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Pat-rebel_lady -> RE: Obama's comments about small-town America (4/16/2008 4:14:40 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rainbowtvp
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ORIGINAL: Pat-rebel_lady
He's out of touch; last time I looked Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Detroit, and many others, where the jobs have been gone now for 25 years; are Cities. Does he not even know the difference between Cities and small towns? Yes, small towns have lost a lot of jobs too, but to point fingers at small towns as being the ones who are "bitter" and "cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --- he's just plain out of touch.
The difference is that in the cities where the steel mills left, new jobs sprung up... in the small towns surrounding those cities (like where I am from) the steel mills left and are still sitting there... empty... with no new jobs coming into the area to speak of.
There are jobs if you have a degree and are willing to drive into the city. .....
True, but you would find in the cities there are jobs if you have a degree, if can speak two or more languages, and, if you can find one:
Blue Collar Workers Hurt by Failure to Curb Illegal Immigration
An article in New Jersey’s Star Ledger addresses a major issue where illegal aliens are concerned: the practice of hiring illegal aliens willing to do the work Americans should be doing but are unable to do because the illegal alien workforce is willing to accept substandard wages, no benefits, and often dangerous conditions that in and of themselves are illegal.
…… Blue Collar Americans, the backbone of this nation, are getting clobbered by the hiring practices of unprincipled employers who know that they have virtually nothing to fear where the hiring of illegal aliens is concerned. When President Bush declares that "illegal aliens do the work Americans aren't doing," he conveniently leaves out the other half of that statement – that they cannot afford to take those jobs any longer because the wages have been slashed.
How many homeowners are paying hefty fees for jobs that are substandard at best? Day laborers do not have the skill or experience of tradesmen. It is not even a contest where quality of work is concerned. The greedy employers get to pocket lots of extra money, their customers get substandard work, and American workers are losing their jobs and their ability to provide for their families.
…. Americans do back-breaking, dirty and dangerous jobs each and every day. Americans will still do any job provided that their paychecks can support them and their families. Americans are not lazy or soft. The politicians who exhibit such contempt for those hard working Americans should hang their heads in shame. And, any politicians who refuse to support the American worker should be in need of new jobs themselves!
Yet there is another issue that needs to be addressed, and that is the way unions have made some really terrible decisions where illegal immigration is concerned. When labor unions allow illegal aliens to join the unions and then lobby the legislatures on behalf of those illegal aliens, they encourage more illegal immigration and undercut their long-time members.
But the problem is much more complicated than just a loss of jobs.
The illegal aliens who work in our country not only displace American workers, but send money out of the country, enriching the economies of their native countries while doing serious harm to ours. Last year an estimated 45 billion dollars was wired from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean. Many billions more were wired to other countries around the world. Additionally, money was smuggled out of the United States by illegal aliens.
The issue of illegal immigration is not a conservative or liberal Issue: illegal immigration is an American issue that should be of great concern to all Americans irrespective of political party affiliation.
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