Questioning the Morality of Displacing American Workers
Questioning the Morality of Displacing American Workers
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:13 AM
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In a new article by Frosty Wooldridge an essay I authored was mentioned:
"Displaced Americans" was published in a 2006 pamphlet titled: "The Ethics of
Immigration Policy".
The essay was very short because it had to fit into a pocket sized pamphlet,
so it lacked detail. In this newsletter I will discuss in further detail a
comparison of the situation that caused the riots in France with the powder
keg that is just waiting to explode in the U.S.
In France, Muslims from Africa were imported for several generations by using
a temporary guest worker program. These cheap laborers were in theory
temporary, but in practice many of them stayed either legally or illegally.
France gave most of the early guest workers citizenship and welcomed their
families also. It was the French version of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
BLECH!
The French government vowed to make sure that all of the immigrants that
stayed permanently would go through assimilation programs, but for many of
them that never happened. Due to budget cuts and indifference the French
government didn't follow through on their promises, and the truth is that many
of the Muslims had no intention of changing their loyalty to France.
Instead of assimilating, the immigrant laborers were isolated into slums
around major cities such as Paris. The population of angry Muslims began to
swell.
In addition to the guest workers there was a growing flow of illegal
immigrants from Arab countries into France. Unemployment rose most
dramatically among the youngest age groups who were typically second or third
generation French citizens. Muslim communities transformed into large
populations of disenfranchised people who had no real stake in the success of
the country and who grew desperately poor. It was a perfect formula for social
unrest.
The result: riots broke out in 2005. Sporadic violence has continued ever
since. One of the main factors driving the civil unrest is youth unemployment,
which surpassed the 20% level in 2005.
Hopefully the U.S. doesn't follow France's example, but if unemployment was a
major factor in the riots in France then we had better prepare for the same
thing here. That's because in the U.S. the unemployment rate of young American
minorities is rising far above the levels that sparked violence in France. The
situation has deteriorated considerably since I wrote that essay in 2006. To
see just how dire the situation is, here are some quick stats from the BLS:
Non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates vs. age range and year
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm
group year 2006 2009
blacks 16-19 33% 47%
Hispanic 16-19 22% 43%
all 16-19 5% 10%
blacks 20-24 17% 28%
Hispanic 20-24 18% 28%
all 20-24 9% 18%
blacks -- African American
Hispanic -- Hispanic or Latino
all -- all race groups combined
Folks, look at the numbers and you will begin to understand why the U.S. is
sitting on a powder keg! Our young people aren't getting jobs and that's a
formula for unrest -- and violence. In the years since 2006 the unemployment
numbers have worsened. The situation is especially bad for blacks and
Hispanics because they compete directly with illegal aliens for jobs.
Comparing unemployment rates in France and the U.S. may be somewhat erroneous
because the methodologies are probably quite different, but at some point the
fuse to the bomb is going to ignite in the U.S. Rates of unemployment over 20%
are a disaster waiting to happen. Even when whites are factored in the rates
are hovering near 20%.
One thing you can count on is that when the riots break out the mainstream
media will conclude that racism is the cause, not immigration. I'm using
France to foretell our future of course, but consider this written by the
Canadian TV in 2007:
Media accounts of the riots that spread across France in the fall of
2005 lay the blame squarely on a racist society that has
marginalized the children and grandchildren of North African
immigrants.
The entire article is worth reading and it gets quite amusing when the
delusional author explains that riots won't happen in Canada because they are
so much smarter than France. LOL!
So, what is President Obama doing about this impending crisis?
This week the Obama administration has been working hard to roll back e-verify
which is used to guarantee that employers hire those who are in the U.S.
legally. All indications so far are that Obama and the globalists in Congress
are hell-bent on passing amnesty, which will encourage even more immigration
into the U.S. In other words, Obama is exacerbating a very dangerous
situation! Stimulus money isn't going to help the problem unless we start
demanding that all unskilled labor and entry level jobs go to our young people
instead of immigrants and illegal aliens.
As the Boston Globe said:
It is ironic that at the same time that the nation was electing its
first African-American president, it was displacing record numbers
of black men from the ranks of the employed.
That's quite a profound statement, but the authors avoid one of the most
important reasons why so many young black men are unemployed. The Globe came
up with the top four things to do in order to turn this worsening unemployment
situation around and yet they never mention anything about immigration. How
stupid can they be to not see their own set of ironies?
