I am a professional tradesman – one of those guys you see standing on building framing with a pneumatic nailer, I know the construction industry. (I just work part time now, few hours a day)
Pre 1990s, say, most unskilled construction work went to low educated white and black males. It paid OK, and it was essentially an apprenticeship as well as casual work. If one worked it one could end up with a real living. If you had aptitude and worked at it one could become a professional tradesman and make a good living.
This ended with the illegal migration on the huge scale. The unskilled illegal migrants pushed down wages substantially – they were single young men with no dependents, living as groups in a house, eating cheap food they prepare, sharing a truck – any money was almost all profit to them. The Americans needed a house for them and their partner, and children, cars, and all the things life take as people living in their own country – they were priced out. The people who cut grass, the meat cutting plants, just every kind of unskilled work where documentation is not controlled, illegals took. They have destroyed the lives of the native, uneducated, young people.
Illegal migration – which is merely outsources your immigration policy to criminal cartels, have dome greater harm to the poor than anything else ever done! The Democrats HATE working poor. They want them on welfare and to be wrecking society so they can step in as a police state.
Amen, Brother.
Obviously the immigration matter is an old one. In 1943, for example, the US implemented a “bracero program” (guest worker program) to bring in agricultural laborers from Mexico. Why? Because the federal government had a more important job for all those Okies who populated the pages of “Grapes of Wrath”. Those folks had been picking peaches in California, but now they were set on taking down actual, real Fascism in Europe and East Asia. It was those Okies who landed on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima.
The Bracero program was shut down in about 1964.
As of late, Democrats are completely out of touch with average Americans. The party caters to white elites and the black community. But they have for sure lost the plot otherwise.
A massive sweeping overstatement! So do any politicians ever ‘give a damn’ about their voters?
The relationship is complex, is it not?
Ray Zacek
2 years ago
I certainly hope so and anticipate the Biden implosion that craters the Dem party.
Last edited 2 years ago by Ray Zacek
Chauncey Gardiner
2 years ago
It’s hard not to think that putting the Vice President nominally in charge of dealing with the immigration problem was just a dodge to buy time. The whole point is to throw the borders open and then enable these people to vote — and to vote illegally at that. We can’t be instituting common-sense voting processes!
The business of dealing with “root causes” is also a dodge. People involved in development economics have been puzzling over “root causes” for more than a century, and they find that they still can’t sort out how to reliably launch development and to sustain development. Dani Roderick (2008) and William Easterly (2003?) have nice books that elaborate this last point.
Blaming Trump is the most absurd dodge. A year ago a prospective migrant could do the math: pay a coyote $7,000 to $15,000 to get to the border, but being required to wait IN MEXICO for one’s asylum application to be processed might destroy the expected benefits of making the costly effort. So, they decide not to venture to the border in the first place. Problem solved in crisp, game theoretic fashion. “Staying home” corresponds to the equilibrium outcome. Awesome. But, the Biden administration willfully through that away. Why? Again, to induce a flood of illegal immigration and to create a new class of illegal voters.
I am a professional tradesman – one of those guys you see standing on building framing with a pneumatic nailer, I know the construction industry. (I just work part time now, few hours a day)
Pre 1990s, say, most unskilled construction work went to low educated white and black males. It paid OK, and it was essentially an apprenticeship as well as casual work. If one worked it one could end up with a real living. If you had aptitude and worked at it one could become a professional tradesman and make a good living.
This ended with the illegal migration on the huge scale. The unskilled illegal migrants pushed down wages substantially – they were single young men with no dependents, living as groups in a house, eating cheap food they prepare, sharing a truck – any money was almost all profit to them. The Americans needed a house for them and their partner, and children, cars, and all the things life take as people living in their own country – they were priced out. The people who cut grass, the meat cutting plants, just every kind of unskilled work where documentation is not controlled, illegals took. They have destroyed the lives of the native, uneducated, young people.
Illegal migration – which is merely outsources your immigration policy to criminal cartels, have dome greater harm to the poor than anything else ever done! The Democrats HATE working poor. They want them on welfare and to be wrecking society so they can step in as a police state.
Amen, Brother.
Obviously the immigration matter is an old one. In 1943, for example, the US implemented a “bracero program” (guest worker program) to bring in agricultural laborers from Mexico. Why? Because the federal government had a more important job for all those Okies who populated the pages of “Grapes of Wrath”. Those folks had been picking peaches in California, but now they were set on taking down actual, real Fascism in Europe and East Asia. It was those Okies who landed on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima.
The Bracero program was shut down in about 1964.
May I copy and paste your post, with attribution?
As of late, Democrats are completely out of touch with average Americans. The party caters to white elites and the black community. But they have for sure lost the plot otherwise.
The Democrats don’t give one infinitesimal damn about the Black Community except the way a milk farmer cares about his Jersey cows.
A massive sweeping overstatement! So do any politicians ever ‘give a damn’ about their voters?
The relationship is complex, is it not?
I certainly hope so and anticipate the Biden implosion that craters the Dem party.
It’s hard not to think that putting the Vice President nominally in charge of dealing with the immigration problem was just a dodge to buy time. The whole point is to throw the borders open and then enable these people to vote — and to vote illegally at that. We can’t be instituting common-sense voting processes!
The business of dealing with “root causes” is also a dodge. People involved in development economics have been puzzling over “root causes” for more than a century, and they find that they still can’t sort out how to reliably launch development and to sustain development. Dani Roderick (2008) and William Easterly (2003?) have nice books that elaborate this last point.
Blaming Trump is the most absurd dodge. A year ago a prospective migrant could do the math: pay a coyote $7,000 to $15,000 to get to the border, but being required to wait IN MEXICO for one’s asylum application to be processed might destroy the expected benefits of making the costly effort. So, they decide not to venture to the border in the first place. Problem solved in crisp, game theoretic fashion. “Staying home” corresponds to the equilibrium outcome. Awesome. But, the Biden administration willfully through that away. Why? Again, to induce a flood of illegal immigration and to create a new class of illegal voters.