Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There were at the start of this year something like 2 million Afghan refugees in the countries on its borders, primarily in Iran.

 

Jesus' message to his followers. Ignored when it becomes inconvenient, common practice among the faithful.

In 1910, 14.7% of the US population was foreign born, including two of my grandparents (the other two were first generation American). Many immigrants did hard, dangerous work, and contributed to a rapidly growing economy.

Pew reports that 13.7% of the population today is foreign born. As immigration policymakers have clamped down at the border, Employers are complaining that jobs are going unfilled. Many if not most of the dairy farms in my state are staffed with Hispanic immigrants. The local bakery is Hispanic. It's hard to get to work at 3 a.m., and the old German bakers who used to do it have died off.

Getting to the Rio Grande from Guatemala is no picnic. It takes gumption, probably more than my ancestors required to get here. That kind of backbone could make this a better country.

And, given a choice, many if not most Hispanic immigrants would prefer to remain in their own countries if they could. How about we (the US) devote some attention to the conditions that are driving them north? Most of them are of our making.

 

Yeah, I’m vacationing in Traverse City and every place I walk into has a sign apologizing for its bad service due to staffing shortages. Seems to me having millions more people willing to cross a dangerous border to a country full of aging Baby Boomers and desperate for hard workers could be really useful right now.

What a trick Reaganites pulled on all of us. Destroyed wages and unions, replaced workers with immigrant workers, then decried the very immigrants they used to replace American workers. And for a final cherry on top blamed the immigrant influx on the Democrats.

Our version we’ve concocted in America of capitalism doesn’t work without cheap workers. We’re stuck here.

 

I’m not begrudging those translators a thing. Bring em to America. If there’s a poll on it I’m guessing it enjoys widespread support.

 

So tired of those News Corp asshats

 

Have been in Va. Beach for a few days for work/pleasure and the place we went to last night had a banner begging for people's patience because they're short staffed.

 

It would be nice if we could correct this, though.

 

FIFY

 

If I were to walk into a restaurant with a banner like that, I'd ask the manager why doesn't she limit the number of tables being served, instead of expect her customers to have a lesser experience at the same price? Then, I'd walk out.

 

how embarrassing for the media

 

I mean, I get your point, but this is a restaurant/raw bar in a tourist town that is barely scraping by as it is. They'd be done if they cut capacity.