>>I'd be curious to know how many of us here have lost jobs to illegal aliens. Anybody?<<
My brother used to make $25 to $75 an hour in construction. He moved to Arizona for health and to be with his girlfriend. Problem is he found out when he got down there, the going rate for his skills are about $6 and hour. And that's with no benefits, and no guarantee of regular work. Less skilled workers get far below minimum, as little as $2 and hour. In America. In the 21st century.
Uh hmmm. If that's true perhaps he should have checked the going rate before he moved.
I'm in Massachusetts and all the lawn care guys and snow plow guys are Mexicans. All the women Mexicans work at Burger King,McDonald's,and Dunkin Donuts.
Guess I have to question the seriousness of his illness if he is still able to be employed in AZ. As for the $25 -$75 -per hour, those inflated wages are reflected in the houses and new property developments that I can't even dream of ever buying. And even if I could, you couldn't ever convince me that the laborer making $15 an hour but not being governed by the UNION that your brother quite possibly was working for wouldn't produce the same quality of work as your brother!
In my humble opinion, If you are a laborer able to make $75 an hour, you had damn well better be able to turn steel nails into gold...........
As they say in the real estate business: Location, location, location........
It's about time the labor market governed by unions in this country wakes up! Their wages are escalated way beyond the levels that the majority of America can pay for the products they produce, that is why we are now seeing outsourcing.
I work in the auto industry for a tier I supplier and our plants' wages are well below what the Big 3 makes but yet are governed by our UAW bargaining agreement. How long do you think it is going to be before the the car industry prices itself out of the market for the rest of America whose wages don't even come close to what the auto worker makes?
Sorry, but the unions across the board are creating an environment ripe for employers to utilize the efforts of illegals just to even the playing field............