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<blockquote data-quote="Mutineer" data-source="post: 3597960" data-attributes="member: 69587">Immigrants aren&#039;t just picking crops and scrubbing toilets anymore!In California, for the past 30 years, immigrants have been displacing citizens from entry level jobs in the construction and trades industries. Upon graduation from high school, those jobs are where alot of citizens USED to go to learn a viable occupation, learn skills, work their way up, and make a decent living. Not anymore!Excessive immigration has turned once respectable blue-collar occupations and crafts into working-poor, dead-end crapjobs.And now we have a generation of citizens who have no occupational skills, and couldn&#039;t hammer a nail straight or saw a board square to save their lives.I was an XG contractor in California for many years. From time to time, I had reason to go through job applications. Alot of green cards are applying for, and working at FedEx Ground. And people scratch their heads and wonder why wages there aren&#039;t much above minimum wage.When the news media outlets spout that there is a shortage of labor, they are lying! And then employers change their tune and say &quot;oops, we meant &#039;qualified&#039; labor.&quot; That&#039;s because employers don&#039;t want to train their workers anymore. They want a workforce that is ignorant, cheap, disposable, and easy to abuse. The ideal candidate? Go ahead, take a guess.Make no mistake. If UPS goes on strike, there will be no shortage of qualified people who will cheerfully take those jobs (in California, at least.) And I, a well qualified occupationally displaced citizen, will be one of them.I&#039;ve said it once, and I&#039;ll say it again: If you are a working class, blue collar citizen of this nation, no matter the origin of prospective immigrants, the borders are your picket line.For better or for worse, (usually worse) what starts in and becomes the norm in California, eventually becomes the norm for the rest of the nation. And idiot, inbred, white-trash rednecks in the mid-west think it will never happen in their Jim-Bob-we, little hick towns.As a fifth generation native of California, I am the Surgeon General&#039;s warning on a pack of cigarettes. I am the caricature of the disembodied fingers warning sticker on the side of your lawnmower. I am that dusty, forgotten old box of metal tipped lawn-darts from the 70&#039;s lurking in an attic. I am the canary in the mine shaft. And I&#039;m telling you not to believe any so-called &quot;shortage of labor we need more immigrants to pick our crops&quot; nonsense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mutineer, post: 3597960, member: 69587"] Immigrants aren't just picking crops and scrubbing toilets anymore! In California, for the past 30 years, immigrants have been displacing citizens from entry level jobs in the construction and trades industries. Upon graduation from high school, those jobs are where alot of citizens USED to go to learn a viable occupation, learn skills, work their way up, and make a decent living. Not anymore! Excessive immigration has turned once respectable blue-collar occupations and crafts into working-poor, dead-end crapjobs. And now we have a generation of citizens who have no occupational skills, and couldn't hammer a nail straight or saw a board square to save their lives. I was an XG contractor in California for many years. From time to time, I had reason to go through job applications. Alot of green cards are applying for, and working at FedEx Ground. And people scratch their heads and wonder why wages there aren't much above minimum wage. When the news media outlets spout that there is a shortage of labor, they are lying! And then employers change their tune and say "oops, we meant 'qualified' labor." That's because employers don't want to train their workers anymore. They want a workforce that is ignorant, cheap, disposable, and easy to abuse. The ideal candidate? Go ahead, take a guess. Make no mistake. If UPS goes on strike, there will be no shortage of qualified people who will cheerfully take those jobs (in California, at least.) And I, a well qualified occupationally displaced citizen, will be one of them. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: If you are a working class, blue collar citizen of this nation, no matter the origin of prospective immigrants, the borders are your picket line. For better or for worse, (usually worse) what starts in and becomes the norm in California, eventually becomes the norm for the rest of the nation. And idiot, inbred, white-trash rednecks in the mid-west think it will never happen in their Jim-Bob-we, little hick towns. As a fifth generation native of California, I am the Surgeon General's warning on a pack of cigarettes. I am the caricature of the disembodied fingers warning sticker on the side of your lawnmower. I am that dusty, forgotten old box of metal tipped lawn-darts from the 70's lurking in an attic. I am the canary in the mine shaft. And I'm telling you not to believe any so-called "shortage of labor we need more immigrants to pick our crops" nonsense. [/QUOTE]

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