If they are starving and homeless there are plenty of empty beds at the BPS detention centers. All they have to do is tell the truth. They will be fed and housed and given free medical care . . . and sent back.
It would be a real shame to lie about them, and hire them for the purpose of destroying honest American employers. It would also be a shame because doing so would destroy American jobs. Yup it’s bad for American workers and bad for American employers.
These are all (most) college educated people. Do you suppose there are reasons there’s never been a push by these people to unionize? If it is such a no-brainer then what’s the hold up?
I wish I could give you the most recent count.
There have been a LOT of downward revisions.
The consistently-downward revisions have been the talk of the right-wing internet and a few right-wing TV hosts for over a year. The Gov’t (specifically the Fed) is finally taking our claims seriously.
The last count I have is from Aug 2nd. It contains a mix of
(older) data, already-revised &
(newer) data, not-yet-revised.
I posted it at the top of this thread but here it is again for everyone’s convenience.
I had not intended to change the topic back to foreign-born vs native born. My point was simply that the people the government is supposed to be helping lost 1.2 million jobs . . . . that’s not much help now is it?
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Let me tell ya a true story that forever shaped the way I look at things in life:
Decades ago I was a high school student living on/near my grandparents’ farm about an hour outside of Penn State. I had a keen interest in Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clark and anything relating to out space or nuclear physics. (I was a nerd in farm country.)
The local paper had a story that the local Congressman had secured a government grant to build an expensive ($10million??) nuclear research laboratory at Penn State. Wow!! “That’s gonna bring a lot of jobs and build the local economy,” was the gist of the article.
Couple years later the facility was complete. It was built by out-of-state labor (A southern contractor outbid all the local guys and brought his own crew,) and today the PhD’s who work there are all imported from places like China, and India and Pakistan.
In fairness, a family friend did become one of the buildings’ five janitors and, my step sister who worked at Fashion Bug or some such place in the local mall, noticed a small uptick in Asian-looking customers.
That was it. That was the huge economic impact that the $10 million grant and the $10 million building had on local jobs and the local economy.
I am not sure what I was expecting. I am not sure I have the right to be disappointed. But certainly it is true that “taxpayers spent $10 million to create good jobs here,” does not always mean what one thinks it means.
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Anyway, how’s the economy? Well, the locals lost 1.2 million jobs last year and when all the revisions are in, the number might be closer to 2.2 million. That is how the economy is.
Thank you. This is actually close to a scenario I’d imagined as to why you focused on the things you focus on. It makes so much sense as to why you are the kind of poster you are. It makes so much sense. Thank you.
