Irish, well the blame is because regular Americans are too LAZY to do these jobs. These manual jobs are beneath American men.
I used to believe that garbage to degree when I was living in Chicago. Then I moved to rural MO.
Within the first month of living here I was driving down main street here in town and I looked up and saw something so shocking I lost my senses and drove off the road into a parked car. When I awoke I was in a hospital and a cop was asking me what happened. I said “ you are not going to believe this officer but as I was driving to the store, I looked up and saw White Men putting up a roof of a commercial building. I was in such shock I drove off the road”.
After months of recovery, the following summer I was again driving through town and looked over at our nice Bank. What I saw was again so shocking I lost my senses and drove off the road into a dumpster. When I awoke I was in a hospital and the same cop was asking me what happened. I said “ you are not going to believe this officer but as I was driving to the store, I looked up and saw White Men doing the banks landscaping. Mowing and trimming and raking. And what really made me shocked was that the truck’s trailer for all the equipment did not have the Company Name Ramirez or Cruz, it was “Decker Lawn Maintenance”. It was such a shock I lost it.
The kicker was after recovery, I was at my son’s baseball practice and the coach came over and introduced himself. We were chewing the fat and I asked him what he did. “I’m a painter and DRYWALLER”. I almost had a heart attack. A white guy, born and bred in America can be a drywaller?
All the above is 100% true (except for the drama of accidents)/. American Men can and will do work. Just not for garbage pay. But unfortunately, Amendment 32 of the US Constitution states “US Business will have unlimited access to any and all potential labor sources regardless of immigration status, and if anyone opposes, they will be tried and convicted of racism”.
In my area all of those jobs had been done by whites when I was younger, and much of the skilled workers still are white guys. The problem is that nobody wants to pay them; NJ has been “Mexicanized”.
Nobody here in NJ believes these are jobs “Americans won’t do”, because most of us have seen them do them (and done them ourselves). I think that mantra plays better in areas where the Mexicanization took place decades ago. Remember all the Americans applying for the meat-packing jobs after the INS raids in the Midwest? When asked why they wanted the jobs that “Americans won’t do”, they replied that they were the ones who had worked in those plants before the owners replaced them with Mexicans...