REFERENCES:
http://www.johntanton.org/docs/ethics_of_immigration_policy_final.pdf
The Ethics of Immigration Policy
There is a companion pamphlet called "Common Sense on Mass Immigration"
which you can read by going here:
http://www.commonsenseonmassimmigration.us/
You can purchase copies of these two publications at the Social Contract
Press. They are pocket sized pamplets that are convenient to give to friends
and acquaintices. Go here:
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/bookstore2/index.php
Buy pamphlets
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/krikorian200511170831.asp
L Intifada en Los Estados Unidos, The French riots and us, By Mark Krikorian
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty472.htm
QUESTIONING THE MORALITY OF DISPLACING AMERICAN WORKERS, By Frosty Wooldridge
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/22/a_job_crisis_for_young_black_men/
A job crisis for young black men
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/paris_riots/
France riots -- Understanding the violence
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http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty472.htm
QUESTIONING THE MORALITY OF DISPLACING AMERICAN WORKERS
By Frosty Wooldridge
June 8, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
Today, 15 million American citizens cannot find work. As of June 2009, 32.2
million American citizens subsist on food stamps. (That number is correct!)
This nation staggers under $10.3 trillion debt.
Our Congress supports a $700 billion annual trade deficit. That body of 535
men and women elected to represent the American electorate supports off-
shoring, out-sourcing and in-sourcing of American jobs.
Additionally, President Barack Obama, following in the footsteps of George W.
Bush, supports in excess of 20 million criminal aliens working jobs, at slave
wages, which displace American workers. During his term in office, he hired
Janet Napolitano to head up Homeland Security. She refuses to guard America s
borders from invading criminal migrants.
Since January 20, 2009, Obama failed to enforce immigration laws and failed to
enforce America s borders. Thus, states like California swim in a red sea of
debt. Texas cannot pay its bills. Arizona suffers 57,000 cars being stolen
every year by criminal aliens. MS-13 gang members thrive in 44 states.
Annually, Mexico enjoys $25 Billion in cash transfers by criminal aliens
sending back money from the US.
Total costs of legal and illegal migration, according to economist Edwin
Rubenstein, shows American taxpayers shelling out $346 billion annually to
educate, medicate and incarcerate criminal aliens and their children within
the United States.
In an outstanding commentary, Rob Sanchez, Spring 2007, page 174, questioned
our government s actions: "The morality of displacing American workers."
"Who has the ethical right to balance the supply of labor with the demand for
jobs?" Sanchez said. "The United States government? Other nations?
Employers? Or immigrants looking for jobs?
"Illegal aliens comprise about 50 percent of the annual immigration into the
U.S. As they enter the labor market minorities and unskilled workers at the
bottom end of the pay scale are displaced from the labor force.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, black adults suffer twice the
unemployment rate of whites, while black teens register 35 percent.
For example, Black Americans suffer huge job losses at the hands of criminal
aliens. Terry Anderson, LA talk show host, reported that janitors making
$15.00 an hour 10 years ago suffered undercutting of wages to criminal
Mexicans who worked for under $10.00 an hour.
"Increased joblessness in the U.S. is directly attributable to the large
influxes of immigrants who compete for jobs," Sanchez said. "A study by the
Center for Immigration Studies shows that immigrants are hired for a
disproportionate 66 percent of U.S. jobs, yet they are only 15 percent of the
adult labor force.
"Civil strife in France serves as a warning of how mass immigration and a lack
of assimilation coincides with high unemployment rates amongst teens.
Riots broke out throughout France when unemployment rates approached 20
percent. France s mistake of allowing large-scale immigration of "guest
workers" for cheap labor parallels the follies of current U.S. immigration
policy.
"Rising joblessness swelled in France because the labor market couldn t absorb
the immense influx of family members and children of the immigrant laborers.
Destitute immigrants were shunned into squalid neighborhoods and only
perfunctory efforts were made to assimilate them.
"It s only a matter of time before similar social unrest occurs in the United
States. Unemployment rates of 35 percent are now far higher than the 20
percent that caused widespread riots in France. Indifference to the plight of
needy Americans who lack meaningful employment may lead to far worse problems
than France experienced.
"For the most part legal immigrants compete for middle class jobs. As the
available labor pool expands, wages drop. It s the law of supply and demand.
Tragically, middle class Americans displaced by legal immigrants are often
forced to compete with illegal immigrants in a race to the bottom of the pay
scale."
Unemployment among American blacks rates at an all time high. Additionally,
fatherless children suffer at home, in school and their futures grow dim
without role models.
"U.S. citizens cannot continue to lose jobs to immigrants at the current rates
and expect to maintain their lifestyles," Sanchez said. "During
2000-2004 the number of unemployed Americans swelled by 2.3 million while
almost the same number of immigrants gained employment. The U.S. economy has
not created meaningful employment opportunities for both citizens and all
others.
