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Evlgryn -> RE: Are Balck Americans Concerned at all about Illegals? (6/2/2007 12:08:26 AM)
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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy
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ORIGINAL: domiguy
Why were there not any white folks working at the site?....Maybe the Hispanics were the only ones willing to do the job.
Oh..there were a few white guys, in fact the traffic guy was white... but no black men in a city that's population is 60%+ African American. And I find it had to believe that the only people that would be willing to work on a government, union scale, schools repair project would be Hispanic.
Sorry, but buried in the loss of personal freedoms and other issues force fed to us wrapped in a flag since 9/11 and Katrina; is legislation that killed the "union scale" "local equivalent" pay scale for government jobs. Regan started the job, Bush finished it. With the death of that, the hegemony of the Local Union Hall and local tradesmen faded away just like grandmother months after the death of grandfather. Open a newspaper one day and read about efforts to secure work for "local crews" on any of these jobs in any town in the union. Hate to be the one that breaks it to you. I have been eagerly awaiting the opening of the first store in my state of a national sporting goods chain. The political issue holding up construction: they are unwilling to commit to hiring any significant number of workers from this state to build it. They have their own out of state crews.
The construction trade has gone "multinational" , bids go to big firms that travel from out of state with their own established crews. So the makeup of the local population that is paying for any Municipal/State/Federal (funding and practices makes these distinctions blurred too), public works project is irrelevent.
Now you have your spyglass out and are looking for a workforce coming from out of state, maybe many states away, and moving them in for a specific job. What you have is a similar model to the migrant workers who have been "essential" in the agriculture of america for years. In fact look at them closely, you may see some familiar faces. The hiring practices of these multi state if not multi national corporations have never been too finicky about green cards all they care about is bottom line.
My bonafides to join this discussion? I am an American , white, of the Irish American subgroup. The one that went from "No Irish Need Apply" to the white house in one century. Want to know how we did it? Rent "The Departed" we don't have time here.
What I am not, is rich and priveledged, or someone who hopes to claw his way into the ranks of the rich and priveledged, or someone who hopes to use his "family values" as a bludgeon against anyone who talks or looks a little different. In short I am not the owner of a multinational cartel, a TV televangelist or a Republican Insider. And I can tell you that these conversations between americans like dogs fighting over a bone, are making the people handing out the crap sandwiches really really happy.
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