Posted on 05/08/2019 6:16:25 AM PDT by NobleFree
> And that’s not going to change for the foreseeable future.
Famous last words ;-)
National Review published something that actually makes sense! Miracles really do happen!
No. Wrong answer. We need to work at raising the participation rate, which has languished.
Thanks for the years of support, NR. /sar
I think the immigration plan is stupid but I read the NR article as a yet another Trump hit piece from NR
NR is as Trump deranged as the Rats are.
Anyone who isn’t working today is either unwilling to work, or is unemployable. We have reached the point where stable employment is completely optional for our permanent underclass.
Isn’t he the person who Ann Coulter always retweets? I don’t go on her Twitter account anymore.
What do you do with unemployables who get in our way? The cashier at the Dollar Store was working her butt off while a guy outside was asking for spare change. Something doesn’t compute here.
1. Funny how this wasn’t an issue under Obama even as many Millions of Americans were unemployed or underemployed - yet that cheap foreign labor kept coming in.
2. Funny how NeverTrump National Review now suddenly cares about this issue......so long as it provides them an avenue to attack Trump.
Letting in fruit pickers is one thing. Letting in cheap labor for solid paying blue collar jobs like construction or for white collar jobs is quite another. The latter two categories should be filled with Americans first. Foreign labor should be made more expensive in these categories. That way companies will only use it if they actually need it.
The Republican party is 10% corporate/small business cheap labor free traders and 90% regular wage earners. The tail ( the top 10% ) in waging the dog ( the bottom 90%).
Rising wages will do that. DID YOU RED THE ARTICLE?
I know a lot of people think that, and I get why.
My view is a little different. I worked in a field where they actively recruited outside the country... I liked most of my foreign coworkers, and they were quite good, but the fact is that it kept wages flat for many years when they ought to have risen. Wages have to find their natural level again.
That, and I saw (or I think I saw) during the Obama years that people were finding ways to live without working, and that did damage to the work ethic, and most of all it did damage to what young people expect from their lives. The loss of manufacturing did a lot of damage beyond just the loss of the jobs themselves.
I have seen news articles complaining that, because of the tightening of the border, and the tightening of H2B, wages are starting to rise in restaurants and for field workers. That’s a good thing. Democrats are always pushing the idea of raising the minimum wage; I always say, tighten the border and H2B and you won’t even need minimum wage laws.
Most of the change in labor is related to a demographic shit as the boomers retire. This is only going to get worse as the boomer echo is substantially smaller (Our kids will have fewer kids.)
Automation is going to be the answer. Tell your kids to be robot repairmen.
Screw ‘em.
Looking back, my “no” is ambiguous. I’m saying no to an increase of H2B, precisely because it will keep wages from rising. We need a tight job market to bring people back into the work world. That, and kids leaving school (or getting out of the service) will have a hotter job market in which to find their way.
Tighten the border, tighten H2B and you won’t need minimum wage laws. For the last ten years kids have come out of school with no hope of a decent job (college kids working at Starbucks and glad to get it...) because the borders are open and manufacturing has left. Trump is turning that around, and he needs to stay the course.
And the administration is doing its best to keep wages from rising by increasing H-1Bs, H-2Bs, and through its immigration policy proposals. DID YOU READ THE ARTICLE?
All work visa need to end today.
Trump's businesses are dependent on H-2Bs and many of his financial supporters are dependent on H-1Bs. What do you think the chances of that happening are?
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