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I'd be shocked if it made any difference. Any car maker coming back to the US to start production is going to be somewhere in the South where unions are weak and right to work laws are everywhere. The old factories are dinosaurs and factory legacy is one of our huge disadvantages compared to China et al. I agree we need to make things here, but we don't need to make everything here and would be better served applying limited labor to future tech than making wagon wheels. It may sound harsh to say it but non-tech American workers are pathetic compared to the rest of the developing world. In my area Mexicans and other Central Americans that do "labor" work - construction, landscaping, basic factory work, etc - run circles around the natives. Americans have had it too good for too long and at the bottom rungs are not hungry, they're bitter, resentful and expect others to take care of them. We need good jobs here for sure for people who are not college educated, and we shouldn't be sending everyone to college anyway as it's a waste of time and money, but we also need a total reset of the working labor force ethos. Before I retired, you couldn't give away entry level water system jobs despite the great benefits; these guys wouldn't do the jobs for $20/hr even with no experience required. I hired a lot of people in my career and my favorite part about retiring was not having to find one decent warm body to fill important jobs among a thousand deadbeats. Maybe if we started letting people starve in the street again the hunger ethos would return.
One of the most arrogant things I have read in quite a while. Kids today are bombarded with talk about how entitled they are, how their achievements have an asterisk, it is like this is being done to them on purpose. The kids I know are full of potential the generations before them including mine (Gen X) have completely thrown them under the bus. I hate judging groups but if you want to look at an entitled group look at the boomers. By and large they grew up in intact families in communities with deep roots most had opportunities kids today can only dream of as far as building wealth or starting a family.
As a landscaper of 10 years before I retired out of that business I hired many mexicans they aren't supermen or they are as big a piece of **** as everybody else, LOL. I hired Mexican guys that could come up to America work their *** off for 2-3 years go home and buy a 50 acer ranch on the ocean. No American kid hanging drywall, laying sod or framing a house will ever have that opportunity. And to rub salt in their elder, richer, citizens look down their noses and mock them.
50 acres of oceanfront land, lol?.....C'mon now.
🤣 No doubt James; Mr. Bilderback has a personal grudge with me which is why such claims are made. He wants to complain about the very guys he hired working like hell, saving all their money and then going back to Mexico to live large. Why hire them at all then? The worst kept secret in the world is that immigrants work 10x harder than any of our entitled citizens want to work. You think the roofers and lawn care guys around me hire Mexicans because they like them? 😂 I live where people would love to see everyone from Central and South America deported - except when they need to have some labor work done.
They are hired because yes, many of them are hard workers and good people, blah blah blah. But more importantly they are willing to work for the kind of wages that you can only afford to stack 6 of them in a three bedroom home, many times they have no family stateside so you can work them all day everyday. Americans want a higher standard of living. If an American could work all day as a laborer and pay to have a home and a family then America would have all the workers it could ever want. Nothing personal towards you (I agree with most of what you say (other then politics, LOL).
My passion is our nation's calculation should not be who will work the hardest for the cheapest so owners of assets can make more, it should be how do we ensure American citizens have the opportunity and enough to prosperity to afford having a family and meaning for their own lives. Prioritizing a country where our kids are able to own assets, start families, create strong communities watch out because these new generations will be unstoppable which would be great for the entire world.