Bringing down our wages?! Have you noticed a lot of the mega-conglomerates ARE IN MEXICO? The technical, telephone, telecommute jobs that used to pay $12/average are paying considerably less in a nation with little worker rights. Also, those American companies get massive tax breaks for doing so. Take your opinions and stuff them back up your backside.
Posted by redlightrobot at 2008-06-26 10:42 PM | Reply | Flag
Actually, the Mexicans really ARE doing what he said. Jobs that used to pay a man enough to make house payments nowadays barely scrape minimum wage. The old fallacy of "they do work white people don't want to" is ridiculous. I'd LOVE to do the work. Any work. I just want a living wage for it. Hell, I'd settle for 9 bucks an hour right now. I realize I can't compete with people willing to pack 10 deep into one bedroom apartments.. but honestly... America is supposed to be better then that.
Oh.. but I can't compete for that, either. Some goddamned Mexican broker stole my identity, and they've done it so fucking well that I can't even get a credit check on myself because my own credit profile has a password on it that I don't know, because the REAL me didn't put the damned thing on there.
And a background check on myself reveals I am both working in some other state, for $5.50 an hour at a factory... AND I'm working at a Wal-Mart as an overnight cleaner. AND presently in jail in Colorado. It's hard to get a job when a background check says you are _in_ jail.
Kinda sad that the fake me's have jobs, and I just got canned from mine for "lying on the application" about my work history. I didn;t, but according to a background check on me, I sure did. Le sigh.
I am longwinded, meh? Point is...
Just because it's not happening to YOU, douchebag, doesn't mean it's not happening.