Canada now bans foreigners from buying houses- should we do the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

I thought big business can’t hire enough people and they’re complaining that Americans are too lazy to work? What about the labor shortage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

there's a shortage of manufacturing workers. What jobs are these immigrants taking away from those snowflakes who can't seem to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

factually wrong

there is shortage of workers willing to work for low wages with no health benefits for part time jobs.

there is NO labor shortage.

Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism.

"[To attract] workers, the employer may have to increase his wage offer. ... So when you hear an employer saying he needs immigrants to fill a "labor shortage'', remember what you are hearing: a cry for a labor subsidy to allow the employer to avoid the normal functioning of the labor market."

-1990 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Michael S. Teitelbaum

http://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

there's a shortage of manufacturing workers. What jobs are these immigrants taking away from those snowflakes who can't seem to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

just amazing that smart people fall for this republican propaganda.

the left really has abandoned US workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

there's a shortage of manufacturing workers. What jobs are these immigrants taking away from those snowflakes who can't seem to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

just amazing that smart people fall for this
the left really has abandoned US workers.

^ This is exactly correct.

[Anonymous]

People, your sarcasm detectors need adjusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

there's a shortage of manufacturing workers. What jobs are these immigrants taking away from those snowflakes who can't seem to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

just amazing that smart people fall for this republican propaganda.

the left really has abandoned US workers.

go tell the manufacturing companies this.

https://www.nam.org/2-1-million-manufacturing-jobs-could-go-unfilled-by-2030-13743/

https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/us-manufacturing-labor-shortage-nearshoring-biden-semiconductors-training-skilled-workers/#:~:text=Still%2C%20American%20manufacturing%20is%20facing,set%20aside%20for%20workforce%20development.

You seem a bit confused as to what party has exactly abandoned the American workers. Reagan started NAFTA. His administration made a big push for the Maquiladora program. He also deregulated all kinds of industries that basically pushed more jobs overseas. Nixon pushed to open China to US markets, in effect, helping them become an manufacturing powerhouse.

Reagan (and Trump) was not a fan of unions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

there's a shortage of manufacturing workers. What jobs are these immigrants taking away from those snowflakes who can't seem to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

factually wrong

there is shortage of workers willing to work for low wages with no health benefits for part time jobs.

there is NO labor shortage.

Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism.

"[To attract] workers, the employer may have to increase his wage offer. ... So when you hear an employer saying he needs immigrants to fill a "labor shortage'', remember what you are hearing: a cry for a labor subsidy to allow the employer to avoid the normal functioning of the labor market."

-1990 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Michael S. Teitelbaum

http://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf

LOL 1990. I bet you were in diapers in 1990.

Here's a recent one , from the manufacturing industry:

https://www.nam.org/2-1-million-manufacturing-jobs-could-go-unfilled-by-2030-13743/?stream=workforce

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no disputing the data: Wages for working-class Americans are not keeping up with inflation. Moreover, a near-record number of Americans are now out of the labor force entirely. And yet many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

It is not surprising when Big Business calls for more immigration to keep wages down, but what has happened to the American left?

https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/democrats-undermine-working-class-with-open-borders-and-illegal-labor/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

there's a shortage of manufacturing workers. What jobs are these immigrants taking away from those snowflakes who can't seem to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

factually wrong

there is shortage of workers willing to work for low wages with no health benefits for part time jobs.

there is NO labor shortage.

Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism.

"[To attract] workers, the employer may have to increase his wage offer. ... So when you hear an employer saying he needs immigrants to fill a "labor shortage'', remember what you are hearing: a cry for a labor subsidy to allow the employer to avoid the normal functioning of the labor market."

-1990 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Michael S. Teitelbaum

http://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf

LOL 1990. I bet you were in diapers in 1990.

Here's a recent one , from the manufacturing industry:

https://www.nam.org/2-1-million-manufacturing-jobs-could-go-unfilled-by-2030-13743/?stream=workforce

They could fill those jobs tomorrow with 100% natural born Americans if they paid enough.