[A. Pole]

More "jobs Americans won't do".

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Visit any Tahoe area ski resort and you'll find young workers from all over the southern hemisphere. Nothing new here.

[cmsgop]

Doing the Ski Jobs Americans don't want too do.........

[BluH2o]

Most winters my wife and I ski in the intermountain region ... CO or UT ski areas, we alternate. Many of the young people working in these resorts are from Australia or New Zealand. Vail just completed construction on a large nice looking dormitory (just off I-70) to accommodate their seasonal workers ... which other ski areas will probably emulate. Reasonably priced housing near ski areas is tough to come by and discourages many youngsters from wanting to work in high end winter resorts.

[fight_truth_decay]

As per article: Sunday River Resort (owner of other ski resorts across the country) near Bethel, Maine, has sent recruiters to Australia, South Africa, and South America in recent years, and this season filled out its 1,200-person workforce with (to fill the quota but often layoffs appear everything dependent on the weather for all tourism seasons) 80 international workers

Unemployment in Maine is:January 24, 2006 - Maine Unemployment Rate 4.8% in December

Maine ranks No. 2 in the nation in tax burden and No. 37 in personal income.

The Census Bureau estimated that in July 2004 Maine’s population had increased by an annual average of about 9,845 residents since 2000 (to 5,558,058 residents). Over that period immigration was adding about 975 persons each year through net international migration (more immigrants arriving than leaving).

There are many so described "cottage industries" or "extra/self-employed jobs" in Maine where I am quite sure "cash" is passed hand to hand for services and not reported. Fire wood now reaching well over $200-$250 a cord often unreported and a very thriving business. Many services escape the revenue radar as Mainers survive by throwing "the bird" to the "State Taxaholics" in Augusta.

A Lincoln, Maine resident was quoted as saying, "Here in Maine you either work for the State or you're on the State."

[fight_truth_decay]

It also crossed my mind from reading the "entire" article you posted; that young foreign student workers are more "comfortable" coming to the United States and working than American young and adventuresome travelers/workers/students are in relation to the "security" of working overseas as Americans.

[who knows what evil?]

Two points...Planned Parenthood and their comrades murdered 50 million of the young people who might have otherwise filled these positions. Secondly; a lot of young people in New England have seen the long-term writing on the wall (higher taxes, astronomical heating and electric utility costs), and are heading south while the 'gettings good'.

[Dat Mon]

Thanks for the ping.

I suspect Americans dont realize that young people, many from Eastern Europe, have been coming over to America to do seasonal work for years.

I meet these kids every summer when I go to Dewey Beach, Delaware.

There are apparently, international job shops set up which recruit these kids in their native countries, and handle all the paperwork, guest visas, and transportation. I suspect they also pay the kids a salary, or send the money direct to family members back home.

Don't get me wrong, most of these kids I have met were nice kids, very personable, and appeared to be good workers.

But I have to wonder...where are the American kids working...the ones, who, (as I once did myself), use summer work as a means of financing their own education, or start their own businesses?

[Buffettfan]

There is no more "buy American" and there is no more concern for fellow Americans. The American middle class has been sold out in the name of profiteering. Every job now that is given to an unskilled foreigner is now falsely labeled "a job that an American will not do".

[GOP_1900AD]

In Tahoe, speaking Spanish is becoming a valuable skill. Simply to ask the lift operator a question! To be fair, some of these workers do the year round thing, moving between here and the Andes. Many US workers in the ski industry are not as mobile as some of the Chileans, Argentinians and Peruvians tend to be.