Matt Davies for September 22, 2021

“But they’ll take our jobs!”

Businesses can’t find workers who will work at indentured servant wages, thus you would think they would be open to opening the borders.

It’s that damn wall that Mexico paid for!

It’s way more than that. Some have gotten used to staying home and don’t want to go back to work. Some found work at home and don’t need to go back to their old job. Others are still reluctant to return to work as long as the virus is still out of control in many places. This pandemic has changed the world in many ways.

It’s what one of my friends called “the pound of methedrine for fifteen cents,” they’re searching for people who’ll work for nothing.

We DO have (sadly) 650,000 vacancies thanks to Trump’s pandemic “management” and we can spend the money we won’t be spending on Afghanistan to resettle people and pay decent wages.

Cowboys who think crowd control is a rodeo event need not apply.

Too bad the homeless population is increasing.

There is a lot of the ‘slave-owner’ mentality in corporate America. Workers are supposed to be ‘grateful’ for their jobs instead of owners being grateful that they have good workers. Workers during the pandemic have been expected to work extra hours and often under less-than-safe conditions. [Note the reasons given for the recent Frito Lay and Nabisco strikes] And, when people realize that CEOs get several hundred times the average worker . . . well, that sort of takes away the gratitude and enthusiasm about going to work every day. “Chief executives of big companies [in the USA] now make, on average, 320 times as much as their typical worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In 1989, that ratio was 61 to 1. From 1978 to 2019, compensation grew 14 percent for typical workers. It rose 1,167 percent for C.E.O.s.” [NYT 11 May 2021] And these figures are from before the pandemic. Guesstimates are that the disparity has increased even more in the last two years.

If only a few thousand of those eager migrants were certified ICU nurses, we would welcome them.

We need a migrant worker program like most other countries have

Off topic, but is anyone else having trouble with the notifications? They keep showing old ones as new, some a month or more. No matter how many times I dismiss or read them, they come back up.

Immigrant labor is as close as the Chamber of Commerce can get to slave labor. Never forget that profits have always been more important than human rights in America.

Why do you think white people refuse to do the jobs immigrants are willing to work, for the wages and worker safety standards being offered?

A lot of people would rather not go back to the same place that dumped them without a care.

If you’re employing illegals you belong in jail.