One of the top resons people give for allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the USA is that they will work the jobs that Americans do not want to work. That may be true in a booming economy, but as it stands right now, Americans need the jobs that they shunned in the past. More and more people are finding it neccesary to find work at minimum wage. Employers who do not want to pay minimum wage give jobs to illegals who will actually work for less. In my honest opinion, employers who do not adhere to the minimum wage laws are just as guilty, and maybe even more-so, than the people crossing the border to take these jobs. Those employers should be held accountable.
I live in the north central part of the good old USA. Here, we do not have an overabundance of illegal immigrants to take these lower paying jobs such as hotel maids, laundry workers, amusement park personnel, etc. These jobs are for the most part filled by legal Americans of all races and nationalities who need work. It also supplies jobs for teenagers and young people wo are newly graduated and need to have some kind of employment to get started or work their way through college. People will take these jobs at minimum wage AND pay taxes in doing so. We do not need illegals here to do these jobs. I, myself, worked sevral minimum wage jobs (many at the same time) before I finally found my life's career at the age of twenty eight.
On another note, I have in my own mind concluded that today's unions are doing more harm to our economy than good. The big unions are sucking our economy dry and chasing away businesses that could be employing Americans. They have bargained Americans right out of jobs by pricing the workforce so out of reach of many companies that they have no other recourse but to move their compnies overseas. Don't people realize that the higher the wages and benfits, the higher the prices that have to be charged for goods and services? So you get the hourly wage increase and better benefit package. Fine, but you are going to be spending it all on higher priced cars, groceries, and services. The only people who benefit are the unions who are paid by YOU to bargain for all this smoke and mirrors. The big union heads bask in their riches and watch as you think you are moving up the ladder of wealth only to be paying even more to exist than the lower wages you had in the beginning. Think about it. And of course, the big unions are funding your government representatives with their lobby to pass all the laws and regulations THEY want.
Just my thoughts and opinions on this day, May 22, 2010.
Marian
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