This is a very old article but I just found it the other day and I think it's an interesting discussion to have.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/14/...omedepot14
So basically when people loiter and trespass in front of your business the city rolls in and tells you, you have to provide, bathrooms, water, and shelter for said loiterers. I never cease to be amazed at the People's Republic of Kalifornia. How long before the crack addicts outside the Wawa trying to bum cigarettes are provided with state mandated hot meals forced from the company?
Home Depot should have hired security to put these clowns on their asses years ago. I mean seriously these illegal day laborers that hang out at Lowes or Home Depot in the morning make what $10 - 15/hr in cash. So back of the envelope calculation $20,800 non-taxed income MINIMUM if you could work most days. An American by contrast would need to be paid roughly 30 grand to match that. Then again you have to consider that an American making that wage wouldn't qualify for federal assistance (above the poverty line) like the illegal day laborers do in the form of section 8, food stamps, medicaid etc. Good fucking luck finding a 30 grand a year job with a benefits package like that.
I really don't see how people can live with themselves hiring these assholes and cheating an American out of doing an honest day's work. I'm willing to bet if a bunch of out of work union laborers showed up in front of somewhere and loitered around like that they would either be attacked or threatened by the current occupiers or the police would be called to remove them. I'm not even going to into the lumber yards and hardware suppliers Home Depot and Lowes put out of business to create a place for illegals to loiter.
It's just disgusting the pandering that goes on at the expense of the American worker. I know several people who have been out of work for years and are willing to do ANYTHING just to make ends meet and can't find a job. So to say that illegals do the jobs Americans don't want to do is bullshit, but nobody wants to admit it because then we'd have to have a real debate about how fucked up our economy is.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/14/...omedepot14
So basically when people loiter and trespass in front of your business the city rolls in and tells you, you have to provide, bathrooms, water, and shelter for said loiterers. I never cease to be amazed at the People's Republic of Kalifornia. How long before the crack addicts outside the Wawa trying to bum cigarettes are provided with state mandated hot meals forced from the company?
Home Depot should have hired security to put these clowns on their asses years ago. I mean seriously these illegal day laborers that hang out at Lowes or Home Depot in the morning make what $10 - 15/hr in cash. So back of the envelope calculation $20,800 non-taxed income MINIMUM if you could work most days. An American by contrast would need to be paid roughly 30 grand to match that. Then again you have to consider that an American making that wage wouldn't qualify for federal assistance (above the poverty line) like the illegal day laborers do in the form of section 8, food stamps, medicaid etc. Good fucking luck finding a 30 grand a year job with a benefits package like that.
I really don't see how people can live with themselves hiring these assholes and cheating an American out of doing an honest day's work. I'm willing to bet if a bunch of out of work union laborers showed up in front of somewhere and loitered around like that they would either be attacked or threatened by the current occupiers or the police would be called to remove them. I'm not even going to into the lumber yards and hardware suppliers Home Depot and Lowes put out of business to create a place for illegals to loiter.
It's just disgusting the pandering that goes on at the expense of the American worker. I know several people who have been out of work for years and are willing to do ANYTHING just to make ends meet and can't find a job. So to say that illegals do the jobs Americans don't want to do is bullshit, but nobody wants to admit it because then we'd have to have a real debate about how fucked up our economy is.
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