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sigmasix

(794 posts)
30. quality employers are too few, not employees
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 11:41 PM
Jun 2013

The people that use the recession as an excuse to increase profit and destroy jobs have been hard at work trying to convince America that we are experiencing a dearth of qualified workers. The same partisan agents that destroyed American labor rights and rolled-back child-labor laws are complaining that America's workers should have to compete with 3rd world country insourcing to make a living. Large medical providers are attempting to destroy the American nursing proffession by shipping in "nurses" from 3rd world countries and housing them in dorm-type situations, while paying them less than minimum wage to provide inadequet care for our family and friends with medical needs and increasing the incidents and severity of the damage they cause when mistakes are made. The criminally wealthy in America have achieved near total control over our once great country. Now they claim it is the fault of all those little people that want to work an honest day's work for an honest day's pay!
Hasnt this always been the point of contention between hard working American citizens and treasonous, criminally wealthy, vultures that would sell their fellow americans into slavery for an opportunity to increase dividend "earnings" and steal what's left of America's public infrastructure as rewards for supporting right wing partisan politicians and their claims that American workers are the worst in the world.
America has no shortage of highly skilled labor- we have a shortage of people that are willing to do an honest day's work, for little or no pay. The criminally wealthy hates the uppity attitude of American workers and their labor rights. And they have no problem with destroying the country that created those rights.
The Teabaggers work alongside the criminally wealthy in the hopes of destroying American cohesion and true patriotism. These bullshit stories about labor shortages keep cropping up in right wing rags and blogs because the right wing intends to introduce legislation that makes union activity illegal, but opens the country's borders to anyone willing to be paid sub-poverty level wages.
Remember, It's just money to them and they have plenty of it. If they can use money to get away with unfair and inhuman working conditions while destroying any future American labor rights, why not? Probably considered a good investment return when you can get away with stealing labor, destroying poor families and gutting human rights- think of the profit margins that will result for the criminally wealthy when ALEC guest worker legislation bcomes the law of the land! No one believes that the criminally wealthy will experience a jolt of sudden patriotism that will stop them from destroying America.

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" We can't get enough workers" [View all] dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 OP
You could tell him it's his own damned fault Warpy Jun 2013 #1
You talk as if you know him, and ascribe behaviors to him which are not true, in his case. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #6
Then my post applies to those "folks are saying." Warpy Jun 2013 #9
what part of WE did you not understand? GeorgeGist Jun 2013 #18
He can't find workers who are willing to be paid tiny amounts of cash. Brickbat Jun 2013 #2
Bingo. Ask what he's paying. Scuba Jun 2013 #21
+1. Double bingo. Who did it before the lg wave of illegal immigration? Honeycombe8 Jun 2013 #23
They always drop that one qualifier right before worker rock Jun 2013 #3
Amen to that. I worked during the summer school break when I was in school earning my degree. BlueJazz Jun 2013 #16
What's it paying? PD Turk Jun 2013 #4
He'd probably have skilled people Aerows Jun 2013 #12
yep PD Turk Jun 2013 #15
Did you ask him how much he's paying? That's almost always the question they won't answer. Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #5
Zuckerburg has the same problem as he does... Which is why we're getting more H-1B Visas... cascadiance Jun 2013 #7
Exactly Aerows Jun 2013 #13
One off-topic suggestion jeff47 Jun 2013 #19
I have a roofing dilemma. ohheckyeah Jun 2013 #8
Ask him for references. Ask to see any other roofing jobs he's done. haele Jun 2013 #10
This is a fairly simple job in that there is only one layer of shingles, so no tear off. ohheckyeah Jun 2013 #17
What we did dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #20
Thank you very much for the advice. ohheckyeah Jun 2013 #22
Well, the young guy is licensed but not ohheckyeah Jun 2013 #32
"We can't get enough workers" Aerows Jun 2013 #11
Translation: "I don't want to pay decent wages." backscatter712 Jun 2013 #14
Or improve working conditions like unpaid overtime and vacation leave. Initech Jun 2013 #24
It is hard to find good work these days, Incitatus Jun 2013 #25
Facing $9 billion in demand, Iowa contractors feel impact of skilled labor shortage dkf Jun 2013 #26
Thank you for that broader view of the situation. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #27
You couldn't pay me enough to climb on a roof AnnieBW Jun 2013 #28
I am with you. And in 90 degree heat, no less. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #29
quality employers are too few, not employees sigmasix Jun 2013 #30
Excellent post I must say Populist_Prole Jun 2013 #31
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