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The US is facing a labor shortage — immigration is the solution
The Hill ^ | 08/18/2023 | OHANNES LANG AND ZUZANA CEPLA

Posted on 08/18/2023 6:06:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27
This followed a poll showing that four out of five Americans support bipartisan cooperation on immigration that would address labor shortages and inflation.

Uh, huh. A poll conflating illegal immigration with bringing down high inflation. Yeah, sounds legit.

21 posted on 08/18/2023 6:34:15 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lazy sumbiches get out and mow your own yard.


22 posted on 08/18/2023 6:38:55 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ya - while you tell millions of American citizens ...”you’re entitled to everything for free.” ....”so don’t work, go rob those stores and steal cars!!”


23 posted on 08/18/2023 6:40:24 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The solution is decent pay instead of slave wages.


24 posted on 08/18/2023 6:41:37 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nearly 70% of Illegal immigrants are on the dole. 8,.egal immigrants cost our country 1 trillion dollars or more per year when all the costs are added up

Illegal immigration is NOT the answer


25 posted on 08/18/2023 6:45:59 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stopping abortion is the answer..


26 posted on 08/18/2023 6:46:37 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A look to the "Civilian labor force participation rate" from the government's Bureau of Labor statistics shows that "participation" is currently at 62.6 percent.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

Lots of US labor isn't laboring. Over one-third of the "labor" isn't laboring.

But The Hill is indeed "laboring" to present a picture devoid of actual reality. It's what the corrupt and the Left, Democrats and RINOs do.

One of the article's writers works at Schimdt Futures, whose website is copyrighted by Futures Action Network LLC. Interestingly, Futures Action Network is identified as a "FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY." (Tracing this further back, it is a UK entity, something that neither The Hill article nor Schmit identify.

Source: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/5395357
Schimdt URL: https://www.schmidtfutures.com/

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/5395357

"Foreign limited liability companies" are lobbying government, and "messgaing" through media their "foreign" aims.

27 posted on 08/18/2023 6:47:26 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
--- "The solution is decent pay instead of slave wages."

Cutting the size of a bloated government and ceasing deficit spending would go a long way to healing economic freedom, which creates private sector jobs.

28 posted on 08/18/2023 6:49:31 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Not exactly. It’s in II Thessalonians. It allows for people who aren’t able to work.

” ... this we commanded you, that if any would not (WILL NOT) work, neither should he eat.” People who make the choice not to work should not eat.


I’m no Pauline expert, but the fifth edition of the Nestle Aland shows no textual variants and the verbs are very straight forward:

θέλει verb indicative present active 3rd person singular from θέλω

ἐσθιέτω. verb imperative present active 3rd person singular from ἐσθίω


“He who is not working must not eat” would be a lethal/hyper-literal translation just looking at the tenses. The Catholic position is that one must take the phrase in the context of not only the whole of the book, but the whole of the Pauline corpus, the whole of the Bible, and the whole of Church tradition. But as for non-Catholics, who am I to judge? And even for Catholics, who am I to judge?


29 posted on 08/18/2023 6:50:13 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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30 posted on 08/18/2023 6:50:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I have said for a long time that the biggest problem we face in the U.S. in our labor market is that too many people are simply unemployable. The numbers are probably staggering.

Everyone I know who has stories to tell about workplaces with mixed American/immigrant employees in semi-skilled and administrative positions tells me the same thing, and it paints a pathetic picture of the American work force.

31 posted on 08/18/2023 6:51:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Immigration does not include illegal aliens..... except in the minds of traitors.


32 posted on 08/18/2023 6:52:31 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Move the Overton window to the right with defenestration.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Not only are illegals NOT immigrants, they are probably not skilled illegals either. Do we have that many stables that need to be cleaned? Don’t forget that Joe Biden should get first crack at that job. The people we should be concentrating on would be the ones that were or are to be aborted. At least they would be citizens. The number of abortions would at least start to make up a LEGAL U.S. work force in time. We are systematically being robbed of U.S. citizens each year & guess who is allowing it to happen?


33 posted on 08/18/2023 6:53:03 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Alberta's Child

Over time it became a “self-fulfilling prophecy”. Americans felt jobs that illegals do are “beneath them.”


34 posted on 08/18/2023 6:53:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bankwalker

the Dignity Act.

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Cuz nothing conveys dignity quite like

Debt, labor, child and sex slavery.


35 posted on 08/18/2023 6:53:41 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Tennessee Nana

I read this book to my kids when they were young. Today, it would be college level reading, but all Americans should read it:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Red_Fox_and_His_Canoe.html?id=qLaOzgEACAAJ

Little Red Fox gets a big canoe from his father. He goes out fishing. Forest animals see his big, empty canoe and want to ride in it. In his good nature, Red Fox let’s them in, one by one. The canoe gets overcrowded and breaks in half, and all Red Fox’s “friends” abandon him. He is left to paddle home in a piece of his broken canoe.


36 posted on 08/18/2023 6:54:10 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
The solution is decent pay instead of slave wages.

That's a good solution. It probably wouldn't work in the area where I live ... because we have dozens of employers competing for the same workers.

Some of the big industrial employers around here deal with this challenge by using 15-passenger vans to shuttle employees from 50+ miles away.

37 posted on 08/18/2023 6:54:34 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Not only are illegals NOT immigrants, they are probably not skilled illegals either. Do we have that many stables that need to be cleaned? Don’t forget that Joe Biden should get first crack at that job. The people we should be concentrating on would be the ones that were or are to be aborted. At least they would be citizens. The number of abortions would at least start to make up a LEGAL U.S. work force in time. We are systematically being robbed of U.S. citizens each year & guess who is allowing it to happen?


38 posted on 08/18/2023 6:55:16 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Hieronymus

Yep. And our early congresscritters and the president at the time understood the constitution didn’t give the fedgov the authority to hand out tax money like a charity. In fact, for the instance mentioned, they ‘passed the hat’ and contributed out of their own pocket. Which is what these commiecrats should be forced to do if they truly ‘care’ so much about the welfare types.


39 posted on 08/18/2023 6:56:36 AM PDT by curious7
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The absence of “cheap labor” will create a market for robots and other automation.

Hispanic labor may be cheap for businesses, but when they drop anchor babies and get Food Stamps, Section 8 housing, etc, then these businesses have just shifted costs onto taxpayers.


40 posted on 08/18/2023 6:57:06 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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