So Trump is stopping traditional immigration but still allowing migrant workers?
So much for protecting American jobs eh?
I'm all for massively slowing down all immigration but the talking point about protecting jobs pretty much falls flat on my ears.
Why?
(i'm in favor of banning or greatly reducing both)
Because 22 million people are unemployed. Picking fruit might not be glamorous but it would help pay the bills.
IMHO, most American workers aren't physically fit enough for field world. I worked picking fruit and vegetables in Florida many years ago. It's backbreaking work. Also, most of the work is miles away cities and towns which makes transportation a problem. You may find work close by but it never lasts very long, a few days or few weeks at most and then you have to travel to find more work. If you arrive too early you have to wait. If you arrive too late, you're out luck. Most people would make more money off their unemployment.
No one is asking educated people to make a career of picking lettuce
but we have enough chronic poor on welfare who are not qualified for anything other than stoop labor to fill our needs
I think you would be surprised at how many of these people wouldn't last more than a few hours. Most of the chronic poor in this country are either working in low paid part time or temp jobs, elderly, children, physically or mentally disable, addicted to alcohol or drugs, ect. The idea that there are always job that anyone can qualify for is just bull shit. No employer wants employees that can't or won't do the work. There are qualifications for every job today.
I think most welfare bums are capable of working if they get hungry enough
I was a part owner in a wholesaling business and we needed a few people for loading and unloading trucks, simple packing and unpacking, etc, no skills required. My business partner was approached by a social worker who was looking for jobs for the homeless and he agreed to hire 3 of them. None of the 3 stayed more than a week. On the first day, one of them was loading a truck and he just decide to leave carrying off a box of tools. I ran after him to stop him and ask what he's doing. He look at me with a vacant stair, said, "I don't know", put the box down and walked off and I never saw him again. The other two just forget to come to work. The social worker said, sometimes they can't remember to go to work or they forget they have a job. Would you honestly hire people like this. I'm certainly not saying everyone on the streets is like this but most of the chronically poor and unemployed have serious problems that will become an employers problem if they are hired.
I know you guys on the right believe in personal responsibility and the work ethic as do I, but there is a significant part of the population that just can't hold down any job and nobody knowingly is going to hire them. If they do, they'll will wish they hadn't.
