Any politicians who refuse to support the American worker should be in need of new jobs themselves
Mike Cutler
An article in New Jersey’s Star Ledger addresses a major issue where illegal aliens are concerned: the practice of hiring illegal aliens willing to do the work Americans should be doing but are unable to do because the illegal alien workforce is willing to accept substandard wages, no benefits, and often dangerous conditions that in and of themselves are illegal.
The Carpenter’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2396 employers.My dad was a construction worker and a plumber. During the Second World War he was deemed to be “4F” due to flat feet and a double hernia and was rejected by the military, although he made a number of attempts to enlist. Driven by his profound patriotism for America, he decided that his best opportunity to support our nation’s war efforts would come by working in the naval shipyards, repairing the various warships that had suffered damage in the war. He worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and traveled to other such shipyards around the country during the Second World War.
Dad passed away from lung cancer while I was a college student, but I recall many evenings seeing him come home, upset because he had been laid off from work. I witnessed the look of concern etched in both his and my mother’s eyes. As a construction worker, he was only paid for the hours he worked and being laid off meant that he would receive no paycheck. My memories of those moments make me understand something that those elitist politicians can’t: the way that Blue Collar Americans, the backbone of this nation, are getting clobbered by the hiring practices of unprincipled employers who know that they have virtually nothing to fear where the hiring of illegal aliens is concerned. When President Bush declares that “illegal aliens do the work Americans aren’t doing,” he conveniently leaves out the other half of that statement – that they cannot afford to take those jobs any longer because the wages have been slashed.
How many workers today are coming home with that same look of despair because they have lost their jobs to illegal aliens?
How many homeowners are paying hefty fees for jobs that are substandard at best? Day laborers do not have the skill or experience of tradesmen. It is not even a contest where quality of work is concerned. The greedy employers get to pocket lots of extra money, their customers get substandard work, and American workers are losing their jobs and their ability to provide for their families.
Part of Homer Hickam’s eulogy for the miners of the Sago Mine disaster just over two years ago in West Virginia is appropriate here: “There is no sweat holier than the sweat off a man’s brow!” The autobiography of his life as a coal miner’s son in West Virginia in the 1950s, Rocket Boys, became a movie, October Sky. It is a movie all children should see at least once. Hickam wasn’t much of an athlete and had no desire to follow his dad’s career in the coal mines. Back then, the only way out of the small mining town in which he grew up was to get a football scholarship. While in high school, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik. This sparked a flame in his heart that caused him to build model rockets. Ultimately he won a scholarship by winning a science fair and went on to become an engineer for NASA and work on the Space Shuttle.
Today there are still Americans who trudge off to work in coal mines and steel foundries. There are Americans who drive garbage trucks and, like my dad, work on constructions sites. These Americans do back-breaking, dirty and dangerous jobs each and every day. Americans will still do any job provided that their paychecks can support them and their families. Americans are not lazy or soft. The politicians who exhibit such contempt for those hard working Americans should hang their heads in shame. And, any politicians who refuse to support the American worker should be in need of new jobs themselves!
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