drywalldog wrote:Sorry HD, I think it is more along the lines that they dont want to pay a living wage to the American worker, if illegals went home, you would pay more to get your grass cut, your house built, your roads paved. We are already seeing this in my area.
I think this is a partial myth, Drywall, generated in part by the cocktail set & early retirement fat asses sitting in lawn chairs by their mailboxes waiting for their guaranteed green checks to arrive. Americans are lazy. Americans will not do certain jobs. Americans are cheap (more likely broke) and will not pay for higher priced yet probably better made American products, yada, yada, yada.
Americans will do whatever it takes to feed, clothe, and shelter their families. We stand in lines for hours on end at job fairs for a limited number of entry level jobs. We are replaced by outsourcing or by import skilled labor that works for nothing and is used to ****ting in buckets at home. Unfortunately, some of the social programs have been abused and made us more dependent but all in all Americans fend for themselves.
I paid my employees more much more than the minimum wage to start. Now, out of duress many of us can't do that any more. I think that the market will sustain itself & only pay for what it can afford. IMHO, if illegals are ever replaced by higher- paid Americans, prices/costs may bump up slightly only to naturally come down again eventually. Either that or we will be doing so well again (a la the 80's & 90's) that we won't care about minimal cost increases anyway.