I can see so many valid points made by all.
I lived in Az and saw many many illegal immigrants pass by
my customer service desk at the bank I was working in.
As poor as they were at speaking english (a big issue with me)
they were no where near as rude as the American's. None of them ever
called me a B***** (or other choice words) nor did they use their steel toed
shoe to break the main bank glass door! My fellow american's did this and more!
When I needed help, moving or whatever, I could go (with a friend) and find a worker
willing to work for what I could pay (a fair wage for unskilled IMO of $10
an hour). Now I'm in Indiana, and it would cost me at least $25 an hour for
anyone to even cut down or pull out some bushes! Last year it cost me over $1100.00
to have my grass mowed 2x's a month for 4 months, which took them about a half hour ($45 ea).
Just grass, no leaves, no trimming,no nothing but grass cutting on a rider. Of course this
service didn't provide their workers with insurance or pensions to justify the added expense.
I can't afford that, so now I do my own thing, and what I can't do doesn't get done. I feel we both lose.
If a green card means you pay taxes and in turn contribute, (covering the health care costs these
people are getting for free only 1 issue) why not get more people signed up instead of sending them "home" only
to have them return next week???
On the other hand, I hate the fact that any of our food is imported!
Chicken from China - scarry! If the food is out of season, buy it canned or frozen!
We aren't perfect but at least we have some over-site of our processing etc.
Also, when we produce so much food, why should our dollars go to imported food?
That is really a place where we should be informed "grown and processed in America".
Is there something we can't grow here? Hard to believe it can't be grown anywhere, even
if it's outside the continental US. (Hawaii - Puerto Rico even).
Manufactured goods. I'm afraid we won't "make" anything here soon. A plastics plant just
folded after 40 years in business. Anyone out there think the demand for plastic has gone down?
Not in my experience. Yet, when I had a fence installed, I couldn't afford the quadruple price of
"plastic made from recycled materials" fencing I would have liked. Why does it have to be so
much more expensive than chain link, which also lasts 20+ years??? (I'm only guessing composite
fencing is made here in the US).
And selling the technology for China et al to be able to make quality goods for next to nothing by
using prisoners and children in the plants. That sale had to provide a profit for someone, just as it
surely caused xx employees in the US to lose their jobs. Are there no ramifications for this kind of
undermining of our country? Nope! The same old "the rich get richer" - and what trickles down is
pretty stinky!
I don't believe we should provide for everyone who could and should be working. What do you do
when you are over 50 and have retrained 3 times already and still can't get a job (now you're over-
qualified) and don't believe there isn't age discrimination! The only jobs out there are : stand on your
feet for 8 hours a day, work all kinds of odd shifts, get no pension or health insurance, behave like a
robot, and get paid so little you can't afford to live (6.50). All the incentive checks in the world aren't gonna fix
this. Could someone that age work doing instructions for products? Sure, but those are being outsourced to company's whose workers can barely comprehend or write in English (put tab A into
the slot
???
We have laws for everything, from smoking bans to how high your grass can be, what kind of vehicle you can park
in your own driveway, if you can legally put up a fence: the list goes on and on! Yet we allow companies to
export all our jobs to other countries and acquire small companies for the express purpose of closing them down for a tax write off and kicking more people to the curb.
All this grinds my gears!
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