Posted on 06/18/2012 7:29:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
I’ll bet a lot of those 800 laid off construction workers are vacationing back home in Mexico. Or they’re collecting welfare via an anchor baby. There hasn’t been a large non-union residential construction firm in SoCal hiring Americans in decades. Custom builders, small shops, remodel firms, they hire Americans.
The drywall trade in SoCal was a classic example. In the ‘70s it employed a lot of blacks. It was unionized and provided a decent living. But the builders broke that union by hiring illegals for about a third less. The illegals could afford the lower pay by living 20 to an apartment, saving their money to take back to Mexico. Payback came some years later when the illegals threatened to strike and drove drywall costs back up.
There is also the problem of bankruptcies, businesses just folding and not paying you for services performed.
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!!
You are delusional to think that mitt will make the changes necessary to save our economy... he will just prolong the agony of the fall of our economy. One has to look at his record in office as governor... for that is what he will do as president. I do not think you will have to worry about mitt winning after his embracing the kenyan’s unconstitutional power grab through Amnesty. mitt told fox news yesterday that he would not pledge to get rid of obama’s amnesty plan... and those millions of jobs will cost our economy more $$$$ and rob jobs from tax paying American citizens. That is twice now that mitt has shunned Conservative ideology and agreed with obama... and it will not be the last time either. mitt must be defeated at the convention by whatever means necessary. mitt may not be obama but he will drive the car to the same destination... he may take a longer and different road... but failure is the address we will arrive at.
LLS
And of course the Federal government has the power to make such a distinction pursuant to the equal protection clause.
Oh, wait....
And I'll bet nobody sued.
800 employees doesn’t qualify as a small business. That said, there’s a lot of businesses that will go down if the imposter is reelected. Probably mine included.
Depends on the size of the town where the business is located, but if you paid attention she is down to 200 employees
LLS
I have sympathy for ALL the business owners in this economy. I know first hand how government regs have destroyed small business. Right now we have 3 generations living in my house! My daughter lost her small business, and my father in law cant make it on his retirement and ss checks due to increased utilites, food, rents, medical, etc. This country is in such a sad state......God help us if obozo gets reelected. Oh and btw, none of us qualify for ANY of the free handouts the gov likes to give away.
Back during the 1982 old depression in South Texas I experienced the same thing. My employees never missed a payday but the electric company was turning my home power on and off and there were times that I was completely out of cash to buy anything for myself.
You have to go through it to even realize the hardships that a small business owner can experience with a downturn of the economy. Eventually I had exhausted all of my savings just to make payroll. Eventually, the bankruptcy filings from my customers forced me to lay off all workers and I had to bring the business back to prosperity by myself. Now, years later, I prosper but EXTREMELY cautious in hiring more new employees or buying new equipment due to the uncertain future to come.
The lessons learned in 1982 guide my daily personal and business life to this day and will into the future.
This was all for long time ago.
Now the next election is here. Hold on for a bit longer.
If Romney wins, then this will turn around. Bigtime.
You seem to hate businesses, banks and private industry in general. What is your preferred government run economic system? Monarchy? Dictator? Fascism?
I heard that woman call in.
The first thing I thought of was that any Liberals, and Obama himself (if he was listening) were besides themselves with glee. Their policies are working, and, given the chance, they’ll double down.
“mitt must be defeated at the convention by whatever means necessary.’
Our priority is to get Obama out of office, win congress, then work with Romney as best we can. Any other efforts are futile delusions.
LLS
COBRA for the two of us is $1300 a month.
Tapping the Retirement Funds while I type this. Thank goodness I followed the Golden Rule, save for a rainy day or an Obama Presidency.
I’m probably more in agreement with you after seeing this today...
http://images.politico.com/global/2012/06/120618_kissinger_flier.pdf
I just keep pulling out my copy of “IF” by Kipling.
Good luck to us all. We are getting older and more tired. Somedays I don’t know if I have enough energy to pull another rabbit out of the hat.
We really have no choice do we? We just have to keep going until we can’t anymore or we finally succeed.
yahoo my friend.
“You seem to hate businesses, banks and private industry in general.”
Hardly. You need to stick to commenting on posts that you are capable of understanding, which obviously doesn’t include what I write.
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