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The American Dream Slipping Away from the Middle Class
Commentary by Frosty Wooldridge
October 25, 2004
In 1979, American meat packing plant workers earned $17.10 per hour with
benefits doing the jobs that Americans, today, reportedly, “won’t do.”
In 2004, illegal aliens fill the same jobs at $9.00 an hour with no
benefits. They work the jobs that Americans won’t do! Because of
indentured servitude wages, they also live 20 to a house and park five
cars to a yard!
However, they’re moving into trades Americans used to do. With an added
three million illegal aliens crossing our borders annually according to
Time Magazine, September 12, 2004, “Who Left the Door Open?” there won’t
be any jobs Americans “won’t do”—because there won’t be any jobs left
that American middle class workers can do.
In Business Week’s May report, “Working and Poor,” by Michelle Conlin
and Aaron Berstein, “In today’s cutthroat job market, the bottom rung is
as high as most workers will ever get.”
Edward Plesniak, 36, lost his $10.68 an hour union job as a janitor when
the contractor hired illegal alien labor. Plesniak earns $6.00 an hour
with no benefits as a floor waxer.
As globalization quickens, the unskilled American worker suffers growing
obstacles for a living wage. Not only is he competing with one million
legal aliens added to the workforce annually in America, he/she must
contend with three million illegal alien workers. Plesniak suffers with
millions of Americans. That doesn’t include the 15 million unemployed
Americans! It’s an aspect of Third World Momentum.
More distressing, America’s trades stomach an endless invasion of
‘willing workers’ depressing wages while taking jobs away from Americans
across the board. Where are they coming from? “Some estimate as many
as 95 percent of dry wall tapers represented by Chicago’s painter’s
union are Mexican,” Geoff Dougherty, Chicago Tribune, reported. “They
come from El Fresnito, Mexico.”
Chicago’s unions serving bricklayers and carpenters are being taken over
by Mexicans living in this country, illegally. What has it done to
Mexico’s towns? “The main problem is disintegrating families,” said
Humberto Alvarez, president of the county of El Fresnito. “We see
addiction, dropouts and other problems. The moment the father leaves,
the family breaks down.”
While Mexico slathers itself in political grease via Vicente Fox’s
inability to dislodge the corrupt, aristocratic upper class (he’s one of
them), Fox sends 9.2 million of his poorest countrymen into America to
grab the American Dream right out of the hands of Middle Class workers.
His plan works, too. Fox’s drone workers return $15 billion annually
which is the second leading revenue for his nation’s coffers. All
totaled, illegals send $56 billion back to home countries annually. In
the meantime, America’s Middle Class spends $7.4 billion educating an
estimated 1.3 million illegal alien children. Additionally, Americans
pay for health care, free lunch programs, housing assistance and
language classes. Furthermore, American taxpayers contend with the $120
billion annual drug trade crossing over Mexico’s borders, aided by their
military, which addicts millions of American kids. Not a bad deal for
Fox and Mexico’s ruling class.
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10399.shtml
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