Comments on: Hire Americans First

By: Craig Morris

Craig Morris — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:55 +0000

This is not only true for low end jobs. I work in engineering and two thirds of the engineering staff are foreigners and almost all new hires are foreigners, even as engineering jobs become hard to find. Foreigners have pushed there way into managment and now promote each other to where almost all senior management are from one Asian country. When layoffs come it is usually Americans who get the ax as foreigners protect their own. It seem they have a stronger ethnic bond and the American ‘fair play’ idea does not appeal to them. A friend of mine who is himself from a foreign country says that when those from his country get together they agree that Americans are stupid; They are giving this country away and will soon be owned by foreigners. I am not a racist and enjoy working with those from other cultures, but we are selling our birthright for a mess of pottage. A lot of this is due to fat, lazy Americans who don’t teach their kids to study and work hard (there are of course many exceptions). I fear that the wheel of history is turning and America as we knew it is not fit enough to survive.

By: Scarlett Pimpernel

Scarlett Pimpernel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:43:52 +0000

Seriously, if our elected officials won’t protect our rights by enforcing the laws, then, beyond their ability to coerce, what right have they to even ask Joe or Jane Citizen to continue to respect the law?

The law is a formalization of an unspoken, axiomatic social agreement that we will all abide by certain norms, and that we will respect it so long as it is applied, evenly, fairly and unbiased. When it becomes obvious that it isn’t being applied fairly by one of the parties, then, logically, if the grievances of the other aren’t addressed, what good reason, (again beyond coercion), exists for the aggrieved party not to regard the unspoken social agreement as null and void?

Our nation’s social fabric is rapidly fraying and one has to look no further than DC to find those most responsible.

By: Al Harris

Al Harris — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:05:47 +0000

Before I retired from a university career, I encountered many student immigrants — here on student visas — seeking work-study jobs. Work-study jobs do not pay enough to cover real college expenses. Typically, many of these temporary residents held second or even third jobs in the private sector — mostly undesirable minimum-wage jobs such as laborers in private landscaping crews. While I admired their zeal to work and earn their way through college, I couldn’t help but feel sympathy for the jobless Americans who had already given up and stopped looking for work. Speaking as a Catholic, I feel that perhaps a real-world answer is to try to help the jobless Americans to pick themselves up and to accept work of whatever kind they can find, even if it is mopping restroom floors. There is more to be gained from work than mere money. It restores self-esteem and renews character. A worker who is willing to start at the absolute bottom and who can show a true work ethic (demonstrating that he or she really wants to work and can do a good job) will rise to higher-paying work. Too many times I’ve seen job applicants who acted as if they were “too good” to do menial or servile labor.

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:36:43 +0000

No dogs nor Irish need apply.

By: R J Stove

R J Stove — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:19:04 +0000

What Tom Piatak said. With knobs on.

To which I would add only that I shall attempt to give this article some serious publicity in Australia, among the handful of antipodean magazine editors who can still read.

By: Michael Orlowski

Michael Orlowski — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:01:54 +0000

Why don’t we change the regulatory structure of this country to encourage more investment here and and bring back whatever jobs we lost overseas? Regime uncertainty and past bureaucratic meddling has acted to the detriment of our economy.

By: Tom Piatak

Tom Piatak — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:36:39 +0000

An outstanding column on a major issue that both parties continue to ignore, to the detriment of our people.

By: Kevin J Jones

Kevin J Jones — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:30:03 +0000

“When a 2006 raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the workforce, Swift was up and running at full staff within months. How? Native-born Americans in the hundreds came out and took the jobs.”

This didn’t last at the plant near Greeley, Colorado. Imported Somalis deemed to be refugees are now prominent there.

I’d have preferred Mexicans.

(See the Denver Post article “Somali refugees take up new roots in Greeley” 6/29/09 )