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 Trumps signature issues on trade and immigration which won him the election. Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which includes Carls Jr. and Hardees.
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 wont do:
Andrew Puzder, head of the California-based Hardees 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.
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I'd like to turn it around. There are wage rates that Corporatists are unwilling to pay.
Ive never signed the front of a paycheck, but somehow - maybe I absorbed it from uncles who ran a marginal family business, tho we only visited for a couple of weeks a year - I never looked at employers as problems but as benefactors.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.It is a marvel to me that that quote - The very first words of Common Sense, the enormously popular published argument that drove the American Revolution - is not famous. I learned it on FR - and even then, somehow I didnt recognize its true import.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Writers [who] have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them is a precise description of socialists. Which, come to think of it, is probably the reason why I wasnt taught it in H.S; I had a teacher make a statement to me, in class, to which the above would have been the perfect riposte.
“This insanity does not help us”
People who have some concerns are insane? Perhaps we don’t all share your lofty vision.
The. Wry fact that you twist what I said into calling you insane proves my point. I did not say that at all
Whoa there; I’ve done much worse than working in fast food. What exactly are you taking issue with in my posts?
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