"Pitting American workers against immigrants for jobs is morally
reprehensible. Controlling immigration is not only the moral thing to do; it
is mandated by our Constitution. Our government must constitutionally ensure
the financial security of its citizens and protect our borders from invasion.
Regulating immigration to serve the needs of our most deserving citizens is
the only ethical choice."
Former president Bush failed us with, "They do the jobs that Americans won t
do." Obama continues failing us with no action against employers of criminal
aliens. Our state governors refuse to lift a hand against the incredible fraud
rampant at every level. Mayors in dozens of cities protect criminal aliens
with Sanctuary City Status" whereby their cops will not arrest nor deport
criminal aliens. That status includes Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix,
Salt Lake, Reno, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York, Miami,
etc. And worst of all, our Congress fails us at every level by not enforcing
our immigration laws against employers.
It s only a matter of time before civil confrontation and riots erupt in
cities across the land where 20 million criminal aliens work the jobs formerly
held by Americans at living wages.
Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews top national
leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots" at www.themicroeffect.com at
6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.
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Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents and
six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published books
include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; "STRIKE THREE!
TAKE YOUR BASE"; "IMMIGRATION S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES";
"MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND--A TEEN NOVEL"; "BICYCLING
AROUND THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION"; "AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
ANTARCTICA." His next book: "TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP."
He lives in Denver, Colorado.
His latest book. IMMIGRATION S UNARMED INVASION--DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.
Website: www.FrostyWooldridge.com
E:Mail: frostyw@juno.com
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/22/a_job_crisis_for_young_black_men/
A job crisis for young black men
By Ron Marlow and Andrew Sum | April 22, 2009
OF THE nearly 5.5 million workers who have lost their jobs in this recession,
a disproportionate share of the losses has been borne by younger workers, men,
those without college degrees, and blue-collar employees. But black males, who
were already shut out of the job market in disproportionate numbers, have
fared the worst, and their labor-market fate has not received the attention it
deserves.
According to the 2007 American Community Survey, the black male unemployment
rate in Massachusetts was already 12.7 percent before the recession, compared
with the overall unemployment rate of only 6.1 percent for the state as a
whole. However, between November 2007 and March 2009, the national decline in
the number of black men with jobs was 660,000, accounting for 82 percent of
the job losses among all black workers. Nearly
9 percent of black men lost jobs over this period, the highest rate of job
loss by far among any gender or race-ethnic group.
The relative size of this loss in employment among black men was the highest
in any of the 11 post-World War II recessions in the United States.
It is ironic that at the same time that the nation was electing its first
African-American president, it was displacing record numbers of black men from
the ranks of the employed.
Similar to the case for male workers generally, the employment declines among
black men have been concentrated among the youngest workers (ages 16-24),
among those with limited formal schooling, and among blue-collar workers. The
lack of adequate employment opportunities among these young black men
contributes to a lack of hope and an increase in despair, which often leads to
rising delinquency, crime, and incarceration. In recent months, only one in
six black teen males has worked, and only 52 percent of
20- to 24-year-old black men held any type of job. Another new record
employment low is being established for these young men.
.
The federal economic stimulus passed by Congress provides an opportunity to
take immediate steps to improve job prospects for these men. First, the state
must seek ways to leverage infrastructure investments to create more jobs in
construction and manufacturing. Second, in order to make these jobs available
to black and young workers, the state should post all job openings on a state
website as well as at the local one stop career centers. Third, where
possible, the state should set aside a portion of the infrastructure monies to
create job training opportunities for these men.
Fourth, the state should continue to build on its past efforts and use WIA
youth monies, available via the federal stimulus package, to create both year
round as well as summer jobs for 16-to-24-year-olds. The focus should continue
on those youth most in need.
In addition, the state should consider a number of policy options and
alternatives that should be adopted to respond to the particular challenges
and barriers faced by African-American and Hispanic males. A variety of
educational, employment, training, and ancillary programs will be needed to
bolster their economic and social well-being.
To explore these issues and to develop viable policy prescriptions that are
responsive to the needs of disproportionately impacted populations, the state
recently formed a Task Force on Black and Hispanic Men. Its primary purpose is
to identify strategies the state can adopt to mitigate the negative employment
experiences of many African Americans and Hispanics.
The economic prospects for young black and Hispanic males will be dependent on
the success of such efforts.
Ron Marlow is assistant secretary for access and opportunity in the Patrick
administration. Andrew Sum is a professor of economics and director of the
Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. Both serve on the
State Task Force on Black and Hispanic Employment.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/paris_riots/
France riots
Understanding the violence
Last Updated Nov. 28, 2007
CBC News
Media accounts of the riots that spread across France in the fall of 2005 lay
the blame squarely on a racist society that has marginalized the children and
grandchildren of North African immigrants.
