Posted on 02/21/2007 5:53:58 PM PST by NellieMae
I am getting really sick of the Mexican Invasion costing so many jobs in the Southwest Virginia- East Tennessee area. My husband is a brickmason. He is the 5th generation mason in his family- our son is the 6th. Up until just a couple of years ago brickmasons had contractors ringing their phones off of the wall wanting them to do work for them. My husband had to turn down dozens of callers because he couldn't do it all. Things have sure changed . Now, a lot of contractors in this area have gotten dollar signs in their eyes and all that they can see are cheap Mexican workers. My husband has actually had a contractor (real builders that know how to actually build a house are really scarce around here anymore) pull Mexicans on the job that he was working on because he was in such a hurry to get it finished that he couldn't wait the 2 weeks that it would have taken to do the whole job. They will pull in a huge crew and wipe the job out real quick. They waste a lot of brick though (they get paid by the 1000 brick). My husband is a very good, fast mason. His speed and quality is not the issue here. Most of these workers cannot even speak English. It is really aggravating to have lived in a place your entire life and have your livlihood seriously threatened by people that are not supposed to be here in the first place. How do we get rid of this problem? Also, on another related note: It was announced today that there are hundreds of jobs being cut in ANOTHER local factory, Bristol Compressors. I was told several months ago that a construction site in Mexico was marked with a sign that read:" Future site of Bristol Compressors" Is this a coincidence or is there another company by the name of Bristol Compressors?
"They are NOT YOUR JOBS!
You DON'T have the right to a job!
You have the right to offer your services at whatever price you choose. If your price is too high the organization offering the opportunity will choose someone else. You need to become competitive with the market or find something else to do."
You know, this has to be in the "Top Ten Dumbest Posts"
in FReeper folklore. If I bring in 50,000 chinese illegals who will work for 40 bucks a day, do Americans need to compete with their offer of 40 bucks? Illegal invaders have NO right to set the price for labor!!
Answer my question, do you like the idea of living in the third world? Do you really think it's "free market capitalism" when labor is here illegally, being employed off the books, weith those buisnesses tranfering the REAL costs of their cheap illegal labor to the rest of society? Why not cut to the chase and reinstitute slavery? Hey thats about as cheap as labor gets.
"They are NOT YOUR JOBS!
You DON'T have the right to a job!
You have the right to offer your services at whatever price you choose. If your price is too high the organization offering the opportunity will choose someone else. You need to become competitive with the market or find something else to do."
You know, this has to be in the "Top Ten Dumbest Posts"
in FReeper folklore. If I bring in 50,000 chinese illegals who will work for 40 bucks a day, do Americans need to compete with their offer of 40 bucks? Illegal invaders have NO right to set the price for labor!!
I've been fighting it for several years, and I dread having to do it, but it looks like I'll have to, or go out of business. I'd retire to avoid it, if I were old enough or in the financial position to do it very early, but I'm not; I've got a good quarter century left to go.
I said this but here it is again...
IT HAS HAPPEN TO ME!
I wrote software for 20 years! Now they do it in India for half what I made. Am I on freerepublic.com whining! NO!
I learned a new trade to be completive! NEXT!
Well stated.......Globalization is a sad, harsh reality, that cannot be ignored. The other alternative of being super protectionist, will harm our economy. It is simplistic to blame this solely on President Bush, the whole lot on both sides in Washington, the lobbyists and the business community and corporate boards must meet to solve this problem....../Answers are more intricate than simplistic-Seoul62..........
When I first started in printing in 1980, one could open a newspaper and find 3-4+ pages of high-paying jobs in keylining, shipping, bindery, press, pre-press, sales, marketing, etc.
Now you will be lucky to find more than 1 column for min-wage bindery slaves.
I personally witnessed the death of art departments and keylining. High-paying jobs.
I personally witnessed the death of camera, stripping, proofing, and plating. very high-paying jobs.
And now I am personally witnessing the death of press. The highest-paying jobs in printing.
Good thing I left my very lucrative analog position for digital in 1990.
Parenthetical note to the smug assholes posting herein: Schadenfreude is usually earned.
Only when those who hire the illegal invaders are seriously jailed in large numbers may we perhaps begin to reclaim our country.
Making money is fine, but being able to look in a mirror with self-respect is finer by far...
I was the only white guy, save the boss, on a crew of landscapers for 3 years, in my twenties. Illegal immigrants aren't really the problem, the problem is a desperately inefficient and unrealistic immigration or temporary worker program to process all these folks gaming the border. Again, in my early thirties, I found myself the only white guy among day laborers on the street corner (or temporary agency).
No, I wouldn't take that $7.00/hr work now, I don't have to. However, if I needed it...I'd stand my lonely white @ss out there again in a heartbeat, $$ under the table, to feed my family. Wouldn't be the first humble pie I've eaten.
The solution ain't enforcement, its common sense to deal with the labor demand. Illegal workers wouldn't be here in the first place if the work wasn't available. They're meeting needs, and as long as the need is present, they'll be there to meet it.
Guys... I keep hearing it's not fair...
LIFE IS NOT FAIR!
Compete or be left behind...
I don't care which... it's really up to you.
LOL -- bring in illegal Mexican politicians to work as Senators and Congressmen for pennies a day! I am reminded of Caligula, his horse, and the Roman Senate. ;-)
At $2000.00 per calendar, you should be ashamed.
Maybe you should print more than 10.
The illegal alien has no right to a job here. He has no right to even be here.
On the flip side, if your job skills can be replaced by an illegal alien who probably speaks little english, your job skills probably aren't too high tech. Might want to think about getting some advanced job training and move up.
The jobs that can be truly moved to low wage countries, like the textile industry, have already largely done so. Homebuilding and landscaping or other jobs that physically require a presence in the US are attractive to illegal aliens because they'll work for a lesser wage than Americans.
So they truly are taking jobs from Americans in those positions. But Americans who are conceding those jobs to illegals are finding better jobs that illegals can't fill. The unemployment rate proves it.
I really don't care if Mexicans mow my lawn, but I would like a program that assures me they're here legally and temporarily unless they've become legal permanent residents.
Actually they are not.
In most places it's illegal for them to be in the country but it's not illegal for them to work, rent an apartment, pay taxes etc.
Look at all the laws that have been shot down recently concerning this very subject.
You can either support or not support the WOD. But that doesn't mean that you have the sole conservative position on the issue. It's amazing how many people on FR have that "more conservative than thou" attitude.
¡Bostezo!
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