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We are often told that illegal immigrants take the jobs that American's won't do.  I don't believe this to be true for starters, it seems that if you travel outside of the south western United States it becomes obvious that American citizens will infact do landscaping, construction and drive trash trucks not to mention work in fast food.  That aside you have to ask why?
 
What kinds of jobs won't you do and how much money would you need to be paid in order to take certain jobs?  Is it beneath you to pick apples for minimum wage or sweep floors at ten dollars and hour?  How much to drive a trash truck or mow lawns?  Is some of it beneath you?


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  • silverwhisper said on Sep 03, 2007....
    i don't think it's the work, i think it's the pay for that work. it's why convenience stores are invariably run by immigrants, not native-born citizens: an immigrant is willing to put in 14-16 hour days--the immigrant almost invariably has a lower threshold for quality of life.

    for me it isn't that a job or the work is beneath me: it's that i'm qualified to do something that pays better.

    ed
  • minniemouse said on Sep 03, 2007....
    Well put ed.......I agree completely........that said though, if I truely needed the money for myself and my girls and it meant the difference of not having food/shelter, there isn't a job in this world that I wouldn't do to provide for them.  I just thank my parents for helping me through college, so that I'm qualified for decent paying jobs.  :-)  Minnie
  • Daniel68 said on Sep 18, 2007....
    Kellogg Brown & Root, the BushCo's favorite group of gangsters raping the American till - they used to drive trucks across the Iraqi desert filled with insurgents with drivers from the phillipines or india and the trucks had nothing in them. So they could bill transportation costs with a 10x markup (cost plus rules) to the fed.

    THe manifest of these trucks said (I'm not making this up) - sailboat fuel.

    You gotta admire the balls in that.

    Driving that truck - that would be beneath me.


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