Day: December 16, 2013

But They Are Stealing Our Jobs!

How many times have you heard that tired old talking point?

If you truly believe that then …how many of you want to pick lettuce or harvest apples or…….well you get the point……back during Katrina my company hired 10 people for debris removal paying $10 an hour……at the end of a week we had 4 people left…all Hispanic…the Americans could lower themselves to pick up debris…….

But are they stealing jobs?

(Newser) – Odilia Chavez, a 40-year-old undocumented migrant farm worker based in California, is the first person to tell her story in a new Modern Farmer “Farm Confessional” feature, and she has a message for anyone who thinks people like her are stealing American jobs: “We’re not taking their jobs. In the 14 years I’ve been here, I’ve never seen an American working in the fields. I’ve never seen anyone work like Mexicans,” she writes. “Agriculture is dependent on undocumented workers. We need the money from the farmers, and the farmers need our hands.”

She tells her story and describes the low pay and difficult conditions that leave her exhausted by 9pm and awake again by 3am. Even so, she says, she would keep her job even if immigration reform passed. She’d be able to get a driver’s license and social security card and see her mom in Mexico for the first time since 2008, but in terms of a job, she and a lot of her fellow workers don’t know how to do anything else, don’t know how to use a computer, and never got far in school. “We can’t get a better job. They were farmworkers in Mexico and we’re going to die as farmworkers.” Her full column is worth a read.

As far as I have seen…they are not stealing jobs….but rather accepting jobs that Americans find demeaning and boring…….

Have yet to see an American in the crowd of day laborers at 5 am in the parking lot of a building supply company…….Americans want to be the CEO not the laborer…….

What Happened To Immigration?

Now that the most worthless among us, the Congress, is out on paid vacation…..I would like to cover some of the things that may be important in 2014, the issues that is……this week I will focus on the headlines that may appear after the next Congress comes back in January…..

Today’s posts is on a subject that I think may play a major roll in the mid term elections…..Immigration.

At the beginning of 2013 I thought that the major issue, or at least one of them, would be immigration.  It seemed to me then that both parties had a vested interest in some sort of immigration reform….the GOP because their support in the Latino community sucked, the only way to describe it……and the Dems because they were also looking to sure up their base for the coming elections in 2016.

Boy was I mistaken!  It seemed that things were progressing very well and then that moron Ted Cruz started running his lying mouth and Rubio hid behind the skirts of the GOP and slowly but slowly immigration was replaced by the shutdown and later the Obamacare debacle……all of which sucked the air out of the sails of immigration reform.

Republican have indicated they won’t take up immigration reform this year, dimming hopes that Congress will address the issue before the Senate-passed bill dies at the end of the legislative session in early 2015.

But what of immigration?

(Newser) – Republicans in Congress might still be smarting over the fallout from the shutdown, but the New York Times reports that another potential “schism” for the party is right around the corner—immigration reform. Conservatives vow to block any legislation from passing the House, while John Boehner and others support the idea of getting at least piecemeal measures through. Things might come to a head next week when a wide range of groups—from the US Chamber of Commerce to FWD.us, the group set up by Mark Zuckerberg and tech leaders—descends on Capitol Hill to pressure GOP lawmakers to get something done.

That doesn’t look likely anytime soon, however. Fewer than 20 legislative days are left this year, Politico notes, and next year is dicey because it’s an election year. Further complicating things is that some Democrats are not agitating for a vote because they see political benefit in the issue, reports Bloomberg. As the leader of ImmigrationWorks USA puts it, “There are some Democrats who would rather get it done, and others who would rather have the issue” linger. “Either way they win.” (The Senate passed its reform bill in June, with a 13-year pathway to citizenship for current immigrants a central part of it.)

What GOP leadership is obscuring is that the calendar is even less kind to taking on a complex issue like immigration reform in 2014. The deadline to keep the government funded or face another shutdown is Jan. 15. Then in February or March, Congress will have to raise the debt limit again or risk default. These budget battles could be bruising for the GOP. Then comes primary season in May, when Republicans will be polishing their conservative credentials for GOP voters, who resent any form of “amnesty” for people in the U.S. illegally. On Jan. 4, 2015, the new Congress begins and the bipartisan Senate bill becomes defunct.

Is that the sound of a can rolling down some bureaucratic road?

Of course it is!  That is what the part time douches do…….sad part is that it is the voters fault…they voted these half wits into office.