Francis Porretto at it again
Mr Porretto had a post two days ago, that has had me thinking for all that time.
I have done a LOT of work in a LOT of places all over north America where a huge portion of the workforce is mexican. Sleep on Martha Stewart sheets? Buy knockdown bookcases? have your house drywalled? Mexicans all over the place.
Nobody is gonna take those jobs. In Naperville Illinois, or Lagrange, Illinois, not one child of parents making $400k a year is gonna go out and mow lawns for minimum wage.
The core of this problem is that we have a clear cut (though ostensibly secret) caste system. We claim to be above the idea of caste, but the fact is, there’s a whole culture of underclass doing everything from changing the sheets at Super 8 motels to mowing the lawns at your office complex.
Face it: The land of the free and the home of the brave exists in no small part because of the hard work and dedication of the undeserving underclass. In our defense as a nation, all of that underclass has the ability to better itself, and some do. As they assimilate into the culture, and a lot do, they also bring family values that are, in a lot of our class, obsolete. They have a strong sense of family and it shows in the way they live. Are you anxious to have your grandmother move in with you? To the mexicans I know, it’s a matter of fact.
Rather than shout “learn the language or get out” or try the impossible task of deporting the whole lot of them, maybe we need to recognize the existence of that class. Develop standards for their pay and benefits. Is it fair to have one set of standards for one group and another for some people just because of their immigration status? maybe not. But, that’s what we have NOW. it’s just illegal. And it’s illegality is completely uninforceable in any meaningful way.
No, I don’t know the answers. I want the borders closed, that’s for sure. I also know that if you take out the greymarket labor, it fucks up America as we know it for a very long time.
