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
You're welcome. While our fellow Freeper enjoyed the fruits of success by employing low wage illegals, my wife and I saw our business shrink to barely subsistence levels.
I once employed Americans to do skilled labor at $30 an hour, but after years of unfair competition from those who don't play by the rules, my business shrank to the point where I couldn't afford a single legal employee, at any rate of pay.
Only through dogged determination and ridiculously hard work, have my wife and I recovered to the point where we're at least capable of feeding our kids and paying our bills.
I can't begin to tell you how much my family has suffered because of the destruction illegals have brought upon my industry. And there are tens of thousands of small contractors across the country who've suffered just as badly as we have.
I hear someone like our friend bragging about his success in the construction industry, and I want to throw up. He's actually profited from helping these invaders to destroy my life.
Leni, this might surprise you but I agree with most everything you said down to where you said I was “crowing” about my hiring practices on a conservative website. Are you suggesting a new rule on FR to ban anyone that doesn’t agree with you and Windflier on the Guest Worker/Amnesty ISSUES and does not hold a union card? Or, are you suggesting that on FR the majority of comments we see are pro union and pro right to work?
If you had read a little more carefully than you obviously did you would possibly have understood that my comments were about AMNESTY...and nothing else...........NOT the Union Labor Scale vs the Non Union Labor Scale or Right to Work States vs Non Right to work States or the efficacy of either policy.
You and Windflier sound like you come from Right to Work states and are card carrying Union guys. Fine, I was a member of a Union once myself, no problem. But, I live in Texas which is a Non Right to Work State and therefore I have had to deal with that FACT for 40 years in all my projects.
Finally, the argument that if we would just simply unionize all workers all problems will go away is beyond simplistic and therefore not a discussion many will agree to even conduct, particularly in Texas.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, I appreciated your comments and respect your viewpoints.