Are Illegals More Employable than Youths?

Maybe. Or maybe a full change in 3 key policies and one cultural expectation could solve this issue without importing a workforce.

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The whole thing about how you can pay illegal immigrants a whole lot less and kind of have them over a barrel as far as whether they can bicker about their employment conditions, and so that's why we have to keep illegal aliens going here or even importing cheap labor with the H2A visas or whatever it's called. All this I think is trying to put lipstick on a pig of a problem here. And I'm gonna have a couple things to bring out in this one here. The first of which is uh the matter of minimum wage itself. A fixed mandatory minimum wage determined by the government actually eliminates the ability of an employer to employ anyone for less than that. At which point, if you're gonna be paying the high schooler $13 an hour or a full-grown Mexican man $13 an hour, which one do you think is gonna get the preference? You see, now you're pricing your own American citizens out of the market in order to make way for this gridlock that you're gonna have over a voting populace that knows they are under threat of leaving if your vote ever goes the wrong way. Or if they ever try to unionize, or if they ever try to bicker for better wages. So that's one aspect of it. And the next aspect of it, I'm gonna bring up child labor laws. I mentioned high schoolers, and I intend to go there all the rest of the way. I do believe that child labor laws are rather extensive and sure they are meant to protect against abuses, but how many abuses that actually existed in bulk and in mass were they actually defending against? I think that's something that could be revisited. Because I have known plenty of kids all the way down through the sixth grade who are intrepid enough and they are bored to tears with school, they are bouncy, they are itchy, they are growing, they need to get out and active, and I can't think of a better way for that to happen than for them to have some kind of basic low-skill requirement job that gives them a foot in the door on any kind of employment and gives them work experience, helps them build the habits that they are going to need as employees in a much more rewarding way that actually pays them instead of just sitting down in school. It teaches them the value of doing your work well, doing your work hard, showing up to work on time because people rely on you, from your crew to your employer to the people that you are serving. Now, I'm gonna move from child labor laws all the way over to the related matter of mandatory schooling. I myself was once a kid, and in grade school I found myself bouncing a lot with just that growing energy that boys have, and boys do have it a bit more than girls, but that's not to say girls don't have it. I ain't focused on that right now. How many sixth grade boys would rather not be listening to another lecture on how George Washington saved America that they heard six times before? And would actually much rather be like out on a farm. They deal with the animals, or they're fixing the tractors, or they're towing around making fences. How many sixth graders would actually be a lot happier doing something that's otherwise currently relegated to a foreign worker? I mean, how much knowledge do you need for some of these jobs? I will say that they do not have particular strength, at which point, if you get rid of mandatory schooling for like sixth grade on up, then you have a short time during which the children learn the most of it with you know basic science, logic, rhetoric, reading, writing, mathematics skills, and then they can get right into whatever workforce they do so desire to. Whatever's local. It could be, well, we don't have newspapers quite so much, but little Amazon deliveries in their neighborhood, or carrying packages, parcel packages here and there, working lawn mowing, things like that. And if you aren't required to pay them a certain wage, they themselves can hunt for the wage that best serves them, and that also puts it in impinges upon the rights of the employers to then think about making a tempting enough offer to get somebody that's still not gonna break your bank, and then it becomes a balancing act, and then fourth, and I think this is a big one, is just the measure of gratitude. I think it's been broken, and now politicians on both sides are waking are working at it to make it even worse, but nobody's actually thankful for the job they have and the work they do and the strength they have to do it, particularly in terms of wages. Why do you think people unionize? Because they are dissatisfied, and it can be dissatisfaction at the dumbest things, it can be dissatisfaction at the right things too. It may be a good idea to come against a matter ad hoc, one might say, and deal instead of going with permanent fixture unions like the kind that always corrupt themselves up, and instead you just have a matter that you know we need to bargain about this as a group, but that is not where most of the dissatisfaction comes from. So many people believe they deserve a house, they deserve $20 an hour, they deserve a brand new car. And so few people are grateful for what they get, and that's what the politicians can keep wheedling at in order to drive the minimum wage up, in order to say, hey, stay in school longer, so you can get better education, get a better job, and you know, you don't deserve to do this low-level work, just leave it to the illegals. Okay, so that but that whole thing I think is an issue that has to be dealt with. So yeah, maybe illegal workers are the backbone of American farming, or maybe, just maybe, the problem for this, the problem that caused this, is so much bigger and will be solved by just taking away a few regulations that keep a primary and interested workforce from doing the work that's there to do. Cheers.