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Old Man with a Hat
The times have changed Ross.
The reason people come to our country have changed.
How we absorb immigrants have changed.
How immigrants affect the economy has changed.
U.S. resources are not limitless. Stop looking at grainy photos of Ellis Island.
Our economy is under seige by the current immigration and social welfare laws. Without a strong economy, the U.S. becomes another India. Two classes. 99.9% in poverty with no resources available to them and 0.01% wealthy with access to all the resources.
Your grandfather didn't arrive here and be greeted by someone with a handbook printed in his language showing him all the welfare entitlement they have available to them. Your grandfather was greeted by a previous immigrant who handed him a paint brush and put him to work the next morning.
For gawdsakes, how many immigrants can be absorbed into the system now vs. 100 ( I repeat: 100!!) years ago?
Buisiness encourages current immigration standards because it the best source of cheap labor available. Relying on the misery of those in other countries to pay minimum wage in a job that has 90% turnover when 50 years ago that same job was a well paid craft supporting middle America. Middle America: GONE. Destroyed. Down the toilet. I applied for a P/T job at Home Depot for a minimum wage job just to stay active but never heard from them yet I see a thousand new Hispanic faces working there every time I go there. You figure it out. I don't fit the Home Depot/Walmart/etc. "profile" of the ideal new hire. That being a mindless idiot who questions nothing. Research that. There is now a "profile" used by retailers as the standard for hiring. I remember when sales people on the floor at Sears, etc, were "lifers" with good pay and benefits. Now you go to Michaels to pick up a painting that you dropped off last week to be framed and it's not ready as scheduled. They can't even find it because the "associate" that you gave it to last week is now working at Trader Joes. The new employee acts as dumb as a tree trunk because he can! The department manager you want to complain to is 19 years old and has been there two weeks and doesn't know how to handle the problem. The store manager is in his office locked up trying to figure out how to cut even more hours because of the District Manager who's looking for his $50.000.00 bonus.
Gary: Which mind enhancing pill do you recommend?s_dancing2:Woo-hoo!!
VERY well illustrated.
My theory is this: It is all because we (as consumers) want stuff as cheapo as utterly possible, but still expect the highest of high quality. Yes, that's about it. Capitalism demands we look at ourselves in the mirror.
