Reply #25: Ditto

[LoneDriver]

For several years I hired taxi drivers in a major city. Long hours, low status work but good pay if they worked hard. They had to be legal, it was checked by the licensing agencies. Very easy minimum requirements, over 21, no DUI's not too bad a criminal and driving record, etc.

We ran classified ads in LAT and Daily News so it was not a secret. This period included some hard times like Reagan's recession.

Applicants were from all over, and I mean ALL over the world. Perhaps 1 in 500 was not an immigrant,

It sure left me with the impression that there were jobs that Americans would not do.