Originally Posted by 45_100
Originally Posted by Blackheart
We surely need it. Without Mexicans and Guatemalans we'd all starve or have to raise our own food cuz Americans plain won't do that kinda work no more.


And why is that? Americans used to do that kind of work. What has changed?


1) All the foreign labor has driven/kept the wage rate so low for that work, that Americans won’t do it..

and

2) The availability of “social services” (free healthcare, free food, free housing) has made it so people don’t have to work to survive, so they DON’T..

And “contractor” employers would rather hire a somewhat skilled illegal than a know-nothing teenager, so teens aren’t even working, now.

You take 2-3 generations of this behavior (it gets passed down to children), and whaddaya get???