Posted on 02/14/2014 4:56:42 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says in an op-ed that the U.S. needs more low-skill immigration because Americans are not "qualified" or "willing" to do such work.
"Immigration can also address labor shortages in lesser-skilled fields where there are insufficient numbers of either qualified or willing U.S. workers to fill positions," Donohue writes.
Alabama senator Jeff Sessions tries to frame the issue differently. “We must transition struggling Americans from welfare and joblessness to work and rising wages,” says Sessions. “But the only plan the President and Senate Democrats appear interested in supporting would hollow out a shrinking American middle class. It is time to redefine 'immigration reform' to serve the legitimate interests of working Americans.”
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
“But the chamber also will get involved in Republican primaries if they think one candidate is more pro-business than another candidate.
It already has one notch in its belt — its candidate, Bradley Byrne, defeated a Tea Party-backed opponent in a November special election for a House seat in Alabama. In December, the chamber ran ads in support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who faces a Tea Party challenge in Kentucky.”
“Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says in an op-ed that the U.S. needs more low-skill immigration because Americans are not “qualified” or “willing” to do such work. “
Uh...Tom! Yo! Maybe Americans are ‘unqualified’ (although I disagree) because of a failed public school system? And, about that ‘unwilling’ notion...maybe we’ve made it too easy for them to be ‘unwilling’?
Nah, that can’t be it. Surely the progressives and socialists are better than that. Right?
Stupidity on a galactic scale.
Because corporations want millions of cheap employees that have no vote, do not have to be given obamacare and have few workplace rights. IOW they are all corporatist whores and care nothing about America or her citizens. This particular CEO is justthisclose to being a devout communist. He loves obamacare... I heard him tell Cavuto in no uncertain terms.
The Chamber apparently wants to create a society that works like Saudi Arabia. Give free stuff to citizens so that they don’t have to work and don’t want to work. Then, import foreigners to do the work that has to be done.
This, of course, is the Democrat plan as well. Except that using Motor Voter, absentee voting, and voting without ID, the Democrats plan to turn the non citizen immigrants into Democrat voters thus perpetuating their political power.
With the Chamber and American businesses now in the enemy camp, where does that leave the people who are paying all the bills for this Ponzi scheme?
“My first job other than pushing a mower around the neighborhood was on a chicken farm, 20 bucks a week. I rode my bike 12 miles each way to get there until I saved enough to buy a 1947 Cushman scooter.”
I made $1.10 an hour at my first job
Hispanic worker hurt, sues employer because signs at work are in English only
IMO, we have had a contiuation of the lessons from the war on poverty. Kids raised since 65 see this message: stay home and “our lady” show up with a check every week or month. No father, breadwinner, at home either. Today we have gone high tech and everyone gets SNAP cards and the like.
I recall my dad saying: what are you planning on doing this summer to earn your keep? I said, well, I have a part time gardiner job (about ten hours per week). He said yeah, you can keep that as a second job if you wish but I know a place hiring and you will be there tomorrow at 8AM to apply. Off I went or else as I did not want to find out what the or else was. It was minimum wage clerical and very boring at first.
But, I got my start and stayed there through college learning banking while getting my business degree.
Assuming your question isn't rhetorical, the answer is:
To Keep Wages Low.
Spoiled Americans expect a certain standard of living if they're busting their humps full time. That standard of living requires a certain wage level. Immigrants accept a much lower, Third World, standard of living, so do not demand higher wages. Lower wages...more profit for the employer. Higher wages...less profit for the employer.
In short, these are jobs that Americans won't do AT THE WAGES OFFERED. Now if you're a savvy business owner, you don't raise wages, you look for cheaper labor.
I guess the good news is that the number of Americans who truly expect to move into, or even maintain, the traditional middle class standard of living is shrinking, so these expectations are dwindling. Good news for the job creators, anyway.
“my dad”
That, sir, right there, is the answer.
The Chamber, La Raza and FWD.us, among others, have coalesced around a specific coordinated Twitter hashtag: #Ready4Reform. “Why do you support #immigration reform,” Zuckerberg’s lobbying firm tweeted Wednesday morning, in a tweet that included the hashtag and a video of a Hispanic woman giving her reason for supporting reform efforts.
“Crime rates are lowest in states with the highest immigration growth rates,” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce added, in a Tweet including the hashtag with a link to Chamber of Commerce advocacy pamphlet pushing for amnesty.
La Raza then tweeted a video from Zuckerberg’s group that “profiles tech leaders who traveled to Capitol Hill 4 #CIR fly-in to share why they are,” a tweet that also included the hash tag.
The National Immigration Forum (NIF), a group funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, has joined in on the Twitter hashtag campaign. NIF tweeted out a newspaper editorial, written in English but printed in Spanish-language media outlet La Opinion using the hashtag. NIF called the editorial “an excellent… editorial on the influence of 600+ #Ready4Reform leaders pushing for #immigrationreform.”
What name stands out to you in this article???
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
““Crime rates are lowest in states with the highest immigration growth rates,” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce added, in a Tweet including the hashtag with a link to Chamber of Commerce advocacy pamphlet pushing for amnesty.”
Does anyone believe crimes rates are lowest in states with the highest immigration growth rate???
Tom Donohue is an enemy of the people of the United States. If a hostile foreign nation had conquered the country would they act any differently than these Chamber of Commerce creeps.
$oro$
Soros Boasts of Spending $100 Million on U.S. Immigration Reform Push
I wonder how much Soros paid him?
People complain about corruption in Russia. We are every bit, if not more, corrupt than Russia is. And why Soros is still breathing is a mystery to me.
Like I said, the wealthy elites want cheap labor. That includes Soros.
Yup I mowed plenty of grass and worked on a dairy farm.
It’s possible they watch their step so they don’t get sent back home.
Public schools have churned out a generation of Americans too dumb to qualify for even low skilled labor. Kudos, teacher’s unions and Dept. of Education!
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