14-08-2013, 12:27 PM
Don
If you want to hear a story of somebody screwed over by illegal immigration and the outsourcers you should sit down and talk to me and my formerly employed software developers and construction workers.
See before i got my now totally worthless computer science degree (magna cum laude grad ) at the age of 46 I was one of the top drywall finishers ( hand as opposed to Ames machine ) in the burbs of NYC for about 25 years. There are lots of finishers out there but there aren't a whole lot that do top quality work FAST. Finishing is skilled HARD LABOR. It's also intellectual on a certain level. The best are always using their head.
It's not unusual for a finishers body to break down by the age of 40 from the strain. Never the less I come from a family that has amazing Dutch genes that give them the ability to do said hard labor into old age.
After the dot com meltdown when my tech degree became approximately worth the paper it is written on I was disappointed but not too worried. I could return to my former trade and still make a decent middle-class living. Little did i know.
The illegals had always been around in small numbers and they were known for working cheap and doing real third rate work.The corner bead and the tape would just about be popping off the walls about a week after they completed the job.
Right about the time that Bush came into office the numbers of illegals exploded in the NYC area and its burbs. A construction boom started by late 2002 when the banks began handing out money to anybody with a pulse. However this construction boom was unlike any other i had seen. Houses were popping up all over my neck of the woods BUT THERE WERE ALMOST NO WANT ADS FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS .
I managed to get hired on after a long job search. I immediately noticed that about 75% of the people on these jobs were illegals most of which i couldn't communicate with. The boss men were continually trying to throw a scare into the american workers by saying they had a connection to a large supply of illegals that worked cheap. The line would go something like "you know i'm getting sick of some of these guys working for me and i might just get rid of them and replace them with Mexicans".
They made good on that threat and during the construction boom i was able to get almost zero work and i saw this replicated with many of my formerly employed co workers in all trades. Those were middle-class job that disappeared too.
I hope nobody is wondering why this economy can't recover.
If you want to hear a story of somebody screwed over by illegal immigration and the outsourcers you should sit down and talk to me and my formerly employed software developers and construction workers.
See before i got my now totally worthless computer science degree (magna cum laude grad ) at the age of 46 I was one of the top drywall finishers ( hand as opposed to Ames machine ) in the burbs of NYC for about 25 years. There are lots of finishers out there but there aren't a whole lot that do top quality work FAST. Finishing is skilled HARD LABOR. It's also intellectual on a certain level. The best are always using their head.
It's not unusual for a finishers body to break down by the age of 40 from the strain. Never the less I come from a family that has amazing Dutch genes that give them the ability to do said hard labor into old age.
After the dot com meltdown when my tech degree became approximately worth the paper it is written on I was disappointed but not too worried. I could return to my former trade and still make a decent middle-class living. Little did i know.
The illegals had always been around in small numbers and they were known for working cheap and doing real third rate work.The corner bead and the tape would just about be popping off the walls about a week after they completed the job.
Right about the time that Bush came into office the numbers of illegals exploded in the NYC area and its burbs. A construction boom started by late 2002 when the banks began handing out money to anybody with a pulse. However this construction boom was unlike any other i had seen. Houses were popping up all over my neck of the woods BUT THERE WERE ALMOST NO WANT ADS FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS .
I managed to get hired on after a long job search. I immediately noticed that about 75% of the people on these jobs were illegals most of which i couldn't communicate with. The boss men were continually trying to throw a scare into the american workers by saying they had a connection to a large supply of illegals that worked cheap. The line would go something like "you know i'm getting sick of some of these guys working for me and i might just get rid of them and replace them with Mexicans".
They made good on that threat and during the construction boom i was able to get almost zero work and i saw this replicated with many of my formerly employed co workers in all trades. Those were middle-class job that disappeared too.
I hope nobody is wondering why this economy can't recover.
