Businesses Laying Off American Workers, Hiring Immigrants: Here's how your government is "looking out for you" if you're an American worker; you'll notice that it mentions "in addition...

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Here's how your government is "looking out for you" if you're an American worker; you'll notice that it mentions "in addition to the 30 million green cards"............so the Senate's amnesty bill is talking about granting 30 million green cards to immigrants, giving them jobs while laying off Americans, and of course all of those 30 million immigrant worker will need "health care" right ? Not a problemo....we have Obamacare ! I wonder who is going to pay for all of this "health care" for immigrants ? I'm sure many of our resident liberals will be delighted to "fund" a few immigrants?

Sessions: Americans have been Sacrificed in Immigration Debate
Friday, September 13, 2013, 8:03 AM EDT

Sen. Jeff Sessions

In an op-ed published on Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) detailed the impacts the Gang of Eight's immigration bill, S.744, would have on legal immigration numbers and said the interests of all Americans are be pushed aside to satisfy the interests of business and ethnic groups. Sen. Sessions urged the House to completely disavow S.744 and move forward with a plan that would "refocus the immigration debate on the rights, needs, and concerns of U.S. citizens."

House GOP Leadership has said that the Senate-approved amnesty bill is dead on arrival, but Sen. Sessions pointed out that the Gang of Eight's leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer, is optimistic about the House approach. Sen. Sessions said the likely scenario is for the House to pass a series of immigration bills that can then be merged with the Schumer-Rubio-Obama amnesty bill.

But the bulk of Sen. Sessions op-ed focused on the detrimental effects S.744 would have on the labor force by creating dramatic increases in legal immigration levels.

Perhaps the least discussed but most important feature of the Gang of Eights immigration plan is its arrangement with certain business groups to provide them with multiple avenues to avoid hiring U.S. workers by bringing in record numbers of workers from abroad many of whom will be granted permanent residency and thus eventual citizenship.

On top of the 30 million green cards, the Gang of Eights proposal also doubles the number of non-immigrant guest workers admitted each year from approximately 600,000 today to an average of 1.2 million annually over the next decade. In the first year of the bill, due to the inclusion of family members, the number will spike to 1.6 million, with only 7 percent doing agricultural work. The other 93 percent will be hired to fill jobs in virtually every sector, including construction work, nursing, teaching at public schools, driving trucks, heavy equipment operators, mining and manufacturing.

-- Sen. Jeff Sessions, "Need to help Americans find jobs, not replace them using immigration policy"

Sen. Sessions goes on to discuss the current situation that many Americans face, including high unemployment, declining wages, and an increased dependence on social welfare programs. He mentions how the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office admits that S.744 would make a bad situation even worse.

The Congressional Budget Office confirms the Senate bill would not only increase unemployment but would reduce wages for a dozen years. How can Congress justify moving any proposal that will cause such damage to struggling U.S. workers? ... It is clear from its analysis that the Senates proposed increase in guest workers will be a driving force in future illegal immigration, with millions overstaying their visas. Why should we expect any different?

Second part;

THIS ISSUE: Big Business pushes Congress for more foreign workers while laying off Americans

The Big Business lobby stepped up its game earlier this week when human resource officers from more than 100 large corporations sent a letter to House Leadership pushing for an immigration bill that would grant a blanket amnesty and provide dramatic increases in the number of work permits given to new foreign workers each year. It coincided with a "Day of Action" organized by FWD.us - the organization co-founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
A few of the companies that signed the letter included: General Electric, Disney, Marriott, Hilton, McDonalds, Wendy's, Coca-Cola, Cheesecake Factory, Cisco, and Verizon.

Last week's monthly unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics depicted a declining situation for American workers. More than half a million working-aged Americans left the labor force, raising the total number to more than 90 million. Plus, a slightly better report from July was revised to show that only 104,000 new jobs were created that month compared to the 162,000 jobs first thought. In June, BLS reported that 195,000 jobs had been created, but last week's report revised the number down to 172,000.
Compare those new job numbers with the 125,000 new work permits issued each month to foreign workers.

Looking at just the sampling of companies that signed onto this week's letter, many fall into service occupations, including retail, food service, and hospitality. And yet, according the August jobs report, the unemployment rate for Americans who consider themselves in the service industry is 8.4% - more than a full percentage point above the national rate. In production and transportation (an industry Coca-Cola might fall into), the unemployment rate is at 8.5%.
As Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) pointed out this week in an op-ed published for The Hill, there's a huge disconnect between business and the labor market. He wonders why so many in Congress are so eager to pass a bill that puts the interests of the business community, illegal aliens, and millions of foreign citizens ahead of the American people. Read more on this op-ed here.

Byron York, a political columnist for the Washington Examiner, also noted that many of the businesses that signed onto the letter have laid off thousands of workers in recent years. He notes that Hewlett-Packard laid off 29,000 employees just last year. Now they want more foreign workers. Cisco has already laid off 8,000 employees and announced plans to lay off 4,000 more. They want more foreign workers. Marriott has announced that they're laying off "thousands" of workers. They, too, want more foreign workers.

