Posted on 12/09/2016 3:50:44 AM PST by DoodleDawg
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name as his Labor Secretary fast food executive Andy Puzder, who stands diametrically opposed to Trump’s signature issues on trade and immigration — which won him the election. Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which includes Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s.
Advocates for American wage-earners say that Puzder as Secretary of Labor is alarming because he will be in charge of enacting policies that directly impact American workers, whom Puzder believes are “unwilling” to do certain jobs. Puzder has suggested that available U.S. jobs should instead be filled by imported foreign labor.
Puzder has even gone so far as to suggest that he prefers foreign laborers to native-born American workers because foreign nationals are more grateful and have a better “attitude.”
“The fact is that there are jobs in this country that U.S. citizens, for whatever reason, are reluctant or unwilling to perform,” he said in a 2013 Politico op-ed in which he advocated for expansionist immigration policies.
As the Washington Post reported, Puzder suggested that flipping burgers is one such job Americans simply won’t do:
“Andrew Puzder, head of the California-based Hardee’s fast-food chain, said his business is a good fit for immigrants because they are willing to start at the bottom and work up…
“Immigrants appreciate what America offers,” Puzder said during a recent visit to Washington to lobby for immigration reform. “They are not taking jobs from Americans, because there are not sufficient Americans applying for jobs. Maybe they feel they have better options.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hamburglar Czar.
“And since when don’t we appreciate LEGAL immigrants?”
I don’t really appreciate 1.2 million LEGAL third worlders a year coming here for the welfare benefits. They don’t share my culture or admire it but I’m supposed to respect theirs.
We should cut immigration down to 250000 a year, you must share our culture, no benefits and no bringing your entire extended family (we don’t need your entire village here because some bleeding heart thinks it’s wonderful or is married to one of your tribe).
Any of President Elect Trump’s choices for cabinet posts are of a much higher caliper people than Obama chose. A Labor Secretary with labor experience. Why does anyone have an issue with that or with what he said about immigrants working. And someone did mention that the Carl’’s Jr. CEO was not talking about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.Good point on that. A lot of you guys out there are gonna be wiped out mentally, by the time Trump is inaugurated!
Absolutely! I just heard the 16million carrier CEO Christmas present will include upgrades to automation that will replace some of those created or saved jobs. What a liar or an idiot trump is and I am surprised that pence was working on this taxpayer rip-off.
I swear between his winners and losers deal, stimulus and ivankas for the children, he sounds more like Obama than bush.
It’s a good article but it doesn’t explain at all how the appointment of Puzder is supposed to help solve the problem discussed (EEOC “disparate impact rulings”).
Read the entire Breibart article. This guy is a firm believer in vastly increased legal immigration, complete amnesty for illegals already here, and deportation under almost no circumstances.
Puzder would be a cancer in the Trump cabinet and should be excised right now.
So as Labor Secretary, what can he do about immigration? On the other hand, if he can get the Office of Workman Compensation to work like a Hardies, then that would be a good thing.
“They are not taking jobs from Americans, because there are not sufficient Americans applying for jobs. Maybe they feel they have better options.”
I kind of agree with him at this point, but it was NOT like this in the 70’s when I grew up. We all worked and did whatever jobs we could find, I delivered Newspapers at 10, I did all sorts of menial jobs growing up for spending money. My brother got his PHD in Physics at UCLA while being a cook a Bobs Big Boy. American Kids were not ashamed to work back then, now they are spoiled rotten little snowflakes that think everything should be handed to them.
>> And since when don’t we appreciate LEGAL immigrants? <<
Tell me Kemo Sabe, just who is this “we” of whom you speak?
I tend to agree with Pudzur. Hire the best worker you can.
>> Have you spent much time on Breitbart? <<
Obviously not. But that may be to Nifster’s credit. I stopped reading them long ago, because so much of their stuff is “click bait” pure and simple. Too often, the stories fail to deliver what’s promised in the inflammatory headlines.
>> I tend to agree with Pudzur. Hire the best worker you can <<
Uh, I don’t think that’s the party line at Breitbart.
Are you signing up to work in fast food?
Let’s give Trump the chance to fix it before we start screaming
And the labor secretary doesn’t handle immigration policy
We don’t need globalist open border idiots in this high position. He’ll turn on Trump.
Trump has the two word solution for problem employees; You're Fired. Besides, when a sack full of illegals removed from this country and welfare is no longer a perk for not working, many of those jobs will be a lot more appealing.
“And the labor secretary doesn’t handle immigration policy”
True, but he has a seat at the table and an influential voice.
You didn’t read Sundance’s article because he laid everything out succinctly.
And you don’t know what his conversations with trump were
Criminey people are getting freaked out over zero.
This insanity does not help us
Bad choice. Donald is not perfect.
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