South Carolina Ping
Posted on 06/14/2005 5:39:26 PM PDT by Founding Father
A lot of government officials, and media folks, attempt to convince us that illegal immigration isn’t such a bad thing, because illegal immigrants are “doing jobs that Americans won’t do.” Sorry, but Americans will do just about anything, if the money is right.
It’s not that there are “jobs that Americans won’t do,” it’s the simple fact that Americans don’t want to be paid chicken feed for the work that they do. Since some businesses don’t want to pay what workers feel the job should pay, the jobs go unfilled. These businesses instead hire illegal aliens and attempt to justify it by saying that Americans don’t want to do the jobs.
Ask any doctor in the USA if he would work for minimum wage and he’ll laugh at you, because he has gone through years of training and he feels his work is worth more than that. It’s the same mentality with any worker, whether or not their feelings (and pay grade) are justified.
Through welfare (redistribution of wealth), our government has created a dependent society: “Why should I go out and get a low-paying job when I can sit on my butt and draw a government check for almost as much?”
When it comes to unskilled workers, many people have gotten used to government (tax-payer) handouts. People with this type of mentality expect something for nothing. They want a nice paycheck, but they don’t want to have to put in a lot of effort.
Liberals whine about raising the minimum wage—because they say that the average person isn’t making enough to live on—while, at the same time, they support immigrants who come into this country illegally. These trespassing, illegal immigrants undermine the negotiating power of American workers, so how can the liberals claim to be on the side of the American worker? On the other side of the coin, let’s not forget about the business managers—whether liberal or conservative—who hire these illegals.
On top of all that, illegals raise the cost of health care, education and other services—and those costs are passed along to taxpayers, in the form of higher taxes, fees, fines, licenses, permits, etc.—so how can liberals claim to be a friend to those who don’t have much, when they are contributing to rising taxes and an increased cost of living?
Some illegals use stolen social security numbers so that they can get work—and that creates a lot of problems for the legal holders of those numbers.
I know of many people who have been audited by the tax authorities, because, on paper, it looks as though those folks made more in income than what they reported on their tax returns—and the burden of proof, along with the costs involved (lost time from work, attorney fees, research fees, copying, mailing, phone calls, etc.), is on the legitimate holder of the social security number.
In addition, illegal immigration poses a national security risk. Providing for the “common defence” is a Constitutional function of government.
The only problem with our current national security scheme is that the only people being scrutinized, monitored, tracked and inconvenienced are US citizens—and that's completely unacceptable.
Where are the liberals, with their “that’s not fair” whining?
Thank you for posting. Absolutely RIGHT ON.
And diseases they carry... TB, hep, etc. with their concomitant social and fiscal wrath
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I don't think there are jobs Americans won't do if you take welfare away from a lot of them. I don't object to helping people but that's what the difference is frequently - why would they work for minimum wage (or less as I'm sure some of these migrants don't even get that) if they can make more off welfare? That's human nature.
Besides that, we don't see the real cost of migrant labor as people have noted. THere are all the hidden costs of their health care, housing, education, social services, imprisonment, whatever - that the taxpayer picks up. That's no bargain to me.
He'll also laugh at you because medical schools can judge how many applicants to accept. The medical field has professional control, and not market control, over its own certification process.
As a business owner I can say this, some jobs are not worth more than minumum wage. I have a small ice distributorship in addition to my gas station. No way is sacking ice worth more than minimum wage. Maybe a little more, but not $7 or $8 an hour.
Some jobs are not meant to raise a family on.
And many of the ones that do just that, sit on their butt and collect, actually believe they work for the government. I've experienced it first hand.....
When each of my sons turned 14 they began working in the summers outside in 95+ degree temperature mowing, weeding, painting, etc. starting at minimum wage and usually getting about a 25 cent raise a year. It taught them hard work and the value of an education.
Excellent post!
Thanks for the ping. If we weren't such a welfare society, even since Clinton signed the welfare reform bill, then there wouldn't be these supposed "jobs Americans won't do".
Of course they're work for less. Where they come from they make little or nothing. They enter a country illegally, and are offered jobs that are well below our standards, yet many times above what they were used to. Who wouldn't expect them to work hard?
Ask yourself, how hard would they work for a Mexican pay scale or 3 bucks a day?
And just after typing my message to you about the country's over-reliance on welfare programs, there is this tidbit from the Heritage Foundation which feels the same way. LOL
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