Why many in Congress choose to ignore these facts is unknown, but with your help, we'll help them see the full picture. We've posted new faxes on your Action Board to send to your Three Members of Congress. These faxes tell your Members about Byron York's article and attaches a copy of the article to the fax. Please visit your Action Board today and send these faxes!

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Gitzo UH wrote:

Here's how your government is "looking out fo... (show quote)

I wonder who is going to pay for all of this "health care" for immigrants ?
I have explained it all here.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-143297-1.html
It's called "THE BIG MELTING POT"
It's makes money
And there tying up the loose ends. :roll:
about Coca Cola, if they need a more diverse population of races as employees then somebody has figured a way to make more money.
:hunf:
IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY :thumbup:

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

Although signing a letter by major corporations is new, the practice has been going on for years. E-verify is a joke. Lost several thousand illegals here due to lower amount of available jobs, but they are slowly trickling back. We are being over run and wages keep going down. Instead of the example to the world for decent wages, we are becoming them. Corporations love it. We hear " they are such hard workers". If you are in fear of being deported, it is a great motivator to allow your workplace rights to be trampled. The answer of who pays for health care is obvious. I have no problem entering legally, what is killing our country is legal citizens are being replaced with illegals in the workplace. Minimum wages or less, no benefits, no rights. What's not to like from an employer's view?

pjreed Loc: Tonopah, Arizona

The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station furloughs it's contract workers the last two weeks in December every year now for the last 3 years. You have to reapply for your job in January and when hired back it is with less wages.

The bonus for the top two honchos there came to $20 million in 2012.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

Considering the bill does not call for 30 million green cards the rest of this horse pucky is just that horse pucky!

ole sarg Loc: south florida

Considering the bill does not call for 30 million green cards the rest of this horse pucky is just that horse pucky!

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Gitzo UH wrote:

Here's how your government is "looking out fo... (show quote)

I say give the immigrants jobs and we citizens can stop working and collect aid and see how they feel. They get the jobs, pay taxes, buy medical insurance and we can kick back and have the good life - maybe even take an under the table job too.

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

ole sarg wrote:

Considering the bill does not call for 30 million green cards the rest of this horse pucky is just that horse pucky!

Here we have an imbecile who obviously is unable to make a post without doing it twice, then expects there will be people ignorant enough to pay any attention to his mindless jabbering. Have at it ole sargie, you're the best example we have of a blithering idiot.

If someone were to post something by Albert Einstein, you could rest assured that "ole sargie" would pipe up and say it's BS from the "right wing"!

BTW, dim-bulb......maybe you could point us to something "meaningful" that YOU'VE posted since you're been here ?

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

When a large corporation's most effective means of doing business successfully is to buy a bunch of politicians, there is something wrong! There is no legal reason for corporations to be running this country, and it should not be economically beneficial to do so. Many large companies have huge bundles of cash lying dormant because an adversary government takes all the benefit out of investing in growth, which would lead to higher employment. Most notably, Boeing (based in Seattle) built an entire factory on the east coast in a "right-to-work" state so they could legally employ lower priced workers; the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prevented them from doing so AFTER the entire factory was built on property they had already purchased.

Workers are allowing their unions, and the NLRB to kill their jobs by removing their competitiveness. A guy who makes $25 an hour is costing his employer over $75 an hour in wages, taxes, FICA matching, health insurance and pension funding, among other things. That's $600 a day! How can an ordinary person be worth $600 a day? No wonder most durable goods are made in other countries! The unions certainly have helped eliminate corporate abuse of labor, but perhaps by now they have helped too much.

I remember my Dad, working in the 1950's. The only way he ever got a raise was to get a promotion, and start doing a more valuable job. He didn't get a raise just by being there another year, he had to actually be worth more to this employer. And if he wanted to save for his retirement, it was his choice, and his effort to do so. His employer had nothing to do with it (outside of SS).

Now fast-food workers want a "living wage" by virtue of spending 40 of their hours at the workplace each week, whether or not they are actually worth that much. And if the employer is paying the worker $15 an hour, he's actually spending somewhere near $35 an hour to have that worker on the payroll. How many burgers does in take to generate $35 an hour in profit? Not to mention overhead and raw materials, etc.

Now throw in some 11 million illegal aliens, and you have a massive train wreck.

pjreed Loc: Tonopah, Arizona

Danilo wrote:

When a large corporation's most effective means of doing business successfully is to buy a bunch of politicians, there is something wrong! There is no legal reason for corporations to be running this country, and it should not be economically beneficial to do so. Many large companies have huge bundles of cash lying dormant because an adversary government takes all the benefit out of investing in growth, which would lead to higher employment. Most notably, Boeing (based in Seattle) built an entire factory on the east coast in a "right-to-work" state so they could legally employ lower priced workers; the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prevented them from doing so AFTER the entire factory was built on property they had already purchased.

Workers are allowing their unions, and the NLRB to kill their jobs by removing their competitiveness. A guy who makes $25 an hour is costing his employer over $75 an hour in wages, taxes, FICA matching, health insurance and pension funding, among other things. That's $600 a day! How can an ordinary person be worth $600 a day? No wonder most durable goods are made in other countries! The unions certainly have helped eliminate corporate abuse of labor, but perhaps by now they have helped too much.

