MAINE TOURISM BUSINESSES SAY 'HELP WANTED' - hopes congress raises the cap on visas

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[Final Authority]

First response said if they offered more money there would be no problem. I believe this is only part of the problem. The main issue is wages coupled with a captive labor pool. The ski industry has this figured out by recruiting college aged folks from South Africa to work the winter. It works for a resort if they can find cheap housing, have ready transportation, and they can speak English. They are at work because the van comes to get them and they agree to a set duration of service so the resort is set for the season. One can live with Mexican housekeepers and dishwashers but for most other service personnel one should speak English, have a sense of the class of the guests and be clean and attractive. The Balsams in NH's mountains where they charge more than $200 a day per guest would not hire non English speakers to manage the pool or golf courses but might consider others to wash dishes, I think. When I've been a guest only white people of European decent were visible.

[dangus]

As opposed to paying for it through school taxes, property taxes, lost income,...

1. It is not true that all higher costs are necessarily passed onto the consumer, especially given such an elastic market as vacation resorts.

2. So what if they are? *I* make *MY* money through labor. I don't *WANT* the labor marker devalued.

Basically you're asking me to put up with:
1. Higher federal, state, local, school, and propert taxes;
2. Conjestion, pollution, and development;
3. Millions of Democratic voters added to the rolls;

so I can get:
1. A nation which no longer can conduct itself in English;
2. A depressed labor market;
3. all the ensuing social problems.

No wonder President Bush is losing to a fascist reamimation of Lurch's evil brother!

[dangus]

>> ME would be off adressing how to get citizens who want to work to where the jobs are. <<

ME Too! ME no like visa rip-offs. ME want help Americans find jobs.

[MineralMan]

And here's what you're likely to get:

Ruin Sorbees

Room Service (RS): Morny. Ruin sorbees.
Guest (G): Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service.

RS: Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??
G: Uh, yes... I'd like some bacon and eggs.

RS: Ow July den?
G: What?

RS: Ow July den? Pry, boy, pooch?
G: Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please.

RS: Ow July dee bayhcem--crease?
G: Crisp will be fine.

RS: Hokay. An san tos?
G: What?

RS: San tos. July San tos?
G: I don't think so

RS: No? Judo one toes??
G: I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what "judo one toes means."

RS: Toes! toes! Why djew don juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?
G: English muffin! I've got it! You were saying "Toast." Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine.

RS: We bother?
G: No, just put the bother on the side.

RS: Wad?
G: I mean butter--just put it on the side.

RS: Copy?
G: Sorry?

RS: Copy, tea, mill?
G: Yes. Coffee please, and that's all.

RS: One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy--rye?
G: Whatever you say.

RS: Tendjewberrymud.
G: You're welcome.

[dangus]

Many, many *chuckle*s!
Denjewberrymud!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I had nearly that exact conversation at a Marriott in Washington DC last week.

Were you listening in?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The Meadowmere Resort in Ogunquit can't fill ten of their positions. If they don't have enough chambermaids, the resort might have to close a section of the hotel this summer.

This is America...they don't know how to hire illegals like everyone else?

[Madame Dufarge]

Unbelievable, huh?

It's like Baldacci's going out of his way to make the state a complete laughing stock.

[Madame Dufarge]

Classic!

[SheLion]

It's like Baldacci's going out of his way to make the state a complete laughing stock.

I truly believe he's a plant. Just when we thought it couldn't get worse with King.........the Democruds voted in Baldy. Maine is on a fast track to destruction. :(

It started when Baldy was a Senator and he worked with Rep. Tom Allen and the Catholic Charities to bring in all those Somali's to Lewiston. As if Mainers needed more mouths to feed.