Reply #39: Dream On

[thethinker]

The idea that illegal immigrants are taking only field jobs is simply not true. Let me give you an example. A few years back new construction homes provided high paying jobs for plumbers, framers, carpenters, tile guys, etc. Now all new construction is built by illegal immigrants. The way the builders get by with it is they subcontract framing to one guy. The one guy goes and picks up a truck load of illegals. The house is built start to finish with illegal immigrants. Have you noticed the cost of new construction homes going down? No, the builder pockets the difference. Where I live all the major builders build their houses this way. Do you think the illegal immigrant gets even half the wage the Americans got? Believe me they don't.

This is only one example.

I also think your attitude is very elitist. It is like you are saying blue collar jobs don't matter. You are awfully generous in giving away someone else's means of employment.

But it doesn't stop with blue collar jobs. The guest worker program is taking many high paying professional jobs also. For instance, nursing. They are importing nurses like crazy. You think they can't hire them here? It isn't about filling a job. It is about filling the job with an employee that will work for 1/4 or less of the standard wage. They are also outsourcing every job they can find in the medical profession, like reading cat scans. Do you want your cat scan read in India when your life might depend on it? This is about greed. Hospitals are very profitable before the games.

They greedy CEOs will not stop until they reduce the wages on every worker in America.