I just did work at several construction job sites in Arizona and Texas, and it dawned on me that it is ODD, not that the vast bulk of workers were Hispanic, but that most of them did not speak English. Are they illegal? If so, why are they working? Are they citizens? If so, why the hell don’t they speak English? And if they have Green Cards, why? We are not suffering from a labor shortage. On the contrary, we are suffering the longest period of high unemployment that has afflicted this nation since the LAST time we handed the government over to socialists during the Depression they made Great.
Australia has very high relative labor wages, and I don’t doubt that a big part of it is due to a relative imbalance in favor of workers. They have few people relative to the work they have to do. This drives wages up. What we have in America is the opposite.
One electrician I talked with left Austin because there were Hispanics–again, folks that don’t speak English–who were willing to work as journeyman electricians for what most native-born Americans get as apprentices ($15/hour in this case).
How is the on-going effort by the Democrats to make this situation permanent not a patent abrogation of ANY sense of responsibility to the “working man”? OF COURSE it is a betrayal. The current crop of Democrats fundamentally hates America, and this includes American workers, particularly white American workers.
There was a time when a sober person could believe that the Democrats were looking out for the little guy. That time has long passed.