Posted on 11/28/2005 2:00:08 PM PST by Shermy
(CNSNews.com) - A coalition of trade groups has launched a television ad campaign to address immigration and the notion that "foreign workers do jobs Americans won't do."
The Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) said their campaign is directed at President Bush and features blue-collar and service employees addressing the president because he can cut the number of foreign workers allowed to enter the country. Bush has praised foreign labor with taking jobs Americans won't do, but that's a fallacy, they said.
"This public education campaign is long overdue. Hardly anybody is standing up for American workers and blue-collar families any more," said CFAW spokesman Roy Beck.
"Yet, they are the ones disproportionately affected by these uninhibited flows of foreign labor. Americans' wages are being depressed, their jobs are being taken and they're helpless to do much about it," Beck added.
In the commercial's opening scene, an unemployed man is sitting on the back steps of a middle-class home, saying "President Bush says foreign workers do jobs Americans won't do. Mr. President, I'll do that job."
Then the words "12 million Americans can't find a full time job" are featured on the screen.
A hotel worker then tells Bush "if immigration increases, we'll have more foreign workers who will work for next to nothing. I need to make enough to feed my family." That is followed by a screen saying that foreign workers depress U.S. wages. The ad offers "educational facts throughout."
According to Beck, all the jobs that are usually filled in high numbers by foreigners were recently filled by Americans.
"The massive influx of foreign workers has collapsed one occupation after another so that they no longer provide middle-class wages and benefits," Beck said.
For example, he said the meat packing industry once paid "good middle class wages" but after discovering that there is "an endless supply" of foreigners to fill those jobs, the industry has "dramatically" cut wages and safety conditions.
"It's really a shame. Our misguided immigration policies are causing American workers to lose wages and eventually their jobs," Beck said. "The size of the flow of foreign workers into this country is unprecedented and undermining our entire middle-class society."
Actually should read:
Then the words "12 million high school dropout-Americans can't find a full time job" because they are untrained, uneducated, lazy, dead-beats, socialist democrat voters, seeking French cradle to grave benefits are featured on the screen.
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Bingo!
In guess that explains why our unemployment rate has soared to five percent.
Wait, five percent would be considered full employment and one of the lowest rates of the past thirty years.
I don't get it.
I don't know what Bush's mechanism will be to determine what jobs Americans won't do, but McCain proffered one. A computer database where employers can "check" if someone is available. A system rigged to protect employers.
Will it offer at what wage? Take into accounts supply and demand? If an illegal is on a street corner for $5.00 and a citizen in another city will take the job at $8.00 per hour, is that a job Americans won't do?
Bush's plan futhers the elite agendas. What ever costs can't be outsourced overseas will be cut by insourcing illegals at home.
"Wait, five percent would be considered full employment and one of the lowest rates of the past thirty years."
Is that using Greenspan's mythical "natual level of unemployment" matrix?
Actually, the unions have been part of the problem. They're more interested in signing the illegals up as members than they are in keeping them out of the country.
2. If labor needs are not being met, an employer can apply to the government for a work contract to sponsor a "guest worker."
As hard as it is to believe, there are places in this country (like South Florida) that lack a native-born unskilled labor class. Back at the turn of the last century, Flagler recruited Bahamanian laborers to build and work at his hotels. These days, its Haitians, Guatemalans, and Mexicans doing the Schlepp work in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade County.
If you are an unskilled laborer, however, don't whine to me about not being able to earn a "decent wage." Its not my fault that you chose not to learn a trade. Even if we did the right thing and deported all the illegals, such folks would still be making sh-t money.
They are jobs Americans will want once they stop getting everything they need from Old Uncle Sucker.
I am for a complete revamping of the immigration and border policies, but I know people who own small businesses who have little choice but to hire illegals whether they are brazilian or Irish because they can't get enough americans to work for $15 an hour to paint or cut lawns.
BTW: What is it with the glorification of the "Werkin' Man." My grandfathers and my uncle were/are blue collar guys, yet even two out of the three never believed in that populist BS. Why is the "Werkin' Man" so much better than the rest of us?
"If you are an unskilled laborer, however, don't whine to me about not being able to earn a "decent wage." Its not my fault that you chose not to learn a trade. Even if we did the right thing and deported all the illegals, such folks would still be making sh-t money."
Unskilled laborers are just as much Americans as I. Why should they be targeted, because of skill or income earning potential? Why the disparate treatment.
Anyway, talk to people who used to be carpenters in the South West.
Are you saying that all the wetbacks have HSDs?
You got it. Underclass Americans go on welfare as it pays just as much if not more than working. High school and college kids work retail as they believe it will teach them more skills and they won't have to break their back. I was willing to work for low wages while in high school and had no problem finding a job, despite the fact that my area was flooded with immigrants, legal and illegal.
"BTW: What is it with the glorification of the "Werkin' Man." My grandfathers and my uncle were/are blue collar guys, yet even two out of the three never believed in that populist BS. Why is the "Werkin' Man" so much better than the rest of us?"
Wy would you say better? They're being treated worse. Why should they be treated worse than us? Why are middle-class IT people targeted to supress their wages more than other middle-class occupations?
Cabinet makers and senior carpenters are doing just fine in Florida. As a matter of fact, they are the ones who are hiring the illegals to do the basics (ie hanging sheetrock). Lots of work for skilled trademan. Its the unskilled who are f-cked, just as they usually are.
The illegals have filled the ranks of the skilled crafts as well as unskilled. I have a friend who's son had a brick laying company in Texas. He simply couldn't compete with those companies who filled their rolls with illegals.
In Florida, neither the Mayans nor the Haitians have the skills to do more than basic work.
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