gimini210's Blog

Probibly help them cross, and all we have are liberals running this election. Bleeding hearts who do not mind spending your money.

When you consider that Nike shoes are mad there, and two other plants have moved there and there are several clothing brands made there all factories from the U.S. It makes it hard to feel sorry for them. There will be even more businesses moving across the boarder due to the lack of workmens comp, unemployement benifits, insurances, taxes and cheaper labor. Even more so if this universial insurance is tagged on to businesses. It just will make more since to go where you make money than stay where the government is running you out of business.

Go to most construction sites you will find illegals, go to Target off 291 and hwy 40 in Independence early in the morning and check out their stockers, check out the truckers from mexico, and go to factories, motels, resturants, take a good look around you and see how many are here. Now ask yourself why we need a secound language in America? We have spanish and english every where. Why? Greeks, Asians, Chinese, Japanese, and all other countries have to learn our language, we don't add theirs to our companies.

I agree totally on everything that has been said. My son was born with A.V.( atrial ventricular ) Canal Defect and just because he does not show any symptoms on the outside, they, (SSI), won't accept him for SSI. My husband works 40+ hrs. a week, but, because he makes so much money, we don't qualify for help. So as for illegal people in this country, yes it tics me off that the American Government welcomes these ilegals with open arms! Every year we are given the choice to pick from a handful of people to lead this country, even if we don't agree with all of any one of the candidates proposals, and every year we vote! I would like to, for once, feel like my vote really mattered.

I have to agree w/redhotz! What has happened to the American worker? So many won't work a job that they think is beneath them or they won't work for less than a certain amount of money. I'll do almost anything to support my family, no matter the job or the pay. I DO NOT THINK IT'S RIGHT, but think of this from a perspective employers point of view! The illegals are eager to work, will do almost anything asked of them, and don't gripe & complain about it!!!!!

gimini, you make a very good point. The ONLY reason illegals are given work here in America is because LEGAL Americans are too lazy to do the work themselves. For example, employers end up paying a LEGAL American $30,000/year and that LEGAL American ends up only doing half as much work as an illegal making $3,000/year would do, and then the LEGAL American worker turns around and tells the boss things like "Oh, I'll work more if you pay me more". I talked to a headhunter not too long ago, and he said the real problem with America's economy is the fact Americans don't want to work to get what they want. They want everything, they want it now, and they don't want to work to get it. He said he had a client who was fresh out of college already $12,000 in credit card debt, had his own Mercedes, and turned down a $40,000/year job as second in command of a farm silo because he wanted to be paid to sit in front of a computer all day playing Solitaire. He then said baby boomers are just as guilty of being lazy...He had one lady who was between jobs - her previous job paid her $100,000 year, and she would not take any job that paid less because it would mean she would have to work harder to support her family.

Actually it is the overhead that sends them out of the country. I personally know that the overhead of a company is getting to the point that it is much wizer to go to Mexico, Indea, and China where there is no workmens comp, unemployement, insurances, and taxes, not to mention cheaper labor. It has nothing to do with who does a better job. I've seen the illegals work on houses. Tiles falling off roofs because they were not nailed on, stucco going every which way but in a pattern, and roofs that leak. So you are wrong there. It is because they do not pay the same things we do. No taxes, no unemployement, and no workers comp. no real over head. So they can work cheaper. Yes some are lazy but the majority are not. Go to AZ and see how hard all mexicans work, it is the same on both sides. You will always have the lazy and the not so lazy. The thing is better the leagal lazy than the illegal lazy, better to put food in the mouths of legals than the tables of some one not even in our country. The goverment does enough of that.

gimini, I honestly think that people should be forced to sign a waiver that says they understand the risks of the job they are applying for and that they agree not to sue the company for injuries related to those risks - this would reduce the number of people on workman's comp. The issue with unemployment is not due to jobs going to illegals...Its caused by a type of supply and demand. For example, there has been an huge increase in the number of college graduates in recent years, but that number has far exceeded the number of available jobs. This leads to ever-increasing unemployment, and the job outsourcing only makes matters worse.

Depending on the field of study, I think people should look for jobs not just in other states, but in other industrialized countries. For example, those majoring in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, or Robotics Engineering may have better luck finding a job over in Japan or China.

By "good-paying job", I mean that the jobs pay well compared to the cost of living of that country or state. For example, here in Kansas City, the average hourly wage is $7.25/hour while the cost of living is $11.25/hour to afford a one-bedroom apartment at fair market value. In other countries, the cost of living is a lot lower but because the jobs are in high demand, the employers often pay more to attract workers.