The violence flared again two years later in neighbourhoods outside Paris,
following the deaths of two teens who were killed in a crash with a police
patrol car in November 2007.
While there is no denying that racism is a factor in these incidents, we need
to dig deeper if we are to understand the violence, immigration experts
believe.
"There are many other factors involved," Jeffrey Reitz, a University of
Toronto sociology professor who studies ethnicity and immigration, told CBC
News Online in the wake of the 2005 riots. "It's not the immigrants, but their
children, who are a very different group of people."
Reitz said that, in general, when immigrants compare their situation in their
adopted country to the life they left behind, they usually find things are
better, even if they are discriminated against. And if things don't improve,
they often have the option of returning home.
"The second generation can't go back as easily and have been told in school
they should be treated equally. When it doesn't happen, there's
disappointment," Reitz said.
Canada's ambassador to France, Claude Laverdure, agreed. "There's a deep
frustration of being seen as immigrants for young people who were born in
France," Laverdure told CBC Newsworld two years ago.
Could it happen in Canada?
While neither Laverdure nor Reitz denied that racism also exists in Canada,
our demographic makeup is different, making such race-based riots less likely.
"The number of second-generation immigrants in Canada is small and the
immigrants' children are still young. In France, those communities have been
there for quite awhile," Reitz said.
And Laverdure said Canada's immigration system differs from France's system in
important ways. "We seek immigrants. We go after people around the world and
welcome them-". France does not have such a policy. They simply inherit
immigrants," he said.
Many of France's immigrants came in the 1950s and '60s from former colonies
such as Algeria, after the collapse of France's African empire.
"They brought them in from the colonies as guest workers to supply the needs
of the booming economy. They were unskilled, mostly male labourers, and they
were eventually joined by their families," Randall Hansen, a University of
Toronto political science professor who studies European immigration, told CBC
News Online.
When industrial jobs disappeared, Hansen said, immigrants couldn't make the
switch to the service economy. "And their children found themselves poorly
adapted to getting jobs. The ethnic minorities concentrated in neighbourhoods
where schools weren't as good-". Social mobility is, sadly, a myth, even in
this part of the world," he said.
Hansen said the Canadian immigrant experience is, by and large, different.
"Canada creams off highly skilled immigrants who are well-equipped to do well.
But we do have doctors working as taxi drivers, so it's not perfect."
A recipe for violence
He said the problems in France are compounded by a kind of ghettoization not
seen elsewhere.
The country's original immigrants most often settled in suburbs just outside
Paris, such as Savigny-sur-Orge and Raincy, forming large African and Arab
communities where unemployment is higher than the national average and
residents complain of racism and discrimination.
But there is something else at work in France that helps explain the level of
disenfranchisement among North African immigrants, Ibrahim Badr, a professor
of French studies at York University in Toronto, told CBC News Online in 2005.
"The weight of family and tradition and historical background certainly
separates them from mainstream French society. It's not just racism. Racism in
France isn't any worse than anywhere else," Badr said.
Hansen added that the problem isn't so much large immigrant communities, but
the conditions in those communities.
"There's nothing wrong with ethnic neighbourhoods. Toronto glories in them, as
they should. But the problem is where you get a combination of ethnic
concentration and poverty and high unemployment," he said.
Bloodshed in the suburbs
And so conditions were ripe for violence in France's immigrant suburbs when
two teenagers of African origin were accidentally electrocuted in October
2005 while hiding from police. Police said they weren't chasing the teens, but
anger erupted into chaos in several Paris suburbs heavily populated by
immigrants and their children.
The trouble later spread to other regions throughout the country and the riots
quickly deteriorated into France's worst civil unrest in decades, claiming at
least one life. The violence ebbed and the headlines stopped, but the tensions
beneath French society continue to simmer. On a normal night in 2007, police
estimate about 100 cars are set ablaze across France.
Then, in November 2007, two teens were killed in a crash with a police patrol
car in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel.
Youth took to the streets, throwing Molotov cocktails, setting police
barricades on fire and, in a disturbing escalation of the violence, injuring
dozens of police officers with gunfire.
France's 'moment of truth'
"Our collective responsibility is to make difficult areas the same sort of
territory as others in the republic," France's prime minister at the time,
Dominique de Villepin, told reporters in 2005.
"The republic is at a moment of truth," he said. "What is being questioned is
the effectiveness of our integration model."
Two years later, those questions remain unanswered.
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