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"Okay, I take that as you will be applying for a vegetable picker or janitorial job tomorrow."

Between the ages of 14 and 22, I pulled tobacco, harvested Christmas trees, flipped burgers, was a bellhop at a resort and did construction work, among the various jobs I held before college graduation, and I was glad to have all of those jobs. I even cleaned my own toilet. People haven't changed that much since the 80s. What has changed is that there are overwhelming numbers of people, noncitizens, who will do that work while being paid off the books, who have no means of taxpayer identification, and there are employers who are willing to prostitute themselves and break the law right along with them to save a few bucks. And, these noncitizens are getting medical treatment at no charge. There are very few US citizens willing or even able to potentially go up against the IRS and state tax collectors, for a severly depressed wage, with no benefits whatsoever.

And you're cheering this corruption on, because there is some short term profit in doing so. There's short term profit in cutting corners in whatever you do, but it will eventually come back to haunt you. The same is true with this illegal immigration problem.

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What has changed is that there are overwhelming numbers of people, noncitizens, who will do that work while being paid off the books, who have no means of taxpayer identification, and there are employers who are willing to prostitute themselves and break the law right along with them to save a few bucks. And, these noncitizens are getting medical treatment at no charge. There are very few US citizens willing or even able to potentially go up against the IRS and state tax collectors, for a severly depressed wage, with no benefits whatsoever.

Really then why do jobs at resorts go begging every summer and those resorts have to recruit from foreign countries to fill the jobs.

Paramount’s Kings Island amusement park in Cincinnati, struggling to cope with a tri-state labor shortage, hired up to 300 European college students to staff its peak summer months. Another 200 workers were imported from other US cities. To accommodate its new recruits, the amusement park leased a University of Cincinnati dormitory and signed a $150,000 contract with Metro to provide expanded bus service to the park. Park officials say, “We’re going to have to be more creative in finding workers.” Importing foreign workers may seem novel in Cincinnati but it is a common practice in the amusement park industry. “I’m aware of a half-dozen or so facilities across the United States that have brought in foreign employees and put them up in a dorm room or hotel rooms,” said Joel Cliff, a spokesman for the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions. The biggest problem facing the amusement industry in the next decade is the shrinking labor force among high school and college-age students. Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky OH has on-site dormitories that can accommodate up to 3000 workers. Casino Pier and Water Park in Seaside Heights NJ has hired students from Ireland since the 1980s. And Paramount’s King’s Dominion, a sister park to Kings Island, housed 250 Europeans in dorms at Virginia Commonwealth University. Not only is this a problem in the United States, it’s a problem in England and France; they are hiring employees from other countries too.

agreed - posted similar comments yesterday (and previously)

this "jobs no American will do" mantra is pure BS.

eliminate all government subsidies and we will rapidly rediscover that all labor is noble, if it staves off the wolf.

(I need to add this paraphrase to my homepage, I'm using it so often) to paraphrase the good Doctor: "Believe it - the prospect of starving to death in a fortnight serves wonderfully to concentrate the work ethic!"