Rightwingpatriot.com ^ | March 14, 2014 |
Rightwingerpatriot
As anyone with an ounce of sense in their noggin knows that the current
unemployment situation in America is quite bleak.
People are desperate for jobs.
Companies are not hiring and are cutting back on hours. In fact, there are over
fifty million Americans of working age who are officially unemployed or not
working. With all this collective economic misery, we're being bombarded with
utter nonsense that there's a labor shortage in the country and that we need
higher immigration to fix the problem. Americans are out of work and the far
left (and Big Business) wants to import foreign workers and turn a blind eye to
the illegal immigration chaos? Sheer madness.
The myth of there being a labor shortage is just that, a myth. In a study
done by the Center of Immigration Studies, it was found that employment of
American workers has been in decline since 2000. In that year, there were 35.8
million Americans who were not working and were between 18 to 65 years old. That
number jumped to 40.5 million in 2006 and now stands at 50.5 million in 2013. I
would not consider 50.5 million unemployed Americans as a "labor shortage."
Still, we get groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and tycoons such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg agitating for more foreign workers. We know the real
reason is that they want cheap labor that they can exploit and not pay actual
decent wages to Americans.
We have RINOs such as Carlos Gutierrez, former Commerce Secretary under
George W. Bush, telling us that we need more immigration because businesses
can't find and hire employees. Gutierrez laments that the Senate "Gang of Eight"
immigration bill is still inadequate because it only has a quota for bringing in
112,000 agricultural workers when he says that agriculture needs upwards of a
million workers. Gutierrez has also opined that we need more foreign
construction workers as the Senate bill has a quota of 15,000 workers, but he
says that those workers would be used up in just the city of Miami alone. The
facts say otherwise as unemployment for construction workers is at 12.8 percent!
I have friends who work in construction and it's brutal. Most of them cannot
find a job as contractors hire illegal aliens for half the pay of a normal
American worker.
Yet if you point out these inconvenient things called facts, you're labeled a
racist and a bigot. Laura Ingraham got into a heated debate with Representative
Renee Ellmers (R-NC) over immigration. Ellmers was elected on a Tea Party
platform but immediately pivoted to big government once she got to Washington.
Ellmers trotted out the lie of the labor shortage, and when she was confronted
with facts, immediately began to label Laura Ingraham as "small minded" and
"ignorant." After she got schooled by Ingraham, Ellmers begged a pro-amnesty
group to back her up and asked them to flood the phone lines and tweets of
Ingraham's show.
Don't expect these jobs numbers to get any better soon. With Obama's policies
crippling our economy, things will continue to either limp along or deteriorate.
The flood of illegal immigrants is especially damaging to those with lower
levels of education as unskilled jobs are snapped up away from them. Obama has
stepped up his amnesty game by creating a policy that extends legal status and
military benefits to illegal immigrants who are related to active-duty military
members and veterans. The usual modus operandi is in place where the Obama
administration will trot out the most hard-luck cases to tug at your
heartstrings.
There is one bit of employment good news. It appears that the unemployment
rate for illegal aliens is lower than some other groups. Isn't that grand?
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