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Posted on 02/24/2016 10:30:48 AM PST by jacksonstate
I have had to explain to family and friends that have wondered why Trump is so popular here in Central Kentucky and here are the reasons.
1. Fruit of the Loom who was the major employer in this community has slowly been moving their production south of the border and finally closed all production in 2014 leaving this community devastated.
2.Migrants have taken so many low wage jobs that remained along with driving wages down. They live much cheaper than even us common folks often housing several in one home. Employers take advantage of the lower wage workers. American workers can't compete with migrants that wave in and live several to one home. The migrants do spend in this community but they send the biggest part of their pay back to families south of the border.
It is that simple.
Piling on: The wage decline/worker replacement is THE reason for middle class frustration. 15-20 years ago a framing carpenter in my area was getting $15+/hr.
At the time of the 2008 crash that wage had dropped to $10/hr and the vast majority of the work crews were Mexican.
Same thing for house painters, concrete finishers, roofers, drywallers, carpet/flooring guys, etc.
Even licensed industries like Electrical and Plumbing have been invaded.
In the beach towns along the NC/SC coast the vast majority of hotel maids are Latin.
Landscaping too, everywhere.
Kitchen help, busboys too.
Practically everything in large agriculture is now Latin.
Illegal, law breaking, cultural destroyers. I’ll shed no tear when they have to sell their property and go back to their home countries.
Stacking bricks. In Texas. In July.
But we were paid (at the time) a good wage for such work, although not as much as the (mainly white) truck packers at the un-airconditioned UPS facility.
Illegal immigration is all about the Benjamins, and transferring as much of the national income from labor to capital as possible.
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OK, but while Trump believes that corporate taxes are too high, he also believes that American workers’ wages are too high. How is this going to help your depressed area?
Do you know who used to pick the avocados, house the tobacco, do the landscaping, the custodial jobs, and the grunt work when I was young? It was the people who, nowadays are “disabled”, “minority”, developmentally challenged” and any number of diseases and maladies that used to be rare. In my day, they were just called “poor”. In my day, being poor didn’t always mean unhappy or deprived either. There was a saying “poor but proud” to describe those who worked hard for a living and to take care of their families with little left over.
If there was an ounce of patriotism or love of country in our youth; they would be joining forces and doing those jobs simply to deprive illegals of them and to send them packing home. That’s the kind of spirit that kept this nation going during the Great Depression. Hard labor and sacrifice was love of country.
But I wouldn’t expect but a few here that are as old as I am to even know what I’m talking about. The generations that have coddled their children with Liberal educations and the notion that they’re above physical labor will soon reap what they’ve sown.
But most of them aren't the problem. No one complains about the Poles overstaying their visas in Chicago.
And many of them stay a short while and return home (like many European immigrants did in the 19th century).
The three biggest immigration problems are: a) Mexicans flooding the low-wage jobs and lowering wages further; b) the H1B visa scam depressing wages at the top end; c) Chain migration.
We need a moratorium on ALL immigration until we can figure out what's best for the country and how to best control our borders.
Not saying he will help. Just saying why he is so popular.
And the illegal alien men, alone and away from their families, start looking at local 12-year-old girls.
My experiences mirror almost every post on this thread.
People under say, 30, have no idea how easy it was to get and keep a good job in this country.
There was no 18 months of job hunting.
There was no sending out 5000 resumes all over the country just to get 3 interviews.
Didn't like your job? Your boss was a jerk?
Quit your job, walk across the street and get another job the same day.
What has been done to our manufacturing and our economy has been catastrophic.
Again, none of those things are the problem (although you could make a case for H1B abuse) rather they are the symptoms. The problem is a lack of economic growth to absorb new and current workers.
How many did he enable to be created by understanding the effect of government tax and regulatory policy on job creation and economic growth?
I don’t believe the government was in the situation it is today, with it on the verge of going under fiscally.
We need a man who knows what creating jobs is like, knows how government directly inhibits businesses, and what can be done quickly to relieve these situations.
We need a man that has been operating in top level financial situations, saving money, getting things done effectively, managing top multi-level national and international management teams.
In some ways, Trump has had to operate in about as close a way as you could find, without having actually been a president yet.
Ted hasn’t clue one on any of this.
Reagan had been a governor. He had proven himself an effective administrator there. Ted can’t point to that type of experience.
“I’m all for kicking out illegals theoretically I guess. But selfishly, I’d rather not pay $5 for an avocado or $50 for a $20 bottle of wine because those CA industries will now have to try and employ Americans.”
If an industry can’t compete paying fair wages, then that industry shouldn’t be around anyway. We’ve been propping up losers for so long we’re all going to lose pretty soon if we keep doing it.
Neither Ted or Rubio have a clue about commerce of any kind. They are 2 rather young ego filled men who have seen the easy life in our government and want some of it. Easy? These elected do not work a full week, They talk a lot and accomplish very little.
Seasonal agricultural visas. That’s the way we used to do it and it worked out fine then. A bottle of Gallo isn’t any more expensive today when inflation is removed from the equitation.
“These elected do not work a full week, They talk a lot and accomplish very little.”
And go to parties. Lots of parties.
Then again the political class is so separated from reality they probably think they work at parties.
If Trump is the expert on commerce, I'd really like to hear what he has to say about Wickard v Filburn.
Thanks Rebelbase, I never thought of that. I guess we go to different kind of parties.
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