The persons who worry about illegal immigrants taking away their jobs are really those who do not have the skill capacity to justify the pay they earn to begin with.
I dont mean to flame you and I sincerely mean it. But if you incorrectly spell words in every other sentence and write running sentences without comma and period, you really have no one to blame but yourself if your job is taken over by someone else who can do just as well or better for less pay.
It's a free world we are living in, the big businesses have to find the best business model to keep their empires going. If you want to be taken care of and not improving yourself to compete, you just have to find a communist model to live under. That is what Russia has been struggling with since Petroiska took place. There is a class of Russians who are dieing to see communist system coming back because they merely cannot keep up with the competition in the free market.
If Walmart employs illegal immigrants, they broke the law then by all mean they should be prosecuted and pay restitution. I understand they were caught and fined.
However, during Katrina crisis, while the government and many other organizations were running their butts in a circle with logistics, Walmart system successfully kept their stores stocked to the tune of the crisis need better than everyone else in the country thanks to their high tech computerized logistic control and command headquartered in Arkansas. That tells you they have their acts together and that's how they become successful and grow into a huge empire.
When I hear people whining about losing their highly paid manufacturing jobs and lost the way of life their parents have experienced during the past 60 plus years, I feel sad for them but I also want to ask them what is holding them back of making sacrifices, tightening the belt and investing into education or other businesses to meet the demands of the new world ? There is no reason for a guy standing on the assembly line in Detroit 8 hours a day operating a pneumatic ratchet tightening a few bolts and nuts and make $25 per hour simply because his union mandates the corporation to pay that rate. American corporation cannot survive in this new world if they continue to operate the few decades old business model.
Some 28 years ago I worked for PPG Industries in a glass factory in Texas. My job was very simple. I stood on an assembly line watching glass plates passing by on a conveyor belt. I was to look for defects on these plates. If I saw one, I was to pick it up and tossed it over to another conveyor belt, which took the glass back into the furnace to melt it down. For that no skill job, which an average chimpanzee could do, I was paid $12/hour. Minimum wage at the time was $2.10/hour. That was a dream job in town that a lot of young men graduating out of highschool dreamed of. Many of my co-workers were my classmates and after they got the job they spent their big bucks on fancy cars, girls, clothes, boats, weeds, booze.. ...you name it. I actually felt scared working that job. I found the pay I earned had no basis other than the result of the worker union political muscle levied against the employer. I invested my big bucks I earned with PPG on college instead and eventually earned an Electrical Engineering degree, with which I am making a decent living today because I had no faith in that PPG bubble created by the worker unionization.
I am not your wealthy corporate owner, just a white collar guy working a 9 to 5 job to raise a family like everyone else. I do not find it justifiable to bash big corporation for their perceived lack of loyalty toward workers since I know you and I have no qualm about leaving our current employer to go work for another if a nice pay raise is offered. Things work both way my friend.
