@myfrugalboutique wrote:
Wow! Hit the nail on the head. Like here in Arizona, you won’t find a Gringo working on roofs in this 110 degree weather, but our immigrants are very hard workers and they will and are paid well.
Well I'm sure I hit the nail, there's many nails LOL!
The trades I was already aware of, we're loosing more tradesman and women than folks opting into the trades and many of them are 100,000 a year plus jobs. Electricians, plumbers, masonry on and on to the point no major construction firm or project has enough skilled trades folks to do the jobs. Weeks back on News Nation (actually balanced news, very high on the non-fake news/spin ladder) they'd a fella on who runs a not for profit training folks in the trades, guess what? Most the students are from South America as again, young American's dont want do that work and these are jobs that pay better than many many others.
I also received a personal lesson, week back we went to camp and I noticed my ladies front tires needed replacement, like now! We call Walmart, nope, 10 days, we call Monroe, nope, longer yet, Midas, nope 8 days. I call Mr. Tire and the manager is a lady and I express the urgency right? She tell's me every single place is short labor BUT she says, "Bring it on in... She'll do the work under a mechanics supervision."
So, there's the car jacked up in the parking lot getting the tires done and this lady knows her stuff about cars! We're talking and she proceeds to tell me that her dad owned a garage, uncle owned a garage, boyfriends a mechanic and that the lack of qualified mechanics are WHY the cost of car repairs have shot through the roof!
Back at camp come Saturday people gather at our site for music, cocktails and fun. I'm telling the story to fella down there along his brother and wife. Welp, he's a machinist, makes gears for auto industry and farm equipment working 12 hour days because? They can't get labor, they're turning away work, he told me the cost of the gears the company makes have skyrocketed due to lack of labor. His brother's wife, a nurse, welp they're way short to and she told me its just crazy, she wants to quit and said it's that way across the country. Her husband, manager at an auto parts store, major chain store... Tell's me the supply chain is busted and not due to China or anything else, lack of workers... Told me they are buying cheaper parts from China versus quality ones from the US and Canada because again... Lack of production, workers.
Now the program saw other night, FASCINATING view of American immigration past/present including why's and wherefores. After World War One there was a huge influx of migration to the USA and the white's of Western European descent here weren't all to jazzed about that. So government commissioned studies on eugenics and using said skewed studies stopped TONS of immigration, that's when Italians and then some in America were considered well... We won't go there. Anyways, turns out Hitler was a big fan of those studies and that's actually where "The Master Race" and all that followed in using such things about other inferiority came to pass in World War II. I was shocked!
Here's some more data, more US Citizens are dying than new births keeping up with it and that's before Covid. Women or families are not wanting have the children as much as they once did apparently and it's getting to be of great concern and goes three ways, history of mankind.
1. Women start having more children, like lots and lots of em'.
2. We start bringing in immigrants, lots and lots of em'.
or
3. The nation will fall into decline generationally as its impossible to maintain the lifestyle/wealth without population stability/growth.
Another interesting facet was immigration policy come the 1960's when the latter (1920's) went bye bye. Everyone expected Europeans to flock here but they didn't. They didn't because "White Male America" was treating minorities so poorly up to and including women! Instead, influx from South America and interestingly if it were not for that influx, our economy and military would have went down the tubes back in the 70's and 80's.
Latino's now represent 19% thereabouts of Americans as citizens. They spoke to that, a problem for white males mainly, by 2040 at current birthing rates the White American becomes the minority. Ah hah! There it is!
Now why are so many S. Americans at our border?
First, many nations were ravaged by Covid as were their economies AND by weather. Lot of these folks are skilled workers, they had jobs, they're home's and economies were ravaged. Then there is Venezuela, a nation in upheaval. Now here's the really really scary part, America is on similar path but there is hope. Young folks who inherit the land, they are coming out in droves like never before putting forth candidates and voting, 50% of all American able youth are now voting.
