Politicians have stated they would give aid to people out of work.
Common folk do not want aid we want jobs.
If people wanted aid then there would be a lot more of them who would actually quit working and get food stamps.
In order to create more jobs for Americans we should eliminate part of the immigrant work force.
When reading the last comment a person would immediately vision or think of Mexicans.
After all they are associated as the main immigrant work force.
Some immigrant workers are from other countries.
South American usually appear to be Mexicans, to the common American, but some are from other countries in the region.
It does not matter where they are from, they are taking jobs from Americans who made this country so strong.
The United States is so strong that it has this situation occurring at alarming rates, foreigners are coming left and right to work here.
George Bush Jr.
addressed the nation saying that the immigrants were taking jobs that Americans did not want.
That is true but yet so untrue that is pathetically inaccurate.
Presidents normally have enough information to know that is not totally true, but Bush did make that statement.
The actual truth is that at one time Americans held these jobs that the immigrants feature.
The main jobs that these spanish looking immigrants do are landscaping and construction of all types.
These are jobs Americans do want and have held in the past.
Everybody knows that when immigrants from South America came to the U.
S.
they took less pay.
Everyone knows, yet may not realize, that was great for employers.
An employer saves roughly $100 per week per immigrant employee.
These employers are in business, the business of making money, and were definitely in for the money saved and thus earned.
There are construction company owners in the U.
S.
that only hire immigrants from South America.
They know they can pay them less and having an American is like having a bad apple, so to speak.
Now the average Joe also realizes that these same immigrants stay in houses with more people per home.
It is not out of the ordinary to see eight or nine South American adults in the same dwelling.
Not only are they living with more people per household but they are also concentrating on lower rent housing.
You now see trailer parks with a large South American populations.
One reason that these immigrants stay in these low income housing environments is because of where they come from.
Mobile homes are still a notch up in the normal living environment for someone from South America.
Many Americans do not realize that the immigrants from South America often have dirt floors in their homes.
Many times they do not have bathrooms or running water in their homes either.
Americans do generally realizethat homes in South America are not fabricated as well as in the U.
S.
That could have something to do with why they come to the U.
S.
A..
There is no real data available to make an estimation of the difference in the cost of a roofs over our heads.
But for relevance to what an immigrant, legal or illegal, may have in his pocket versus a legal American citizen.
Lets say an immigrant lives with seven adults in his house, that are paying their portion, while an American is living with two.
Now estimate the immigrants are renting a home for $500 and the Americans are renting for $700.
An immigrant has to pay 1/7 while an American has to pay 1/2 of the total rent for their respective dwellings.
That means that an immigrant is actually paying around $71 to an American paying $350.
These figures do not include all other expenses like utilities, cable, phone, and such and are also educated guesses to show relevance only.
The government is not able to run a study on immigrants who are often illegal or nearly illegal.
Even the legal immigrants do not report much to the U.
S.
possibly because of the language barrier.
That is not the point.
The point is even though an immigrant makes $100 less per week doing the same job as an American, his culture he came from, actually allows for him to have more money in his pocket.
He actually saves more than an American making slightly more money..
Now to explain the nearly illegal.
Many South Americans the get laid off return home for this period.
They returned to Mexico not just to reunite with relatives, but also to save money.
It is way much less expensive to live in their mother land of Mexico.
When they get the call back to work they simply cross the border and return to their place of work.
Now not only do Mexicans have more pocket money while in America but some actually spend less when laid-off.
At one point, 1988, the Mexicans were all required to get a Department of Agriculture Work Permit.
They could not take these work permits back to Mexico.
It made the permit null and void.
Mexican authorities would confiscate them if those papers were found on their person in Mexico.
They were not allowed by US law and Mexican law to leave and come back on a Work Permit either.
All these laws may have changed since NAFTA.
Internet research did not get any conclusive evidence these laws have ever been changed.
This general strategy being used by the South American migrant worker does do well for our American economy? It is not good for the U.
S.
to have people making money in our great nation and then spend a portion of it in Mexico, or any other country, on a regular basis.
That is not very good for the economical circle at all.
In order for the economical circle to keep going people have to put their money back into it.
If the monies are not put the back in the economical circle the circle gets smaller.
Kind of like the current economy in the good ole U S of A.
As far as the Bush statement is concerned, it is not that Americans do not want the jobs that immigrants have, it is that Americans do not want them at the adjusted rate of pay.
If you look into construction you will find the hourly wage increase is not equal to the cost of living increase since the South Americans infiltrated the work force.
Drywall, roofing, and framing wages have not increased much at all since 1994.
That was around the same time that many employers jumped on the immigrant worker bandwagon.
These foreigners working in the United State are not allowed to join the services.
They cannot fight for this country, this culture, or anything else.
The U.
S.
Governments allow immigrants in, for the purpose of working in the American labor force, from a very large number of countries.
That is fine because those people are accounted for and being allowed to legally be in the U.
S.
for this purpose.
Many of these immigrants are also here to learn American job force interactions.
That is great, but we should eliminate the ones who are here illegally because they are lowering pay scales and killing the economy, not to mention taking legal Americans or legal immigrants jobs.
The common Americans should take time, out of their lives, when it is convenient, to help educate these foreigners.
This would create a better understanding of what is expected and anticipated for these immigrant workers, by these immigrant workers, and to these immigrant workers.