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Re: news to me...

Reply #30 – March 05, 2005, 10:35:48 PM

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jasontbirdScott, maybe you and your entire family shold pack it up and move up here. Plenty of jobs for you.

Im not area dependant and the jobs in my area are here but mostly 6bux / hr. A couple three good companies but thats it.

Ive relocated 5 times,, i know there is no loyalty so i plan on landing work sometime time but ,,,,,relocate for them,, why? so you can be laid if in two or four years. Its becoming a reality that no ones gonna retire anymore with benifits. , period and i accept this. As a recourse, ive been taveling vs making my family move around.
previous companies
Dominion power - temp employee 9/04-12/04 layoff
Marconi Commuincations - field proj mgr national accounts (cleve oh) layoff 2/01-6/03
Commonwealth telephone co -Outside plant and central office construction supv (dallas pa) layoff 5/00-12/00
Alcatel - field installation supv ( dallas tx) layoff 9/95-5/00
Us navy - aviation electronics tech (east coast sea and s) active 9/86-7/95, reserves till 9/01

I actually think my biggest downfall is the lack of a BA degree.

Re: news to me...

Reply #31 – March 07, 2005, 09:54:44 AM

Quote from: jasontbird

Jim I don't agree with you that we would have shortage of produce without the migrant workers. They would just have to pay more for labor and or equipment to get the same job done.

I got a question for you Jim. How many immigrants from any nationality would you allow? The last thing I saw were migrant workers fighting eachother over jobs in California. There is a compromise somewhere in the middle though. But there can not be limitless imigration, period.

When I said that the agriculture industry would collapse I was talking about if there was a huge crackdown on all of the illegal migrant workers. The industry would not be able to replace so many workers overnight and it would definitely go through a period where it had to either shut down or drastically reduce output until the labor force was replaced.

It's a good thing the U.S. didn't have such a huge complicated immigration policy with so much red tape when our ancestors came to this country, huh? They may never have gotten in.