Quote:They do low skill jobs most native born citizens feel they are above. Their numbers are declining, in part to an improved economy in Mexico. The American economy is gonna be saved because we have OUR people doing migrant farming, hanging drywall and serving as maids?


We need to import external talent for the types of jobs Americans really want because we don't have enough home grown talent to do the jobs that pay wages families can live off of. Very few young people pick up a trade if they don't go to school. And very few of the students we have graduate with the skills we need to pave the way for our future.


I'm all for investing in America. Teaching our existing workforce skills that can be utilized now. Training our youth today in skills that will help us all tomorrow.


The majority of the jobs illegal immigrants satisfy are jobs most Americans don't want and can't survive on.

Your post is the poster for entitlement mentality. People that feel that they are above doing work, no matter what it is, are the problem. Right now, they do nothing. They live off of the government. Guess where the government gets the money to fund these dead beats? Yep, the remaining working people. They work more and get less.

 

Here's a little secret. If people have to hang drywall, farm, or work as a maid in order to eat and have a roof over their head, eventually they will. I have a step-son living in a truck with his dad because he thinks that kind of work is below him. I gave him a home and fed him for a year and a half and all he did was play x-box and watch tv. We told him that Speedway was hiring and his response was, "Working in a place like that will suck your soul out of you."  Needless to say, he never looked for a job. Never took any initiative. He left here and sponged off of his sister who needed a babysitter. Did that for almost a year and did the same there. His dad moved in there also after a couple months. Both living off of a young woman with 2 children with a part time job at UPS. They burned their bridge with her and got the boot last week. Yesterday, he came here begging for a place to stay. We told him to get a job and then come back and we would talk.

 

Welcome to the story of modern America and liberal entitlement. It eventually bites you right in the [BAD WORD REMOVED].

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