The situation is bad. I deal with it daily.
Everyone has to go to college and allegedly all 130,000 illegals that came across last month are going to do those jobs.. Right?
Wrong.
. This problem I’ve seen increasing for years. When I was a 1st year apprentice you could work your butt off and actually climb the ladder to improve your lifestyle. You could also get by starting a family and being able to support them off of your work ethic and not living on the entitlement system. Republicans are just as much to blame for the situation we are in as democrats. As the illegal alien flow continued in the early nineties the trade standards were lowered to meet the ability of the illegal labor force. So now the number of true craftsman is limited and can’t keep up with the volume of work available. No young Americans are coming into the trades because of the depressed wages that the illegals have brought about. I wouldn’t recommend any young person getting into a trade if they can find anything else. And this is coming from a person that a trade helped make it out the conditions from a Carter presidency. If we had enforced nation wide e-verify then I could see the trades improving.
