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2022-09-03 -Great Cultural Revolution
Biden's Labor Chief Promotes Worker Replacement, Says Immigrants Are ‘Only Way' to Fill Jobs
[Breitbart] The Democrat party’s pick for Secretary of Labor says CEOs are being victimized by a shortage of immigrant workers.

Companies want to hire another 11 million people, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Fox News on September 2, adding:

If those 11 million jobs had to be filled tomorrow, we certainly don’t have enough people in the United States to fill those jobs … the issue of workers has to be addressed and the only way [emphasis added] you can do it is through immigration.

“When I talk to CEOs from companies all across America, they’re all in favor of immigration reform,” he said, “they’re all in favor of pathways — of visas — for people coming into the United States working and we’re going to have to have that real serious conversation because at some point it will begin to impact our economy.”

But Walsh “doesn’t seem to know what’s going on in the U.S. labor market in terms of real wages for the less-educated, or the labor force participation,” responded Steve Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies.

“There are two main things that you could do [to get Americans into those jobs] — make it more attractive to work and make it less attractive to sit on your ass,” he said:

“Could you ever get teenagers to work like they did in the 70s? No, but could you get a million more teenagers to work? Yeah. Could you ever get men to have the labor force participation rate of 96 percent — say non-college men 25 to 54 — that we had in 1964? No, but could you get it up to 88 percent instead of 84 percent or 83 percent? Yes.”

The government should try to fill jobs with some of the roughly 60 million adults not working by allowing wages to rise, he said.

The 60 million number includes 5.5 million people who said they want a job but are not part of the unemployment numbers because they have not looked for jobs in the last four weeks.

The government should also try to raise the productivity of American workers with better training and machinery, he added:

“The most important way to make a country actually richer on a per capita basis — which is all that really matters — is productivity. If you want to grow the per capita GDP, productivity is really a key option, and there’s no evidence that immigration helps to do that.”

Walsh “seems to be entirely captive to the perspective of Wall Street, which wants a bigger economy and ignores the fact that productivity growth is the real key to increasing wages and improving the standard of living,” he added.

Some GOP legislators are looking at ways to help non-working Americans rejoin the labor force. For example, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), told a town hall event:

“There is a number of innovative ideas I would support. [Former Sen.] Phil Gramm came to the Senate where we were talking about our labor shortage and one of his suggestions was to coax seniors to re-enter the workforce — don’t charge them payroll tax. They’re not paying it anyway so they want to get back in and earn a few extra bucks.”

But that pro-American, anti-poverty proposal was quickly stabbed by Todd Schulte, the president of a billionaire-funded pro-migration advocacy group:

[I] would suggest a better approach is a pathway to citizenship (work permits!) for undocumented immigrants, not terminating DACA/TPS/H-4 EADs, and modernizing and expanding vs trying to slash legal immigration avenues for those coming in the future.

Schulte heads FWD.us, which is a trade lobby created by wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, and various other investors-billionaires. The group was formed in 2013 to maximize the inflow of foreign workers, taxpayer-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters into the U.S. economy. The investors have close ties to many Democrats, including Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain.

The mostly female staff of the group tries to hide the identity of the investors who founded and funded the group. But copies exist at other sites.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-03 05:47|| || Front Page|| [17 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

#1 At bargain basement prices!

Interesting they understand that by flooding the labor market they lower their costs (of servile labor) but can't grasp that by increasing the production of gas/oil that would also lower the costs.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-03 09:35||   2022-09-03 09:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I got my layoff notice Tuesday, While searching job sites I found the company I worked for is wanting 3 people for the position I had but at a significantly lower pay than what I was making. They want people with little experience and will "train them on the job" which is one reason I was hired. To fix the multiple mistakes made by the previous crop of low experience designers,
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-09-03 10:31||   2022-09-03 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 While the electric harvester is plugged in, those onions aren't going to pick themselves, right?

The government should also try to raise the productivity of American workers with better training and machinery, he added:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAAJ!

You're killing me Smalls!
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-03 10:59||   2022-09-03 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 We have a shortage of people that consistently come to work and work productively. I believe the root cause would be decades of woke socialist culture and education. Weed and fentanyl are not helping.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-09-03 11:06||   2022-09-03 11:06|| Front Page Top

#5 /\/\ Sorry to hear that Deacon. Been there, done that. Takes the 'feel good meter' a while before it finally leaves the peg. Nothing you have done. Nothing you could have done. It's not personal, it's just foking binnes in the current environment.

Difficult not to blame one's self, even subconsciously. Don't do it !
Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-03 11:10||   2022-09-03 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually the decline in the labor force participation rate for men 25-54 is the screaming headline. I would love a serious study of why this is happening.
Posted by Tom 2022-09-03 11:49||   2022-09-03 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Deacon, whoever made that decision is a fugly moron, hoping the gumball machine gives them a packet of magic beans.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-03 11:53||   2022-09-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 We might be better off if we replaced these dipshits in government with illegal aliens.
Posted by Chris 2022-09-03 14:08||   2022-09-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 I think at this point I think we need Ash J. Williams.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-03 14:21||   2022-09-03 14:21|| Front Page Top

#10 With regards, The Great State of Kansas re-did their game license system.

It was obviously made by people with no real world experience.

License vendors were to print onto copy paper. Copy paper. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I can't get out of the car on a fishing trip without getting wet, nevermind doing a day long walkabout without this piece of paper not getting absolutely ruined.

"Sir, nice catch.....papers please."

-pulls out glob of cellulous-

"I swear officer, its in there!?"
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-03 14:43||   2022-09-03 14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 There should be a policy that if a business cannot function without non-Americans, maybe it oughtn't to be in America.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-03 14:46||   2022-09-03 14:46|| Front Page Top

#12 How about this, for each foreigner they bring in to replace an American, one board member/CEO/CFO/etc in upper management will be burned at the stake on the front lawn, chosen by the American being replaced. Think that would get the point across?
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-09-03 15:08||   2022-09-03 15:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Ima kinda liking that
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-03 20:32||   2022-09-03 20:32|| Front Page Top

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