pay more for American labor?
“I say we should stiffen the penalties for employers who hire illegals. I want to see them perp walked.”
From my health care funding plan”
HOSPITAL EMTALA COST ASSISTANCE
I would allow hospitals collect up to $1,000 per incident of EMTALA service from patient related employers, with payment not in excess of $50 per week per employee concerned being due to any and all EMTALA providers and not for more than 100 weeks after service. Such payments on behalf of an employee would be considered to be a debt of the employee to the employer. Employers could collect back from employees and ex-employees (and require EMTALA incident employees to participate in an employer plan).
NOTE: Uniparty politicians generally despise non-essential legacy Americans, but will do anything for the hospitals, which are essential.
Using dry walling as the example, IMO it is a craft. There are those that slop it together and rely on texturing to hide their poor workmanship. And there are those so good that there are no mistakes and texturing would be a sin covering their good work.
Case in point: In the mid-90’s we bought a new custom built house in Canada and had it moved to our new lot in the US. The city building inspector spent several minutes inspecting the drywall. He looked at it from different angles and using a flashlight from different lighting perspectives. I was getting worried, so I asked him what’s wrong. He said NOTHING. He said he’d never seen drywall this perfect before. He could not find one single seem where the drywall sheets were joined. Corners were perfect and not one screw could be observed.
Get rid of the illegals and the craftsman will reemerge if paid a good wage. Fine the living hell out of employers hiring illegals and wages will soon go up for American workers.
Another story about illegals that really pissed me off. For a few years I did oil field construction running heavy equipment. I got a very good wage and was proud of my work, as were my co-workers. My leftist sister from Kalifornia came to visit and I bragged about my job. She dismissed my pride with one little remark: “We have Mexicans in California that do that stuff”. To me it was very degrading.
It’s trendy now to talk about the “affordability” crisis. That has become a loaded political term and a lot can be said about its misuse. But “affordability” is usually seen as part of inflation, government over-spending, national debt, and related factors.
But a big part of why things may not be “affordable” is because wages are artificially suppressed. People deserve better wages. And better wages are NOT the thing which drives up inflation. The “affordability” crisis ends when people get paid better.
“The problem is, are Americans willing to pay more for American labor?”
Legacy Americans have to get licensed and contract directly, getting the Gringo contractor’s significant markup themselves.
Two of my neighbor’s relatives are husband & wife flooring contractors.
April 9, 2007: Speech on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
"The second element of a comprehensive immigration reform is a temporary worker program. You cannot fully secure the border until we take pressure off the border. And that requires a temporary worker program. It seems to make sense to me that if you've got people coming here to do jobs Americans aren't doing, we need to figure out a way that they can do so in a legal basis for a temporary period of time. And that way our Border Patrol can chase the criminals and the drug runners, potential terrorists, and not have to try to chase people who are coming here to do work Americans are not doing."--George W. Bush
How did that work out, 'W'? Better than expected from the Uniparty POV I suspect.
We don’t need to stiffen the penalties — just enforce the existing ones.
That's $28.31/hr in November 2025 dollars.
Think anyone today in that area gets $28.21/hr for construction labor? Mass illegal immigration is why.
March 2019- My dad died and I had been laid off (CAD Design) for awhile and when I retuned home I decided to take advantage of an offer to mow fairways at one of the best resort-class public golf courses in the area. There was manual labor in the afternoon hours and the pay was only $11 per hour. I lost 45 pounds during that 6 1/2 months, and it was just what the doctor ordered. Mowing those fairways on an $80,000 Toro Reelmaster was the best “therapy” for me. I would do it again next year but for the manual labor that I can’t really do anymore. There was a contingent of Hispanics from Mexico on the crew and they were in the minority. We all did our share to keep the course as playable as it could be and the landscaping around the clubhouse was also beautiful. Some of the younger Mexican’s jobs were manual labor only and I could see that some of them wanted something better and a couple of them quit halfway through the season. I also had this sense of some of them wanting to bump me from mowing fairways so they could get off of their feet. Fortunately, the Superintendent had my back and I ended up having mowed more fairway acreage than anyone else that year. It was a small victory and I think my dad would’ve been proud.
You have to pay a wage that will attract enough people willing to do the work you want done. If you're not finding enough people willing to do that work then you need to pay more. You can stop your crying and whining right now. Its called the free market.
Flooding the country with cheap foreign labor is not the free market. That is rigging the game. That must not be allowed. If companies do not like hiring Americans and paying them American wages they are free to leave - and pay a big fat tariff if they want to access the American market. That's capitalism baby!.
Make it 50 years, and combine it with deportation of EVERY SINGLE ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINAL INVADER, and every one of their children, and their children‘s children, etc.
Enough is enough.
If the quality is superior to the work of the illegals. Yes. Same crap quality for a higher price? No.
“I say we should stiffen the penalties for employers who hire illegals. I want to see them perp walked. “
I suspect Trump is waiting until after the midterms to implement that move.
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