It's guys like you who've practically ruined the construction trades for American men, who once flocked to that industry because it paid well, and was a highly skilled profession.
Your "hard working guys" have pushed the wages down so drastically in the construction field, that no law abiding American man can earn an honest living at it any more. Americans don't get all of the government freebies that make it possible for your "hard working guys" to work for peanuts.
I take it personally, because these invaders have taken the food off my children's dinner table for years, and have made it damn near impossible for me and my wife to build our business to the levels it should be.
A pox on them, and everyone who supports them!
To add to your accurate statements, let me say that it's GREEDY employers of legal and/or illegal immigrant labor that are pressuring GOP legislators with big donations and other lobbying efforts of the nth magnitude to get them to pass a total amnesty bill in the not distant future.
This is why Judas Boehner and his RINO cohourts are getting all ready to sell their country down the river for a few pesos of silver when Obama's big move for amnesty is plopped into the halls of congress.
And it's not only Mexican male laborers that are disrupting our employment market, but third-world men and women workers flooding the general service, retail, office, manufacturing etc. industries.....tens of thousands of them pouring into our already-shrunken labor market...and working on the cheap.
I can't believe the freeper employer who posted upthread is actually CROWING about his hiring practices on a conservative forum. I'd be ashamed to even mention it publicly.
Buy American....Employ Americans! Push Back!
Leni
.........LOL, Windflier, I’m not sure what “a pox on them” (and by extention I suppose “me”) means but it does not sound like it should be part of an intelligent FR discussion about an important issue. This seems to be a departure from your normally well thought out posts.
Windflier, I am not and never have been a Union employer. Clearly, that is the direction you are coming from and the argument you want to have. Well, not tonight.
But, on non union construction jobs around Texas, there are not enough “general laborers” available. That is a fact. Many jobs just SIT due to this labor shortage. So, setting aside the Union vs Non Union argument for a moment, and I know that is not what you want to do, Texas is in a boom condition generally and construction in particular and we need more skilled and unskilled labor. That is a fact. But, we don’t need or want AMNESTY! Or, a path to citizenship, or coyotes or the crime that comes with all of the above to say nothing of the terrorists slithering across the border.
Finally, Texas is a right to work state and that is something that clearly irks all you union guys. But, there is absolutely nothing a lowly developer like myself can do about undoing Right to Work in Texas. Sorry.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, I appreciate your comment and respect your viewpoint.