Look at the Unemployment rate before November 2008.
Full employment.
Illegals aren't stealing jobs, idiots. Bush stole them.
You know, this protectionist bullshit talk from the Right about illegals taking the shitty roofing and lettuce picking jobs is no different than the protectionist bullshit talk from the Left about China taking the shitting automotive tire manufacturing jobs.
If people are unemployed because the only job they are capable of doing is roofing a house, how the **** is that an immigrant's fault? HUH?
That's OUR fault for not training our workforce to do 21st century jobs.
Sometimes I'm tempted to turn on my rep again. This post tempts me again.
In Tucson, behind a roofing tar truck on a summer afternoon ... the truck pulls the tar container, looks a bit like a cement mixer, stinks of hot black tar and you can see heat waves rising off of it. In the bed of the truck are the workers - yep, poor Mexicans and very possibly illegal. But, not always. Its a shitty job that no spoiled and lazy American will do. Sitting in that hot truck bed, the temp is well over 100 degrees and much hotter in the truck. Hotter than that on the roof too.
Before I moved out of town - one day, an old car pulled up in front of my house. An older Mexican man came to my door and, waving his hand to encompass my yard said, "$5 an hour". Except, it came out as one word, "fi-dol-r-our". I said yes and the car exploded with the rest of his family.
He expected $5 an hour, period. I paid $5 a man hour because that was what was fair. So, for his family's hard work, they were paid more like $20 dollars an hour. In the 110 degree heat, it was well worth it for me. I took a big jug of homemade lemonade out for them.
I gave him my electric mower and a 50 foot cord because I never used the mower and what good was the mower without the cord?
Thing is, they're just people and they're just doing the same thing all of us are doing. They're just trying to feed their family and they're willing to work their butts off to do it.
People hate them but really, these people, our fellow human beings, do us no harm. They pay huge taxes but get nothing in return. They get free health care because of Reagan's socialist EMTALA that the rw's say they want to keep. And, they do work that no American would even consider.