Workers
Driving in Capitola yesterday, I saw a sight that set my teeth on edge. At the risk of pissing people off, I'm sharing and not apologizing for my outrage.
Driving past the hardware store where the illegal day workers hang, waiting to be picked up, I noticed that the number of US citizen types, had finally surpassed the number of non US. Clean cut... the kind of guys we have had here at the house, working on our plumbing and wiring.
Now... I don't care what your nationality is, what the color of your skin is... if you're a citizen here in this country and you can't get work because it's going to someone here illegally, the system is broken. If employers are choosing illegal labor because they can get away with paying them criminally low wages, the system is broken.
If every citizen who wants to be working is employed and there's still work to be done, sure... bring in outside workers, but when an American citizen (black, white, brown, yellow, red, green, magenta... whatever) is left standing holding a sign reading "Any Work for $$$" while a truck pulls away having picked up the cheap, illegal labor, the system is fucking broken.
Driving past the hardware store where the illegal day workers hang, waiting to be picked up, I noticed that the number of US citizen types, had finally surpassed the number of non US. Clean cut... the kind of guys we have had here at the house, working on our plumbing and wiring.
Now... I don't care what your nationality is, what the color of your skin is... if you're a citizen here in this country and you can't get work because it's going to someone here illegally, the system is broken. If employers are choosing illegal labor because they can get away with paying them criminally low wages, the system is broken.
If every citizen who wants to be working is employed and there's still work to be done, sure... bring in outside workers, but when an American citizen (black, white, brown, yellow, red, green, magenta... whatever) is left standing holding a sign reading "Any Work for $$$" while a truck pulls away having picked up the cheap, illegal labor, the system is fucking broken.