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Originally Posted by John1234  So basically some of you are saying that even if the Illegals roam to your city and lower the average skilled wage from $16 per hour to $8 per hour due to their illegal competition, that its just a fact of life and its my own fault for not being able to adapt?
Let me ask you this...
How many of you earn $8.00 per hour, adapted by learning a new language, and have 0 savings?
I already know the answer to that one.
So now I wonder how many of you "think" that a person can live off $8.00 an hour?
Hell i spend more than that on mountain dew and cigarettes.
$8.00 wont even cover the gas alone for driving into the city to try and learn Spanish.
Even at $16 per hour, its extremely tough to make it.
And it took me over 10 years to become a master of my trade.
I am approaching middle aged. I don't have the time left in my life to spend another decade learning a new trade.
I have already adapted from the mid set of a business man and contractor to a worker.
Now i am suppose to adapt to making an amount of money that would only allow me to share a cardboard box with 4 people in an ally?
I am not against Mexicans.
But give me a break. Adapting surely is not the answer.
This is OUR country. They should adapt here. Not us.
If i went to Mexico, then i would expect to adapt.
I will concede though, that if it was not for the housing crisis, things would not be as bad as they are. |
Yes, adapt. You started your own business so you have a brain obviously. Your business was always on the brink even before the illegals came so maybe you need to work on marketing your business better, etc. Don't mean to sound harsh, but adapting is the reality for any business or industry, which always happens. Look around in your house, how many products are made in america? They used to at one time or another I would bet. Were so comfortable here and fail to recognize that we need to stay hungry like the legal and illegal immigrants from other countries. I live in southern california, and mexicans are getting into everything: landscaping, construction, garbage, post office etc. etc. A lot of them are legal and a lot are illegal, but they are all hungry and starting their own businesses. I would argue that they are adapting. Adapting to the American dream. We recently looked at home care facilities and 99% of them are run and owned by filipinos. Why? Because they have that desire, they are then new entrepreneurs just like you when you first started your business. Get off your soap box and get hungry again and stop complaining.