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My wife some years ago lost a job at a mail order garden center to illegal immigrants, my son also lost his first job in landscaping to illegal immigrants, the pay was bad but he loved that job. Two weeks ago I was told to train my Mexican replacement, I'm in automotive engineering, yeah there's a job Americans don't want either I guess

Yeah I really beleive you. She lost her job to an illegal at a mail order center. Yeah right. And illegals aren't the ones taking or losing jobs it's the labor unions themselves.

OH BTW you do know 7,500 GM workers are getting paid to watch soap operas all day don't you.

AS General Motors tries to reduce its payroll by 30,000 jobs, the New York Times has pointed out that GM still pays as many as 7,500 workers to do nothing. This is part of a Jobs Bank experiment gone mad. In 1984, the United Auto Workers and management created the Jobs Bank as a way of keeping workers on the payroll while the company automated its production. "The argument went that if the auto companies had a pool of idled workers, they would be less likely to outsource labor overseas," wrote Jeremy Peters of the New York Times. What was supposed to be a billion-dollar program was supposed to end in 1990. A generation later, it continues. It costs GM about $9.4 million a week to pay the salaries of people in the Jobs Bank, and that does not include their health care and pension benefits. Now the bank threatens to undermine the buyouts of up to $140,000 each that GM is offering its workers. Peters visited Oklahoma City, where 2,300 employees remain on the payroll a month after GM shut down their plant. They receive full pay and benefits even though there is nothing for them to do except sit around and chat, play games, or watch TV. Garland Pruitt, 53, with 27 years of seniority, told Peters: "Why would I walk out the door with $2,000 less per month and have to go find a job when I can sit in the bank, get my 30 years and retire? It's really to my advantage to ride the bank out as long as it goes."

OH BTW, there are thousands of landscaping jobs out there. Why doesn't your son start his own business and be his own boss.

Yes she did, Springhill Nurseries in Tipp City Ohio, she worked in the greenhouses, the company brought in illegals.

Delphi, like GM, has job banks also, to offset the cost they are looking for cheaper engineering costs and sending much of it to Mexico and India. Engineering isn't protected by the unions. American car company's are wacky, extreme labor costs and priveleges at some levels and deep cuts to American jobs at other levels.

The point isn't that other jobs can't be found but these are jobs Americans wanted and lost contrary of the leftist mantra "Illegals are doing jobs Americans don't want".