Posted on 06/18/2025 7:17:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Heraclitus once stated, “a man never steps into the same river twice,” which implies that both the river and the man are continuously changing. The United States, and we as its citizens, are also constantly changing, but change can be managed and directed towards improvement and away from chaos. Among the most important decisions facing us is that of illegal immigration and who is going to do our work.
Over the past decade, several political luminaries such as Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chuck Schumer, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have declared that we need illegal immigrants to do the work that Americans won’t do. In an obtuse way, they are correct. Americans will not do the work for wages that have been eroded and diminished by thirty years of unabated illegal immigration and 30 million illegal immigrants. They will not do the work that has been remuneratively devalued and culturally denigrated.
Continuing with our river analogy, this statement by Democrat politicians regarding what work Americans won’t do overlooks a more important change in cultural currents. For two generations, young Americans have been encouraged to pursue college degrees and white-collar jobs and to eschew career paths that require any form of muscle work. The river of our culture persuaded young people that their futures were in air-conditioned offices and comfortable cubicles, and to look with disdain on those who toiled in the elements or on factory floors. As the river rolled on, it changed who we are.
Parents, too, were influenced by the currents, encouraging their children to avoid hard work that required physical strength and grit. They wanted “better” for their children and spent tens of thousands on prep schools, universities, and graduate programs, and billions more were spent by the government through grants and loans.
Now, in the time of Trump,
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I won’t work Quality Control or Production for Bud Light.
Good article, thanks for posting it.
Maybe some work just doesn’t NEED to be done, if it cannot be done at a fair compensation. Allowing in what are virtually indentured servants is no substitute for a fair and just marketplace.
The wage for work X is valued inexorably by the demand for that work and the supply.
If the supply is multiplied by illegal immigration the value decreases.
The minimum wage sets the least an employer can pay a legal worker, so without going to jail every job under that must go to illegals.
In order for illegals to take those wages they must have further theft from legal Americans in the form of benefits.
These are the hills slaver Democrats and RINOs die on. Not one thing has changed in Democrat values since pre-CW.
They will do it if it pays well enough.
It just means the cost of some things has been kept artificially low (by soft slave labor)
The unseen hand will determine the rate of pay. Perhaps farm workers and hotel maids will get paid more than librarians and desk clerks. Idk.
They said this “Americans won’t do this job” over and over again only after they drove the wages through the floor with a flood of cheap illegal labor. Pay more and there will be no shortage of Americans willing to do that job. For example, meatpacking used to be considered a coveted job for blue collar workers. It paid good money. Construction? We built houses and buildings before the flood of cheap labor. Does anybody believe we could not do so again if the pay were decent?
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There are possible situations where help is needed & American men COULD do it. Problem is that the pay scale might need be so low that a retiree is the only one that might do it & would even gain from the extra money,but is physically unable. So there are those who Would be available, but are unable. Then,too it would have to be done so it didn’t cut in to their social security. What I’m saying is there is possibly an American citizen available for almost any job if physical ability isn’t a problem.
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Get rid of welfare, and those jobs will become real desirable.
Agreed. As the article states, part of the math of Americans not doing certain jobs is because illegal immigration keeps wages low. And as you correctly state, part of the math is Americans have a welfare option to not need work. Take away illegal immigrants and take away welfare, and Americans will go back to work.
Why would America, of all places, stifle innovation?
A successful career is obtained by a thousand sacrifices. One must evaluate those sacrifices honestly and with open eyes. If the plan is to send the kids to private school so they don’t get poisoned by the public school propaganda machine, the sacrifices may be worthwhile. But if the big career is to attract a hot wife or drive an expensive car, one should think long and hard about what that costs.
There was a time when children could do work that’s now mostly done by immigrants (legal or illegal), too. In the summer of 1962, when I was 7, my 8-year-old sister and I would walk about half a mile to meet the bus before dawn, then ride to the fields an hour away to pick berries for six hours or so, then return home by midafternoon. I don’t believe there are many places in the U.S. where this would be permitted today.
THANK YOU.
And fake disability claims.
I am spending each early AM with a shovel & a hula hoe, knocking out weeds on my 5.63 acres.
Took out 218 yesterday AM—137 this AM, because I spent time resetting a gate that was swinging too close to my hot wire fence.
Will be over 95 by 9 AM here
MY PAY?
I DO NOT END UP IN OCTOBER WITH 5 PILES OF TUMBLEWEEDS 30’X 10’x 6’, and having to dig a pit to burn them when burn season allows me to do that.
NO $$$$$$$ involved-—just weed abatement.
THIS SNOWFLAKE GENERATION IS TIRESOME.
THEY WANT EVERYTHING-—BUT DEMAND OUTRAGEOUS WAGES WHEN THE HAVE LIMITED SKILLS & EVEN MORE LIMITED AMBITION/INCENTIVE.
THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS ZERO
Ordering ING A BUSINESS TO PAY $15 or $20 an hour to a cell phone addicted hacky-sack player is outrageous
THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS ZERO
Ordering A BUSINESS TO PAY $15 or $20 an hour to a cell phone addicted hacky-sack player is outrageous
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