Did any one asked the unemployed Americans which jobs they do not want?
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Yeah, they went into all the bars and offered them the position of US President if they cleaned up their act. \nOnly one guy took them up on the offer ; )
514522
Go to a different country we have enough problems of our own finding jobs! In Fact we are all unemployed
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Yea (To The ASKER) I Hate IGNORANCE Too\n\nThis Part Of My Answer Goes Out To BRAD_J(Above)\n\nthere are jobs Americans simply won't do, so that the importation of foreigners is essential. Whether these foreign workers are ILLEGAL ALIENS,  guestworkers, or permanent Legal Immigrants is a detail to be worked out by us, the argument goes, but our need for them is unchanged.Even many opponents of the proposed Bush Amnesty assume this to be true, leading them to propose new and improved guestworker programs, with provisions for stricter controls against Permanent Settlement, greater incentives to return, tighter enforcement against Unscrupulous Employers, etc. As well-meaning as such efforts may be, the basic assumption is false — \n\nIf Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO of any business that was caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - NO EXCEPTIONS - then within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States. The US unemployment rate would drop close to zero, and wages would begin to rise. The American middle class would begin to return to viability, as would the union movement in this nation.\n\nThere is simply no economic reason to import FOREIGN Workers.If the supply of FOREIGN Workers were to dry up (say, through actually ENFORCING the immigration law, for starters), employers would respond to this new, tighter, labor market in two ways. \n\n1: One, they would offer HIGHER Wages, INCREASED Benefits, and Improved Working Conditions, so as to recruit and retain people from the remaining pool of workers.\n\n2:At the same time, the same employers would look for ways to eliminate some of the jobs they now are having trouble filling. The result would be a NEW Equilibrium, with Blue-Collar Workers making somewhat Better Money, but each one of those workers being more productive.\n\nMany people fear the first part of such a response, claiming that prices for fruits and vegetables would skyrocket, fueling inflation..NOT TRUE..Labor accounts for only about ten percent of the retail price of a head of lettuce,  so even doubling the wages of pickers would have little noticeable effect on consumers.\n\nSeveral people told me they used to do the "jobs Americans won't do" until local employers figured out they could get ILLEGAL Aliens to work for less than half the same amount. As an example, a young landscaper who used to make $15 an hour 10 years ago, can't get a similar job now for more than $8 an hour. Same heat. Same difficult working conditions.  But with the Depressed Wage, AMERICANS – who live in a country where the cost of living is miles above that of Mexico's – can't afford to take such jobs.It's not that he and other Americans don't want to do landscaping anymore; it's just that in heavily trafficked ILLEGAL Alien environments, IT DOESNT PAY WELL ENOUGH ANYMORE.\n\n Younger U.S.-born high school graduates are squeezed at both ends. Jobs that would have gone to them in the past are now being grabbed by college graduates. The lowest-wage jobs are unappealing, and employers will not raise wages as long as ILLEGAL Immigrants will take them.\n\nIf this is what the open borders crowd means by ILLEGAL ALIENS doing jobs Americans don't want, they're right. American workers want jobs that can Earn them a DECENT LIVING in this country. Minimum wage is a fortune south of the border, but it doesn't go far here. \n***************************\n\nBack To The ASKERS Question---\n\n\nLets Get The Numbers Straight AND Ill Throw In A Few OTHER Facts For You TOO(For All You Bush Crime Family Lovers)\n\nThe BUSH Crime Family Administration Couldn't Have Done A Better Job \nOf Turning Iraq Into America's Most Expensive And  Dangerous Enemy If It Had Genuinely Had That As Its Goal. . . .\n\n\nAmount appropriated by the US Congress for Opereations In Iraq
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bear i agree whit u many Americans are looking for any job i know there is a lot of jobs picking up tomatoes why don't u ask ur friends to go ahead and do it . i also seen many homeless who would not even dare to participate on any job they could find . if someone else wants to do it shouldn't that person be allowed to do it? of course u could always give those jobs to the Indians like ur are doing already or u could buy ur products from china who will pay u any price they want as always . or u could take Alan Greenspan side who thinks a legalization would benefit the American economy greatly .\n\nhere u can see alan greenspan points of view :\nFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has spoken repeatedly about the contributions of both skilled and unskilled immigrants. He has advised Congress to ''open up our immigration rolls significantly'' in order to ward off higher inflation and higher interest rates. Similarly, hotel, restaurant, and health-care employers, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say the shortage of low-wage ''essential workers'' is an emergency that is causing companies to curtail expansion. They argue that ''when companies cannot fill jobs with U.S. workers, hiring foreign nationals should be a viable alternative.'' And organized labor is calling for a revision of immigration laws to give low-wage immigrants without legal status the right to stay permanently.\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_14/c3675078.htm
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His statement expressed a common misconception.  Americans spent years doing jobs like fruit picking and washing dishes.  It is not that Americans are unwilling to do the work, but that Americans are unwilling to do the work for the wages being offered.  Americans want to make minimum wage and to have workers comp if they get hurt. \n\nThe reason is that those jobs commonly filled by illegals pay less than minimum wage, but still more than they would make in their own country.  The employers get away with this because illegal workers don't complain about employer violations for fear of being deported.
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I've been in transition over the past 18 months to rejoin the private sector, and have applied for about 130 jobs.  I've gotten about 10 responses stating why I wasn't selected.  About three-quarters of the respondents said another candidate that was more qualified was selected, and the remaining positions were either cancelled or left unfunded.
