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that 4.5% is only the folks who can still collect a unemployment check, now think about how many cannot collect a unemployment check because the benifits ran out, that sure puts that little number alot higher. the county i come from (St.Clair County) is standing at 23% and to top it all off, i got news from family and friends from my home town that they are going to build some new condos, get this, they are contracting the job to canadans, not the 23%+ who live in that county to do the job.
Point taken, but that has always been a factor, so it doesnt affect unemployment now anymore than it did 5,10,20 years ago. I need to say this again. If I lived in a town with 23% unemployment I would move.
as far as leaving, well thats fine and all but one needs money to get to where they want to go. not to mention, who is to say that there will be work available when one packs it up, and that is a big thing to consider when you are traveling with your kids. the point is, it is not as easy is one may think. and the same is true for immagrants legal or not.
I understand it is not easy, and I mean no disrespect, but the right to an easy life is not in our constitution.
it is a dog gone shame what some of these people have to go through to earn a buck. the mafia type organizations that give illegals money and means to get here are downright apalling because of the outragous intrest fees attached with this money. this turns many a illegal worker into a straight up slave who ends up working to pay off a debt that in most cases will never be paid off. and this my friend is the reality of the tomato that you bought at the grocery store
It is a shame organized crime has gotten into shippping illegals. We could seriously curb that problem if we sealed the borders.
these people are not comming here to become an amreican, they are comming here to earn some money to feed thier families
That is the problem. Assimilation is key for a nation to stay strong. look at the problems France is having with the muslim immigrants in their country.
over the world they are told that we here in america are rich beyond belief and when they get here, they see for themselves that this is not the reality and that it is hard to find work. if this were an ideal world, they would stay home, but unfortunetly, there is no work available for them at home. why don't you come up with a solution to this problem if your so concerned about illegal workers, cause lets face it, if they had work in thier homelands, they would not pour into this country by the thousands now would they.
We have no obligation to bail mexico out. Their extremely corrupt government would actually be a good place to start. BTW I believe in the political section there are otherthreads about illegal aliens, and I discuss in detail how I would fix the problem. Although a solution thread would be interesting if you would like to start one.
then we can better close our borders, but wait, the crops still need to be tended to, and we still need sweat shops to operate so you can wear that new desginer shirt, and we still need cows to be slaughtered so you can have that nice juicy steak to eat for dinner. hey, we still need bathrooms to be cleaned too. wonder how many americans are going to be doing jobs like this when they think its benith them .
Im perfectly willing to accept the inflation that will follow as a result. Actually it would probably be a good thing because then maybe our government would stop spending ouselves bankrupt, get the debt undeer control and normalize the value of the dollar.
some of these jobs don't even pay minnium wage.
They would now.
Of course Im no fan of the mandatory wage either.
the point is, that this is not as cut and dry as you may think. this is an issue that affects the entire globe and all the poor people in it.
Our politicians are mandated to serve American citizens, not the rest of the world. Besides, as long as we keep subsidizing the Mexican government, they have no reason to change how they do things.
the poor suckers who got the outsourced jobs from G.M. in mexico earn less than a dollar a day doing the same job that we were earning $10 to $15 an hour for. hows that supose to feed a family, put a kid through school? heck, they don't even have social assistance programs to fall back on.
Not my government's problem.
if you think education is the way to go than you had better think again. we shall use ethopia as the example here. in the ruarl areas the kids whose families are able to scrape up enough money for school are being taught a language that the local people do not speak. this language by the way is not even spoken in the major citites either. so how well of an education are these kids getting when they are not even taught the language they will need for a job?
Some of the richest people in america are HS dropouts.
figure out a solution to these two issues and you can severly curve the illegal and legal immagration into america. figure out a way for these fat cats to come up off of some of their money and invest it into places it needs to be invested into than we will be half way there to solving this problem
The problem isnt the investors, its the lack of good potential for investment. That is caused by over regulatory,over unionized, unrealistic , over taxing cities and states. That is why
your town has 23% unemployment.
