Update: First they took the manufacturing jobs and I didn't complain

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

39. Really depends on whose ox is being gored, heh?

Apparently, there's not a lot of people on this site who grew up with other family members hard at work in the construction industry. Most of those jobs are held by undocumented immigrants hard at work, now.

And when my cousin's offshore job went south during the eighties oil glut, he moved he and his family to Florida and and they worked hard to start a successful landscape business. That, too, went south a few years later with undocumented immigrants commanding most of that market.

Cheap labor has been putting Americans out of work for decades.

My husband's job will likely be outsourced or H1-b'ed within the next few months. He is the only American left on a team of twelve people. And, yeah, he's at an age where it will be very difficult to find another good paying job.

It sucks, but this is the new reality.