Ray From Cleveland
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Are you saying illegals are the only people qualified for those jobs?Send them back even if they aren't drunk.
Who will cut your grass and trees, clean your house, wash you in convalescence home or day care, wash your car, produce to your groceries, milk, poultry and meat etc etc etc etc?
The worst part of this is .............. Some of these kids that was left behind by the parents that was deported are now applying welfares. Now you and I are feeding them. I do not have a problem deporting criminals but I have a problem deporting illegals that has not committed any crimes.
California is the most prosperous state in US and the 6th biggest economy of the world. The illegals are big part of that whether you like it or not.
I cut grass when I was younger. It’s how I bought my first dirt bike.
Cutting grass. This is what I think based from my own observations with my employees, friends and other associates that are home owners.
Let say a young couple just bought a home first or second timer buyers at age between 30s to 40s with young kids. New house front/back lawn are not that big anymore. Even old houses. Like in Irvine, Ca old and new houses lawns are very small.
To hire an illegal to cut those size of a lawn cost no more than $10 to $18. a week. Why bother when it’s so cheap?
Kids growing up with those families will never have a lawnmower. Trend will follow. That is why/what I think is happening.
At the same time older home owners will not cut their own grass anymore because it’s very affordable.
In my neighborhood I only see Hispanics cutting grasses.
I cut my own grass. Not only to save money, but because I enjoy it.
After spring cleanup (picking up twigs, pinecones, leaves) nothing makes me happier than jumping on my new lawn tractor to ride around on the property. Afterwards when I'm all hot and sweaty, I grab a beer and gaze upon my work in satisfaction. The only thought on my mind is what I need to do next!
The thing is if you don't want to work on your home, you have no business owning one. I guess that's why the rental market has been so crazy the last ten years; great for me as a landlord, bad for home sales. I mean, if you can't cut your grass, you probably don't want to do anything else like fix a toilet or sink, clean windows, wash your floors, install or replace motion detector lights, replace a doorbell..........
So what if there are no Mexicans to cut your lawn? Cut the damn lawn yourself. Either that or pay Americans to do it for you. That's what we do up north where illegals are few and tighter enforcement takes place.
When it comes to wages and employment, nothing works better than the supply and demand process; that is unless you throw a monkey wrench into the works like unions, minimum wage increases or foreigners. Then wages are artificial and it screws up the entire system.
In my line of work (transportation) the foreigners are killing the industry. Every year some foreigner runs up to my truck and says "Mister, mister, please, back in my trailer, I no no how!" Of course I don't do it, but I have helped them do it themselves.
These people barely speak the language. You see them on the highway swerving across three lanes of traffic because they can't read the highway signs. I suspect they have a GPS in their truck that tells them what to do at last minute. But these people are driving 75,000 lbs trucks right next to your minivan with your family. Not only are they dangerous to Americans on the road, but they keep our pay low because they will work for nothing.
I'm sorry, there is something seriously wrong with this.