Posted on 06/20/2008 4:32:50 PM PDT by Dysart
FORT WORTH — The bus that ferries workers twice daily to the Day Labor Center in south Fort Worth is partially empty, but the center’s parking lot is nearly full.
Soon there won’t be enough room to accommodate the vehicles of the workers, who have to drive to the center because contractors are more likely to hire them if they have their own transportation.
But high gas prices are forcing contractors and day laborers to change how they do business, which is causing a ripple effect in other areas.
Construction projects and landscaping jobs are being delayed because contractors can’t afford to pick up workers. And workers faced with additional costs for gasoline or the purchase of a car are giving up on day-labor jobs and going back to their home countries.
"Your car is your job; nothing is more true these days," said Warren Harris, human services coordinator for the center, which assists between 60 and 70 day laborers a day.
A car, however, is a luxury that not every worker who frequents the center can afford.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
Heck, that would be WORTH $4.00 a gallon!
susie
Yay! The high prices might be worth it, if all the illegal aliens will leave.
Getting rid of the energy demands of 20 to 30 million people couldn’t hurt either.
What happened to their burros?
That’s only cuz the oil companies won’t hire illega@##@%% umm err...undocumented workers.
Damn oil workers, doing the jobs that Americans will do.
Ummm... thanks for all the cheap non-taxable labor. See you guys in the next boom cycle.
And hence...the silver lining!
The burros formed a union and demanded a corn based diet, and as we know that's unsustainable these days. Times are hard all over.
...There’s that silver lining showin’ up again!
Great minds ;-)
Adam Smith is proven correct once again.
Sit tight. Before long, some pol will make a speech decrying this unfairness to those who just want a better life for themselves and their families. Taxes to pay for gas vouchers for illegals, coming to a sanctuary city near you!
BUMP!
Not if the 95% of us who financed their presence in the US this time around can help it.
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!
GTFO illegal aliens! Now I’m liking gas at $4.09
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The journalist (?) that penned this article used the word “workers” a whole bunch of times. A worker is someone doing a job. If they are simply hanging around in a private or tax payers parking lot then these INSURGENTS are loitering. There, two broken laws in a single sentence.
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