LifeZette: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Thursday dismantled a maxim that has become an article of faith among mass-immigration advocates: that foreign-born residents work the jobs Americans won’t do.
That oft-repeated claim was one of the primary reasons Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) offered Wednesday when he came out against Cotton’s bill to cut legal immigration. Appearing on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Cotton called that “emotional and opinionated, and yet uninformed.”
To dispute the claim, Cotton turned to a simple fact — Americans already are working the jobs Americans supposedly will not do.
“I’m not aware of any job that an American won’t do,” he said, pointing to data from the Labor Department. “The facts are native-born Americans make up the majority in every single industry in this country.”
Not only the claim factually wrong, it is a slight to hard-working Americans, Cotton said. MORE
The only job that people aren’t willing to do is Member of Congress. These assholes are getting paid more than I will ever see, and STILL most of them won’t do the work.
I guarantee if you take away their welfare, obama phones, EBT cards, and all the other handouts the parasites receive and you will have people that realize they have to work.
Apples are now a dollar plus each, somebody is making a whole lotta money, it ain’t the pickers.
The pro invasion politicians never finish the sentence.
There are jobs Americans won’t do….
for the substandard wage being offered by the employer.
Here’s why this argument is bull shit and beneficial if they don’t work the jobs. Think back when the industrial revolution was taking place and our economy was moving from Ag to Industrial. Everyone left the farm for the cities so the farmers were forced to mechanize. Which created a whole new industry. The same things happening right now in the fast food industry.
Scientists prefer Members of Congress for experimentation because they will do things rats won’t do.
It’s not that immigration criminals do the work that Americans won’t do; they do the work for which Americans don’t want to pay minimum wage. I buy shirts made in China for $10 each because I don’t want to buy US union-made shirts for $50 each.
Pull the plug on welfare, problem solved.
Only the guys and dolls with weekly mani/pedi appointments and “staff” would imagine there are jobs an American will not do. Sometimes, gasp!, Americans even do some of those jobs for free, as in charity for a needy neighbor or with others in a neighborhood effort.
I hope the young entrepreneur with the lawn service who will be cutting the rose garden lawn, inspires people his age to think about the kinds of jobs that need doing and how they can do them. We’ve lost a couple-three generations of people who, because of employment regulation, haven’t had the opportunity to get their hands dirty and break a sweat. I think an entire generation still believes all you have to do is invent the next Microsoft, Google or Amazon in your garage.
Bring back the bean, berry and apple-picking buses. I was picking strawberries and beans when I was about 8 years old (with my older sibs) and it was a great way to raise Christmas money.
Worked some miserable jobs offset by great pay. Works every time.
@joe6pak August 4, 2017 at 2:40 pm
I’m not even cognitively privileged, and that burns.
@aleon August 4, 2017 at 3:47 pm
Sorry, aleon, didn’t see you there. Here’s yer sign.
Great and absolutely correct comment about picking. At 13 I went to visit relatives in a farming state for the summer, they had me up driving a tractor to plow the fields. Awesome experience which caused a whole lot of maturing to occur, “put hair on my chest” you might say.
Carter Using congressmen because they do things rats won’t, also because they never worry the scientists will grow attached to them.
Fuckin A, Cotton!
Dianny hit it on the head. Our phucking congress should all be out of a job until they get to work.
Condescending & insulting covers about %95 of politicians.