There is no job that an American will not do, just an unwillingness of the monied-controlling class to embrace free enterprise. And the reason for this un-American behavior is that most of the rich don't like to share.
In a normal free market economy if you can't get help for a given job, you raise the rate of pay until you find what people are willing to do this job for. You then raise the price of your goods and services to cover your costs.
We don't live in a free market economy. The people at the top artificially inflate their worth and artificially depress the wages of physical labor. Hence the gap grows wider, a record number of luxury homes being built while we experience a record number of foreclosures.
If doctors and lawyers didn't have their professions locked up with monopolistic unions and Americans started turning to their lower priced Mexican counterparts, the borders would be closed by sundown. The reason the borders are so porous is simple greed and/or a disdain for physical labor.
Agriculture is of course the big one. The most essential job on the planet. In order to get an all-American workforce, every sector of agriculture would have to pay more. This would have to force up the price of food, thereby forcing up minimum wages and standards for all the people on the bottom. A very simple equation. It is the artificial depressing of agriculture decade after decade that keeps widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Better to let desperate people sneak in and fill these positions. Immigration raids are extremely rare and mainly for our entertainment, just enough to keep these people from getting any ideas of bettering themselves through protesting and unionizing.
Like it or not, physical labor is as valuable as it ever was. It's just that there is no representation for it in the sea of lawyers and accountants that make up our government. Money versus labor, an age-old battle with the usual outcome. We've had slavery for thousands of years and I don't see it ending anytime soon.
Joe Lonsky
Genoa
We don't live in a free market economy. The people at the top artificially inflate their worth and artificially depress the wages of physical labor. Hence the gap grows wider, a record number of luxury homes being built while we experience a record number of foreclosures.
If doctors and lawyers didn't have their professions locked up with monopolistic unions and Americans started turning to their lower priced Mexican counterparts, the borders would be closed by sundown. The reason the borders are so porous is simple greed and/or a disdain for physical labor.
Agriculture is of course the big one. The most essential job on the planet. In order to get an all-American workforce, every sector of agriculture would have to pay more. This would have to force up the price of food, thereby forcing up minimum wages and standards for all the people on the bottom. A very simple equation. It is the artificial depressing of agriculture decade after decade that keeps widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Better to let desperate people sneak in and fill these positions. Immigration raids are extremely rare and mainly for our entertainment, just enough to keep these people from getting any ideas of bettering themselves through protesting and unionizing.
Like it or not, physical labor is as valuable as it ever was. It's just that there is no representation for it in the sea of lawyers and accountants that make up our government. Money versus labor, an age-old battle with the usual outcome. We've had slavery for thousands of years and I don't see it ending anytime soon.
Joe Lonsky
Genoa
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