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StrangerThan -> RE: Illegal Aliens may get "stimulus jobs" (3/9/2009 9:08:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lynnxz
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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
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Well, then I suppose that citizens will have to go actually apply for the jobs, and be the best choice over the illegal immigrant.
Hrm.
That isn't why illegals get hired. They get hired because they are cheaper.
C and I were somewhere when someone made a comment about "lazy mexicans" He looked at me and said... "Wait, isn't that an oxymoron?" The fact is, he's had much better success hiring immigrants, illegal or not. He pays them the same rate he would anyone else.
Just my pov.
I'd agree from those I know and have known it is pretty close to being an oxymoron. I grew up working crops in fields. I don't know what's to blame but people changed somewhere along the path. When I was a kid, laziness wasn't an option. Even the drunk you hired off the street corner to come help cut tobacco or put up hay worked his ass off. His ass usually stunk to high heaven and he sweated a river or two that smelled like a distillery, but he'd work. I left it for a couple of tours in the military, came back and worked my father-in-law's farm with him for a few years. Finding anyone who would do that kind of back-breaking, daybreak to dusk work became more than difficult. We started hiring hispanics and ya know, the people were good, the work went by fast, you could depend on them to be there the next morning. Everyone parted on good terms.
This is about more than Mexicans though. A few weeks ago, can't remember which institution, but a recipient of bail-out money turned out to have a hiring freeze on US workers. Seems they came out a lot cheaper off-shoring the work but didn't mind using taxpayer dollars to stay afloat. I don't care how you look at it, it is a slap in the face to the people who are paying for it, and it is not one that's going to float. This particular boat has holes all in it and is not going to be defensible. The one-liner crowd out there will try, but being snide is not going to make this right.
It is our money. It is our future. We have a right, if not a duty, in determining how it's used. How it should not be used is paying folks who are breaking law to begin with. This is one of those issues that will generate another one of the vigilante things where folks ride around watching stimulus funded projects and call in law enforcement when they see immigrants doing the work.
It will happen if someone doesn't take a stance to ensure money we're supposedly spending to help the US economy is viewed as being shipped out of the country. Why that's difficult to understand, I don't know.
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