Where are you at and what are you paying per hr .
Our kids ain't having the number of kids like we had kids, and we didn't have the number of kids like out folks had.
No and we don't have all those factories and mills that made all our clothes,and household appliances, steel, shipyards etc.and all the thousands of cottage industries that went along with which employed millions of America workers.
You don't need kids if you can't make a decent wage to take care of them and there is not a decent future.
Also don't forget that our grandparents and my parents in my case needed larger families to work on their small farm.
Now one guy with a tractor can produce ten times what a family of ten with a mule could.
All of you who believe in the principles pf free market should tell the government to stay out of it because that what's wrong.
Let the market set the wages and the let the government quit passing laws that encourages and enables companies to invest in Red China and then floods what job market we have left over here with cheap labor.
They couldn't do a better job at attacking the wages of American workers if they tried [which is exactly what they are doing.
You don't really think they care about all those poor underprivileged foreign workers do you?
Hell, you are dealing with businessmen, the most greedy, cold bloodied, hard hearted, con men on the planet when it comes to a dollar.
They don't even care about the future of their fellow countrymen or their own grandchildren much less that of a bunch of foreigners.
They're just justifying selling out their own country and people to themselves but mostly to you and me and we gobble it up.
Stylin19a has hit on a important topic. If you were building a house now, like I am, you would realize that framers, masons, dry wallers, electricians, plumbers, roofers etc. are a premium, many local builders have sent all of their teams to the south for government/insurance funded rebuilding. I am paying $8 a square foot for rock, the job will take one day a will cost about $3600....they should be able to get to me in the next 6-8 weeks, yes there is a list. Yes, the two workers are Mexican, they're considered skilled and pull in $16 an hour, the English speaking owner, after materials, pockets the rest. I haven't seen a single white American youth do these jobs, they're all at mcdonalds making minimum wage.