I remember my Dad, working in the 1950's. The only way he ever got a raise was to get a promotion, and start doing a more valuable job. He didn't get a raise just by being there another year, he had to actually be worth more to this employer. And if he wanted to save for his retirement, it was his choice, and his effort to do so. His employer had nothing to do with it (outside of SS).

Now fast-food workers want a "living wage" by virtue of spending 40 of their hours at the workplace each week, whether or not they are actually worth that much. And if the employer is paying the worker $15 an hour, he's actually spending somewhere near $35 an hour to have that worker on the payroll. How many burgers does in take to generate $35 an hour in profit? Not to mention overhead and raw materials, etc.

Now throw in some 11 million illegal aliens, and you have a massive train wreck.

When a large corporation's most effective means of... (show quote)

:thumbup:

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

pjreed wrote:

:thumbup:

May I ask the source of your facts? Burden on wages you are quoting seem high.

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

jeep_daddy wrote:

I say give the immigrants jobs and we citizens can stop working and collect aid and see how they feel. They get the jobs, pay taxes, buy medical insurance and we can kick back and have the good life - maybe even take an under the table job too.

Now that is a thought....then we get to see how the libs take care of the conservatives. I bet when they figure out that is what is happening they'll change their tune about "helping the poor".

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

Danilo wrote:

When a large corporation's most effective means of doing business successfully is to buy a bunch of politicians, there is something wrong! There is no legal reason for corporations to be running this country, and it should not be economically beneficial to do so. Many large companies have huge bundles of cash lying dormant because an adversary government takes all the benefit out of investing in growth, which would lead to higher employment. Most notably, Boeing (based in Seattle) built an entire factory on the east coast in a "right-to-work" state so they could legally employ lower priced workers; the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prevented them from doing so AFTER the entire factory was built on property they had already purchased.

Workers are allowing their unions, and the NLRB to kill their jobs by removing their competitiveness. A guy who makes $25 an hour is costing his employer over $75 an hour in wages, taxes, FICA matching, health insurance and pension funding, among other things. That's $600 a day! How can an ordinary person be worth $600 a day? No wonder most durable goods are made in other countries! The unions certainly have helped eliminate corporate abuse of labor, but perhaps by now they have helped too much.

I remember my Dad, working in the 1950's. The only way he ever got a raise was to get a promotion, and start doing a more valuable job. He didn't get a raise just by being there another year, he had to actually be worth more to this employer. And if he wanted to save for his retirement, it was his choice, and his effort to do so. His employer had nothing to do with it (outside of SS).

Now fast-food workers want a "living wage" by virtue of spending 40 of their hours at the workplace each week, whether or not they are actually worth that much. And if the employer is paying the worker $15 an hour, he's actually spending somewhere near $35 an hour to have that worker on the payroll. How many burgers does in take to generate $35 an hour in profit? Not to mention overhead and raw materials, etc.

Now throw in some 11 million illegal aliens, and you have a massive train wreck.

When a large corporation's most effective means of... (show quote)

Nicely stated! :thumbup:

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

Danilo wrote:

When a large corporation's most effective means of doing business successfully is to buy a bunch of politicians, there is something wrong! There is no legal reason for corporations to be running this country, and it should not be economically beneficial to do so. Many large companies have huge bundles of cash lying dormant because an adversary government takes all the benefit out of investing in growth, which would lead to higher employment. Most notably, Boeing (based in Seattle) built an entire factory on the east coast in a "right-to-work" state so they could legally employ lower priced workers; the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prevented them from doing so AFTER the entire factory was built on property they had already purchased.

Workers are allowing their unions, and the NLRB to kill their jobs by removing their competitiveness. A guy who makes $25 an hour is costing his employer over $75 an hour in wages, taxes, FICA matching, health insurance and pension funding, among other things. That's $600 a day! How can an ordinary person be worth $600 a day? No wonder most durable goods are made in other countries! The unions certainly have helped eliminate corporate abuse of labor, but perhaps by now they have helped too much.

I remember my Dad, working in the 1950's. The only way he ever got a raise was to get a promotion, and start doing a more valuable job. He didn't get a raise just by being there another year, he had to actually be worth more to this employer. And if he wanted to save for his retirement, it was his choice, and his effort to do so. His employer had nothing to do with it (outside of SS).

Now fast-food workers want a "living wage" by virtue of spending 40 of their hours at the workplace each week, whether or not they are actually worth that much. And if the employer is paying the worker $15 an hour, he's actually spending somewhere near $35 an hour to have that worker on the payroll. How many burgers does in take to generate $35 an hour in profit? Not to mention overhead and raw materials, etc.

Now throw in some 11 million illegal aliens, and you have a massive train wreck.

When a large corporation's most effective means of... (show quote)

Sorry that I replied to wrong post. Would you mind sharing the source for your data for wages that you posted? Some of it seems pretty high in relationship to actual hourly rate. Would be interested in seeing where these employees worked. Thanks