From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 17:06:49 MDT
At 06:14 PM 8/30/2002 -0400, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
>Yes, the excuse is that we don't want to do the low productivity jobs. I am
>old enough to remember when every one of those jobs were filled by Americans.
> Then the employers found they could encourage people to infiltrate our
>borders for a lower wage. They fired the Americans that were making slightly
>higher wages. The illegals did the work, got the money, the Americans were
>idle and drew relief or went into selling dope or other illegal pursuits as
>their were no wages. The politicians found out they could generate campaign
>contributions by trumpeting the employers BS cover story and promising the
>unemployed relief money in exchange for votes.
> Now, they are moving up the employment chain with the same tactic.
> Sorry, to be so negative guys but I worked as a consultant and I have
>been in too many of those businesses to be fooled.
>Ron h.
>
> Oh, and I have discussed the advantages of hiring illegals with the
>clients managers as well as seen the warning go out a day or two before the
>INS raid. On the day of the raid all the illegals would be out of the
>building. When they came back they had new names.
At my largest client, they are not bothering with the illegals. Much of the
software development is going to India where they can buy a whole job
shop's time for what I charge each hour. Their manufacturing was in
Singapore until they moved to Mexico after NAFTA. They have zero
manufacturing in the States for this division now - not even a prototype
shop. That work is also done in Mexico, at the cost of their engineers
spending weeks down there to babysit the proto builds.
On the horizon is production in mainland China. The Mexicans are starting
to charge too much for labor.
I predict that inside of ten years there won't be a single household
appliance built in North America - all that will be done in China, and
quite a lot of the engineering will be overseas, also.
I have to wonder how soon the Chinese will realize that they can engineer,
program, and build without our help, and simply shut down the remainder of
American businesses. The CEOs of the affected companies are probably
working on their escape plans right now.
Chuck Kuecker
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