Posted on 03/13/2024 12:38:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
ransomnote: I enlarged the two attachments in that embedded tweet:
ransomnote: SO I guess we watch for large manufacturers to use the promise of cheap foreign labor cut their domestic employment costs. One strategy: maybe just ignore regulatory issues until a 'red tape shutdown,' let all (domestic) employees go, drag feet through regulatory correction and then WHAM!!!! Hire back cheap using all those illegals waiting for citizenship. Brandon then brags about his job creation prowess.....
“Doing the jobs Americans don’t want”. BS. We have a huge homeless problem today exactly because there are too many illegal aliens taking the jobs they would otherwise be doing.
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“Doing the jobs Americans don’t want”
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Yep.
I don’t know how many of these are H1-B, so I really shouldn’t be making assumptions, but it really shouldn’t be so easy and even rewarded for American companies to pay non-Americans. American citizens aren’t going to go to technical school or even STEM vocational programs to learn technical trades that aren’t there because it’s cheaper for corporations to pay non-Americans.
Granted, these probably aren’t all 6 figure jobs, but they aren’t toilet cleaning and ditch digging jobs either.
I’ve been around many kinds of employers - from farmers to chicken processors, to fast food/service industry. They all, without exception, are crying (and have been for decades) how they cannot get workers worth a crap - who will show up and work an honest day’s labor for an honest day’s pay. Even when raising their opening hourly pay + benefits. “Americans’ have, as a whole, become a lazy culture. Sure - there are still some hard-working folks. But there is a reason that your chicken in processed primarily by Hispanics. Even $25/hr and a $5000 starting bonus if you say for at least 4 weeks doesn’t keep “Americans” working there.
Why work? When you can stay home and claim any number of socialist welfare programs, federal, state, and local - and even non-profit? When you can panhandle on a busy street corner and make more than 50% of the population in the area. All you have to do is endure cold or rain (those are the highest-income days for most panhandlers).
This “huge homeless problem” is a product of several things - but mostly of the bad decision of drug abuse (#1 cause), and mental illness (the #2 cause - but greatly influenced and compounded by #1).
I agree with that. A better solution is no more government handouts, send all the illegal aliens back, and crack down on the drug cartels. Give the FBI something to do for a change.
Have you seen the homeless?
They wouldn’t be working for $50 an hour.
The other illegals have been selling them Fentanyl.
Yep. It’s quite simple (though will be painful for many -and no politician on the planet with a backbone to actually do it):
1 - Immediately cease ALL government (taxpayer)-funded “benevolence” programs. The Constitution in no way authorizes government handouts.
2 - Round up and deport every un-documented “immigrant (aka - illegal aliens) and deport them.
3 - close and rightly control the border.
4 - Mandatory and comprehensive “means testing” for any governmental aid.
5 -repeal the tax penalty for working more (aka the progressive tax tables). No-one should pay a higher proportion of their income in taxes just because they earned more money.
And this would be a good START...
I’ve seen very “organized “ panhandling. Vans dropping off and picking them up high traffic locations - busy intersections, shopping centers and malls. My wife thinks it Church groups or charitable organizations doing the “dropping off & picking up”. I think she is engaging in wishful thinking.
I haven’t seen that level of “organizing” - but have definitely seen folks dropped off - and sometimes the same vehicle dropping panhandlers at consecutive intersections.
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