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2020-05-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Jeff Sessions: Why Bring Foreign Workers to U.S. When 30,000,000 Americans Are Jobless?

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-05 03:42|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 IMO, he should remember meat packing plants - the current group of indentured laborers are all sick, new one is needed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-05 03:52|| 2020-05-05 03:52|| Front Page Top

#2 There's no economic reason to bring in any worker on less than average wage, there's plenty of pork-spending when low market-productivity foreign workers immigration is subsidised (leading to lower wage bills and higher rents, both of which the globalist establishment gain from).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-05 06:31|| 2020-05-05 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 That all sounds great, but the reality is few Americans would perform such labor. Many were lead to believe that if they get a university degree they can get a job in their field of study and be set. How many foreign students come to major in Women's Studies or Urban Studies? Anyway, also look at Germany, for example. Very few Germans work the asparagus fields. Now they fly them in from Romania. Poles used to be the predominant seasonal workers. So, it's not just here. Not saying we like it, but that is reality.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-05 07:05|| 2020-05-05 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, those low-wage workers have to pay the same as everyone else for food, rent, health care, etc. The answer, of course, is to pack them into slum apartments, let them drive without a license or insurance, let them go to the emergency room (but not pay) when they need medical care and subsidize their daily living expenses via welfare. Add in the cost of schooling their kids. This is just transferring money from the taxpayer to their employers, also known as "privatizing profit while socializing risk," or "rent-seeking," if you prefer.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-05 07:17|| 2020-05-05 07:17|| Front Page Top

#5 As a general rule, a dish on the menu containing Serrano Peppers likely needs no additional hot sauce.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-05 07:54|| 2020-05-05 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 then he promptly rolled over and went back to sleep

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-05 08:23|| 2020-05-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Even blind pigs occasionally find an ear of corn.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-05-05 11:49|| 2020-05-05 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Bullshit, Clem. That's the same argument George W. Bush tried to make. That's telling us that we need slave labor just like the Old South, just like the Chinese Communists. Cut out welfare and subsidized housing. Pay decent wages. People will work. And if you can't find anybody to pick your asparagus then you do without asparagus. When there is a shortage of asparagus and people are willing to pay for it then people will pick it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-05 11:58|| 2020-05-05 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 But when the word gets out that certain employers only hire foreign slaves, it discourages American citizens from applying for those jobs.

I remember when high school and college kids used to work at fast food restaurants. It was their first step up the economic ladder. It was their first job and it gave them a dose of the real world that kids these days don't understand. It wasn't meant to allow them to buy a house or raise a family. The kids understood that if they wanted more money they would have to learn some marketable skills and find a better job.

These days, in San Diego at least, all those jobs are taken by people who speak Spanish. You can't understand what they say and they can barely understand what you want when you're placing your order. They want $15 an hour for menial labor so they can buy houses and raise families. They do not expect to go to any kind of school to improve their skill sets. They do not aspire to anything but food service. But they sure as hell want more money. And we'll pay for it every time we buy a hamburger.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-05 12:08|| 2020-05-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Abu vs Clem
Wasn't where a story about a chicken processing plant raided by ICE - once illegals were gone, the jobs were taken by Americans?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-05 12:13|| 2020-05-05 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Stopped at an Arby's (road trip).
American teen order taker, fashionable glue on nails. I asked for the routine burger analog.

"...and what to drink?", she says.
"Ah'l have a milk," I reply.
"What?"
"a carton of milk."
"I don't understand."
"A carton of milk. Cow milk. Milk from a cow."
Standing there with a befuddled look on her face, her manager came over, reached into the fridge and gave me a milk, with a "I'm sorry, pity me" apologetic look.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-05 12:46|| 2020-05-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Has he recused himself from the election campaign yet?

Posted by charger 2020-05-05 13:19|| 2020-05-05 13:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Why always think of low-end workers?
Stop the H1b program.

Waiters can count change for tips. Restaurant managers can run books and inventory on hand. Make them programmers and warehouse logisticians or account managers.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-05 15:33|| 2020-05-05 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't understand this bull shit talk of "slaves". These people aren't slaves. It's just that g.d. simple. "Forcing" Americans to do something they may not want to do sounds more like slavery to me. If no one wants to pick, for example, tomatoes, then so f'in what? Then we go without. But somehow I think a free market (which we do not have) would figure it out.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-05 16:15|| 2020-05-05 16:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Clem - warning #1

Posted by 3dc 2020-05-05 17:08|| 2020-05-05 17:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Clem — take it down to PG language, please. We have youngsters reading here as well as adults.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-05 17:15|| 2020-05-05 17:15|| Front Page Top

#17 These people aren't slaves.

At least some of the illegal alien field hands, etc. indentured themselves to pay off the transit fee charged by the coyotes, ie. human traffickers, and have no say in what work they do nor do they get to keep their pay. De facto slaves if not de jure, and a practice of long standing — they can’t go to the police to complain lest they be arrested as illegals and presumably expelled from the country. This is such a long-standing threat that it’s been a staple of television cop and legal shows for decades.

But slaves or not, willing of not, America’s labour laws make it illegal for them to work for less than the minimum wage, so their consent is as illegal as an underage girl or boy consenting to s3xual relations. Require the illegals to comply with the same laws as American citizens, or allow Americans to work under the same conditions accepted by illegals, and see what happens. In most cases, having the entire workforce speak the same language and share the same culture will generate major cost savings

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-05 17:39|| 2020-05-05 17:39|| Front Page Top

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