The president has angered his base by soliciting temporary foreign workers in an effort to stabilize the economy.
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"It is easing requirements for immigrants to get jobs as farm workers,
landscapers and crab pickers, aware that industries, including those that fill grocery store shelves, could be hurt if they couldn’t hire foreign employees."
We need those farm workers, etc because that in it's own way is specialized work. They have methods and teamwork that get the crop out of the field. If you've ever seen them in action harvesting watermelons, you'll know what I mean. New landscaping jobs (they have most of those jobs around here already-see them in the trucks all the time) though? Have Americans lost the ability to run a lawn tractor, a weed eater, an edger, or a leaf blower? I think not. Would Americans be as easy to exploit on their labor as the immigrants? I think not. So it's really what it's always been about: employers shafting Americans to exploit cheaper immigrant labor. New boss, old boss, same boss.
It's long overdue that the Golden Rule be abolished. As in: he who has the gold makes the rules. You should be able to FAIRLY make all the money you want, but there should be a limit on just what exactly can be bought with it. Every financial high crime on recent memory started with one thing: deregulation. The robber-barons use a frontman politician to slash the rules, then they go on a now legalized stealing spree using a ponzi scheme and call it "the economy." Everybody in the game collects their huge bonuses and jumps out using their golden parachutes while leaving the taxpayer with no parachute because the stock,pension, and 401k accounts are on fire, holding the controls of a burning and crashing plane that they now also have to pay for. Insult to injury. And now you know why I've said what I've said for years: "This world only makes perfect sense once you come to the realization that criminals now control and run everything."
"And until facing criticism this week, it had been moving ahead with a 35,000-person increase in the number of seasonal workers in part for expected job openings at
resorts and golf courses after the pandemic releases its grip on the economy."
Because I'm sure the average American is sitting around worrying about the future state of the resorts and golf courses at this critical time in Earth's history. I'm sure that's all they can think about. But hey, see: landscapers.
"Business leaders say that even during the coronavirus crisis, foreign workers are critical to
companies that might be unable to find enough unemployed Americans willing to take certain jobs, especially if those people can collect more money via jobless benefits."
They're already manufacturing the excuses for not hiring you...
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