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That would be a sure fire way to not get hired.  Employers aren't interested in kooks.
969639
I don't know...why don't you ask all the union auto workers who lost their jobs because they made way too much money.
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Have you evern seen the fields in California, in Arizona? Those people working under the hundred degree weather are all Mexicans, South Americans, Central Americans, probably undocumented. So far I have not seen an Anglo doing those jobs! How about construction? Those jobs are so dangerous, so hard to do! As for myself, I would not expose my life, my health, doing those tasks, for the cheap pay. Someone has to do it.\n\nWhat are my excuses? My allergies, my "education," my pride, you name it, I got it. I prefer to work in the shade, with "educated" people, with benefits. There's a lot of people like me... I love to buy my vegetables, my fruit, at a decent price. What will we do without immmigrants? The cost of everything will get so high it would not be affordable.\n\nAlso, when I travel, I like to find a clean bed in the hotel where I spend the night. I love to eat in restaurants too. Who do you think cooks that delicious Mexican or Chinese food you and I like? Who will be humble enough to clean the mess we Anglos make?\n\nOne more point: when I grow old, I want for those people who take care of me in the nursing home to be nice to me.
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I'm sick of that race card too!!!  It's not that Americans won't do those jobs, it's just that they won't do them for as little money (which they shouldn't).  The reason that illegals work for so little is because they are illegal.  I'm sure that if you offered those jobs to homeless and unemployed Americans that they would accept.  And if they refuse to do that kind of work.... let them be homeless without any social services then.
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Well - gosh - I see so many "Americans" lining up to clean, cook and do yard work.  These so called jobs being taken away from Americans (ha,ha) are given to immigrants bcuz they will do them for next to nothing in pay and if YOU were to do any of these jobs you would want $50 an hour with benefits and vacations and sick time and a say in what you do and a title for your job and pay raises etc, etc. You get the drift ???????
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i hate that they can't stay in their own countries and take their jobs. The unemployment rate in America is gonna start soaring if they don't go away
1060746
F U Pake! Immigrants do jobs most americans do not want to do.(Sewer regulation, bird poop cleaners) GO AMNESTY!
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Why does everyone keeps bringing the ( Oh they do the jobs no one else wants that's why we need them)in 1986 they had the same argument,so Reagan gave illegals amnesty,as soon as they were legal,they left those jobs and took over jobs that US citizens needed,not only that,the ones that stood in those low wage jobs went into welfare because they claimed they could'nt support their families(one wonders how they managed to support their families before they were made legal)don't expect this group of illegals to stay in the same low paying job once he or she is given amnesty,they will go against US citizens for any good paying job,so now expect another bunch of moochers cross our borders and claim they are here to do the jobs no one wants,DOES ANYONE SEE A PATTERN HERE
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First it is considered rude to type in all caps..........Second...........Illegal immigrants DO NOT just take the lower waged jobs. They take jobs in the construction field, plumbing field, roofing field, food service field etc. They work for less money in these fields than an American will, so they are getting hired over Americans. Americans are NOT too lazy to work the lower waged jobs, but they are too smart to work for the sub-standard wages that the Illegal Immigrants will work for because they can't stand up for themselves and demand better wages. I have had family members who did work the orchards, fields and rice fields, but they lost their jobs because the owners could hire Illegal Immigrants for less money.\n\nYou can claim they aren't Illegal that they are human, but they are still Illegally entering OUR country and taking work and other resources away from Americans. Which makes them Illegal Immigrant humans! This has nothing to do with Iraq, so that argument is ridiculous. \n\n\nQuinn..........You're right, an American won't work for "Crap Wages", but if the Illegal Immigrants weren't here these companies would be forced to pay decent wages. I am so sick of people claiming Americans won't work any job that isn't in an air conditioned office, pushing around a pencil. We aren't lazy and we aren't afraid of hard work, but we do expect to be paid a decent wage for any job we take. Thanks to Illegal Immigrants these companies won't hire Americans because they can pay slave wages to the Illegal Immigrants.\n\n\nmaat...........There is no job that is "beneath" an American! My father has worked for 35 years as a Mail Carrier, fighting the weather, crazy people, traffic, horrible working conditions and dogs. He works 6 days a week, 10-12 hours a day just to make ends meet. Don't give me the crap that Americans don't or won't work long hours in the sun! My father has worked in the snow in Illinois and the hot sun in California and the winter rains in California. You are right that we won't work for the "Crap Wages" though. The companies who hire the Illegal Immigrants would have to pay a decent wage if they couldn't hire the Illegal Immigrants instead. My family and friends have picked fruits and worked the rice fields and other fields and would do it again if the wages were decent. \n\n@--->---
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There are no jobs that Americans won't do if they are paid at least minimum wage and are protected by American labor and employment law.\n\nCheap labor allows businesses to not hire naturalized americans and to outsource jobs.  within a generation there will be no jobs for actual american citizens and then the economy will tank because no one will be able to buy anything.\n\nWhy do people assume that illegals are only doing the manual jobs?  They are doing restaurant, hotel, construction, childcare, and any other job they are offered....not just produce pickers.\n\nif Dynacorp can hire someone for 1 dollar, why would they hire you?  or your son?  or daughter?
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LOL I don't know, ask the employers that are hiring illigals. No hiring of illigals no illigals. Problem solved.