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America's "Labor Shortage"

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Fire Pen [OP]

2003-11-08 15:31 | User Profile

[B][CENTER]Is it Now Big Business Vs. America? By Charles Angione[/CENTER][/B]

With the unemployment rate exceeding 6% and manufacturing jobs disappearing at a rate of 83,000 a month (most going overseas), one would think there would be no problem finding employees to work for you. Certainly there should be no necessity to import foreign workers from the third world or illegal Mexican workers. Ah, but according to people like Linda Chavez (and virtually all the mass immigration elites), “undocumented” workers do the jobs that Americans will not. Apparently, we have a dire shortage of certain critical occupations. Pool cleaners and lawn rakers seem to be among the most scarce. Hotel cleaning women and busboys are also desperately needed.

Since I don’t employ servants (I rake my own lawn, and I haven’t got a pool), I was unaware of this shortage. I have since learned, however, that illegals do perform a large percentage of these low-level jobs – and many higher level ones as well.

Conservatives have, for many years, steadfastly resisted the liberal’s abhorrence of big business. “What’s good for business is good for America,” we argued. And we were right. But what was it that made it so? Tax breaks and favorable laws for business encouraged expansion, increased production and provided good jobs for Americans.

Now a large and growing percentage of American businesses are [I]not[/I] providing jobs for Americans. Instead, they (a) seek out the cheap labor of illegal immigrants, who are in no position to negotiate wages or benefits – or blow the whistle on employers for unlawful practices, or (b) send the work offshore (to China, India, Mexico, etc.) for those willing to toil under substandard conditions for a pittance.

Legal immigrants and native lower-income Americans are forced to compete, which drives down the pay and perks for these jobs. The fact is that everywhere illegal immigrants or foreign workers are hired, the workforce has seen a dramatic cut in wages. This not only applies to unskilled and semi-skilled workers, but also to skilled workers, technicians and even professionals.

Although the toxic effect on the U.S. economy of massive immigration and off shoring has been well established, many businessmen are more than willing to sell out their country for a higher bottom line. It is their corporate special interest which lobbies congress for amnesties, foreign “guest” workers and open borders.

Unfortunately, It does not take much convincing for invertebrate politicians to turn a blind eye to the invasion because of their desire for ethnic votes and corporate support. It is particularly Ironic that the Democratic “party of the working man” enthusiastically supports cutting jobs and wages of American workers, including many minorities.

It must be said: The fact is that both major parties, from their ongoing assault on the U.S. Constitution to their sacrificing of their country’s economic health and border security for raw power, are guilty of treason.

As for the labor unions, many of whom salivate for fresh members, most go along with the program. The mystery is why any American worker does. Why would anyone so shabbily held in contempt by both business and labor, and abandoned by their own country, continue to support a politician or labor leader who encourages illegal (or massive legal) immigration, NAFTA or GATT?

For some, of course, this rip-off is erroneously seen as “free trade,” and like religious faith, is beyond ideologues’ reason or examination, despite all evidence to the contrary. Others know better, but they are either too enmeshed in the profit making or cannot bring themselves to risk excommunication.

The American taxpayer thus continues to support big business by paying for illegal immigrants who are over-represented on both our welfare roles and in our crime statistics. And this is not even to consider such trivialities as the preponderance today’s immigrants who display a contempt for our history and language, and an open hostility for our traditions. How much longer can America survive this assault on both our economy and culture? How much longer will her people stand still for it?

Okiereddust

2003-11-08 15:54 | User Profile

Quite similar to an article I just posted here. [url=http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=10964]Wall Street vs. America[/url]

It is quite discouraging, but somehow expected, to see how big business was so patriotic and cloaked itself in Americanism when it needed us in the fight against Communism, but now cynically casts us aside. But its just the way the neocons have always used their inferiors. There is no honor among theives and scoundrels.

BTW, do you have a link for this very good article?

Fire Pen

2003-11-08 16:11 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Quite similar to an article I just posted here. [url=http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=10964]Wall Street vs. America[/url]

It is quite discouraging, but somehow expected, to see how big business was so patriotic and cloaked itself in Americanism when it needed us in the fight against Communism, but now cynically casts us aside. But its just the way the neocons have always used their inferiors. There is no honor among theives and scoundrels.

