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10-05-2011, 06:12 PM   #1
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Alabama loses workers as immigration law takes effect

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Alabama's strict new immigration law was touted as a job creation bill, a way to force illegal workers out of jobs and open them up for legal residents. Early indications are the plan is backfiring.

The law is driving away many construction workers, roofers and field hands who do backbreaking jobs Americans generally won't. So far, few legal residents have stepped in to fill any of the vacancies, creating an absence that will surely deal a blow to the state's economy and could slow the rebuilding of Tuscaloosa and other tornado-damaged cities.
Ala. loses workers as immigration law takes effect - US news - Life - msnbc.com

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Oh new jobs openned for US citizens but the lazy useless MFers would rather sit on their asses watching Oprah and collect some form of public assistence than go put in an honest days work. Bunch of lazy POS think they are too good to get dirty and earn a living. Alabama needs to pass welfare reform as part 2 of the plan. The jobs will fill if those who are able to work stop getting paid not to work.
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I don't think Oprah is on anymore, so.
What's the salary?
Hours?
How about working conditions?
Are proper tools and clothing and training provided. Or is that out of pocket?
Air conditioning? It gets hot in Bama.
It said something about "back breaking", so hows the health care plan and workers comp?
If it's skilled trades, hows the union down there?
That guy in the leather vest looks like he could use a little hard work too.
Are golf outings to St Andrews included?
Tax free $1,000 lunches?
Free stock options?
A few insider tips?
Wait--------what?
Those last few are what those lazy useless POS MFers on wallstreet welfare get. So we won't do thing about them eh?
They wear Armani.

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If I was an out of work construction worker with my own tools and in a position to move and work in Alabama, I would seriously consider moving there for the work...only problem is that last bit, living in Alabama.

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Georgia's having the same problem.
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QuoteOriginally posted by shooz Quote
What's the salary? Comensorate to productivity
Hours? usually around 40 per
How about working conditions? hard
Are proper tools and clothing and training provided. Or is that out of pocket?I've never had an employer provide my tools
Air conditioning? It gets hot in Bama. Sweating is ok , remember before AC?
It said something about "back breaking", so hows the health care plan and workers comp?varries from state to state
If it's skilled trades, hows the union down there?roofers local OU812
That guy in the leather vest looks like he could use a little hard work too.
Someone has to be the forman
Why do so manyAmericans look down on blue collar work?
A good friend raised his kids working as a roofer.
I sweat in the Summer and shivver in the Winter to provide for my family and get dirty every day too. Very different than what my degree said I should be doing.
My brother in law has done very well in the industrial cleaning business.
My Dad finished his college ed on the GI Bill and fed us by working as a plumbers helper when they dug ditches and cesspools by hand. He retired as the comptroller of an Ivy League university. Until a few years ago he could still move more dirt with a shovel than most 20 year olds.
There is honor in hard work but none in being able and unwilling.
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I did all that too, and get nothing but dissed by "right wingers" for it.
Called names for my point of view.
I also supported a disabled wife for over 30 years on one paycheck-----------------------You would be surprised how much that really costs and WE got screwed by the for profit health system and in taxes.
Why should health care and workers comp vary? There is NO reason for that. NONE!
My father got his pension stolen by a corporation and worked till he died.
There may be personal honor in hard work, but it generally goes unrewarded.
My hands and back being screwed up are part of my reward, for throwing iron in 106 heat and chipping ice off of forgings.
I likely saved lives by refusing to accept poorly machined parts that a supervisor wanted to send to assembly.
That was a constant fight. Never heard a word of thanks.

Every supervisor I ever asked, said he became one out of laziness. Every one of them. Feared hard work.
The guy in the vest looks as lazy as they come. Except maybe, for those lazy, shiftless, POS, MFres that try to run the world from their boardrooms on wallstreet.
Sucking the value out of people and the planet.
It was them who created the need for a welfare state.
Accept that, because it's true.

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