I’ve cited a CATO study before (they’re not liberal) first generation immigrants produce much more economically than non-college educated (native) whites. Perhaps the focus in America needs to shift from demonizing brown people to the complete and utter moral collapse of non-college educated whites? If you aren’t going to college or learning a trade, what are you doing with your life? They’re not filling the jobs that immigrants are filling.
One of the factory owners in Springfield talked about how the Haitian immigrant workers always showed up on time, worked hard, and weren’t always drunk/high.
I wish I had 30 more. Our Haitian associates come to work every day. They don't have a drug problem. They will stay at their machine. They will achieve their numbers. They are here to work. And so, in general, that's a stark difference from what were used to in our community.
Obviously, he’d had some bad experiences before. Non-college/trade school educated whites have Gotta do something other than bitch about immigrants and suck off the government teet until they eventually blow their heads off with guns or die of OD. The older I get the more I see their plight as a moral Issue, not an economic one. They just shouldn’t see certain jobs as being “beneath them.” Nor should they be so damn lazy. My grandparents made two major moves in their lives, 1) to escape the dust bowl to California 2) to retain their jobs with the army, they left the Bay Area to work at the Tooele Army Depot. I’m sure they missed their friends and family in the Midwest to start new lives in California. And I’m sure moving from the Napa Valley to Tooele in the 1960s as non-Mormons must’ve been a shock. And if you go far enough back, I’m sure my ancestors hated leaving Italy to start a new life here. I’m sure leaving it was difficult for my mom’s ancestors to settle upstate New York, convert to Mormonism, and then travel all over Missouri, Illinois, and settle in Utah (one of my ancestors buried his wife and newborn in Wyoming). But non-lazy people have been re-inventing themselves and moving to where jobs and opportunity are since the dawn of time.
To see many in america whine about being victims while doing nothing to improve their situation really bugs me. Too much entitlement, its origins coming from the collapse of reconstruction when poor whites relied on their skin color to feel superior despite being just as poor as many immigrants and newly freed blacks. Our country is seeing incredible wealth and prosperity. If you’re “stuck” in some dumpster fire of a town, try moving out. Try going to school. Improve your situation. Don’t just bitch about it and hope a strongman fixes everything by deporting people who actually are trying to improve themselves and the communities they live in.
Springfield, Ohio, is at the center of one of the most fraught issues in this election. GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance wrote that “Haitian illegal immigrants” are “draining social services and generally causing chaos.” Springfield has seen its population grow by over 20 percent in four...
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