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My solution would be to ensure livable wages for all citizens first. Period.
.Anyway, my point is that not taking care of citizens force them into competition and conflict with each other. If this weren't true, some people wouldn't be complaining about not having enough, whole others are complaining that they're giving too much.
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You're saying that immigrants drive wages down. If they do, it's because employers use them as leverage against unorganized citizen laborers. I remember in the 70s when I was a union carpenter. Trump and other real estate developers hired West Indian carpenters (joiners) to do the "rehab" and renovation work in the Bronx and other boroughs. The immigrant carpenters were paid exactly one half union scale. Great for developers, but it didn't lower union wages. What happened was that the union business agent for the carpenter's union (Willie Nordstrom) was shot dead in front of his home (in Throggs Neck, Bx). Did I blame the West Indians? No
If healthcare is a right as some seem to feel, why isn't housing and food. Should they also be guaranteed and provided for by the government.
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.[1] The phrase gives three examples of the "unalienable rights" which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their creator, and which governments are created to protect.
Or did those developers actively go out and seek those who were from the West Indies. Would they not take anyone able to do the job that was non-union.
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Yep. They sought them out, starting in the 60s. Before that, developers used immigrants from Italy to do stone work. Jamaican joiners were highly skilled because their labor market was strictly controlled. No, Jamaican and Trinidadian workers did not sneak in to the country to oust American workers. Like
He was killed because he wanted the Jamaican workers to be paid union wages and receive union benefit
told me on most work sites they didn't take kindly to non union workers trying to work on site...
no matter who they were or where they were from., legal or illegal.
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