BTW, do you have a link for this very good article?[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the kind words. You can find this piece among some others on my home made website [url]www.enter.net/~chiefops[/url]

Franco

2003-11-08 20:49 | User Profile

MAYBE IF American labor was not dominated by Communist-led labor unions, we would not be seeing our jobs going buh-bye! Hmmm??

Labor unions = Marxism.

Fire Pen

2003-11-10 14:25 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Franco]MAYBE IF American labor was not dominated by Communist-led labor unions, we would not be seeing our jobs going buh-bye! Hmmm??

Labor unions = Marxism.[/QUOTE]

The fact that Big Labor has been anti-American is not a good enough excuse for Big Business selling out America. "A pox on both their houses."

Fire Pen

Texas Dissident

2003-11-10 16:46 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Franco]MAYBE IF American labor was not dominated by Communist-led labor unions, we would not be seeing our jobs going buh-bye! Hmmm??

Labor unions = Marxism.[/QUOTE]

Spoken just like an open borders, global markets, Wall St. Journal neo-con Trotskyite. I'm surprised at you, Franco. For all practical purposes, labor unions are dead in this country. This is not a good thing, in my opinion. If labor was strong, the plutocratic, corporate robber-barons would think twice before outsourcing manufacturing to commie Chinks.

Mithras

2003-11-10 17:14 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Spoken just like an open borders, global markets, Wall St. Journal neo-con Trotskyite. I'm surprised at you, Franco. For all practical purposes, labor unions are dead in this country. This is not a good thing, in my opinion. If labor was strong, the plutocratic, corporate robber-barons would think twice before outsourcing manufacturing to commie Chinks.[/QUOTE]

But the labor unions are run by marxists. They organized the free illegal immigrants ride, and they are all dumbocrats.

Texas Dissident

2003-11-10 18:44 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Mithras]But the labor unions are run by marxists. They organized the free illegal immigrants ride, and they are all dumbocrats.[/QUOTE]

I wasn't defending the current state of the labor unions here in the U.S., rather the concept and reasons for labor unions. Even so, as I stated labor unions are for all practical purposes a dead issue today, especially when considered in light of the seemingly omnipotent power of transnational finance and open-border capitalism dictating all the rules. Globalist plutocracy is the real enemy. The multi-national corporation that wouldn't hesitate to send your job overseas or bring in foreign workers to replace you if it meant they could save a nickel on the bottom line. If you know of any other method besides unionizing to fight back then I'm all ears.

Franco

2003-11-10 19:53 | User Profile

Look at who invented labor unions, and why. Labor unions were invented by Marxists, most of them Jews, who used organized labor for political purposes, e.g. FDR's administration.

Labor unions cause higher prices and a smaller job pool. Why pay a guy $21 per hour to put a nut onto a bolt when Sammy Taiwanese can do it for $3 per hour? See? That is the reasoning of U.S. companies.

In fact, the American steel industry was largely killed by labor unions.

Texas Dissident

2003-11-10 21:08 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Franco]Look at who invented labor unions, and why. [/QUOTE]

Franco, the jews of yesteryear who helped found the labor unions are now the jews in the corporate boardrooms, Wall St. financial centers and the 'thinktanks' supporting same that are making the decision to move your job to Malaysia and/or bring in an Indian to replace you. At this point in the game, it really doesn't matter who invented what. Now mind you, I'm not waving the flag for everyone to go join the local. I'm just saying they're not the real evil right now and could even be a great ally.

jeffersonian

2003-12-01 20:17 | User Profile

[QUOTE] This is not a good thing, in my opinion. If labor was strong, the plutocratic, corporate robber-barons would think twice before outsourcing manufacturing to commie Chinks.[/QUOTE]

Gotta disagree Tex. Labor unions and their demands for ever escalating benefits and wages in a market which cannot sustain it is one of the leading reasons for the massive outsourcing of manufacturing jobs from this country.

Add to this the fact that 99% of all the unions in this country openly support and provide financial succor to liberal causes and the Democratic party makes them my enemy. Hell the AFLCIO supports open borders and amnesty for 13 million illegals, just so they can unionize them.

Yeah the need for unions WAS a fact during the industrial revolution, now they are simply liberal/Neo-Con PAC's.