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On 3/24/13 11:36 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:09:31 -0400, iBoaterer
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The hardest working people I see on residential construction sites
around here are Latinos.

Primarily because they're the *only* working people on the sites.

Salmonbait

Really? No one else on any construction site works other than Latinos?

They are the ones who are not updating their twitter feed and texting
with their girl friends all day. Anglo kids really just do not want to
do this work and it is reflected in their productivity.
When we did our addition I wanted to avoid any drywall so it is
concrete block and stucco on both sides. I had a Mexican guy who
finished the inside walls so smooth you would really believe it was
skim coated drywall.
After the crash, when most of the Mexicans went home, I had the
"boss" of that crew (anglo) come back and recoat a wall because I had
cut a door in it and made a window smaller.

All I can say is, it's a good thing we went with a underwater paint
scheme because the "waves" are in the stucco.

Your comments about twittering and "Anglo" kids are absurd. There are
plenty of highly qualified plasterers of all ethnic backgrounds. If you
don't have any in your area, it is because your contractors forced them
out of the job market by hiring possibly undocumented foreign workers
willing to work for much less, without benefits, in our country's dive
to the bottom.

The contractor who handles our heavy yard work and, when we have snow,
plowing, is Mexican. His crews are comprised of Mexicans and "Anglos."
They all work very hard. I'm sure most of them have girlfriends, too.

A few college-level stat courses taught by one of those ivory towered
professors might cure you of trying to draw universal truths from too
few data points.

This anti-"Anglo youth" thing of Greg's is pretty crazy. Probably due
his wife's history of squeezing undocumented Latinos for cheap work.
Work hard for cheap with the implicit threat of ICE hanging over your
head. Money in Greg's pocket. Almost everything is economic unless you
rise above it. Most find that difficult, including me. But I don't let
it shade my sense of reality.
Kids of all ethnic backgrounds are a product of their parents and their
economic background.
Greg seems to think Mexicans have a special "work gene." Crazy stuff.
Then uses an example of an "Anglo boss" not doing as good a job as a guy
who is more practiced, and maybe just more skilled, to "prove" it.
He doesn't understand it's all about demographics and getting the
cheapest labor. Networking too, which is just as important in the
"unskilled" world as it is elsewhere.
Bossman needs 3 more workers. Does he put an ad in the paper? If he's
only half smart he goes to his good workers and has them recruit for
him. Win-win.
Of course Greg expects an Anglo citizen to work cheaply alongside the
undocumented Mexicans, learn Spanish, and keep his head down.
That would work if he could deport the Anglo citizen. He can't.
It's some crazy "racist' stuff, essentially saying that "Anglos" have no
work ethic. If it wasn't so incredibly stupid, I would resent it.
As an aside, where undocumented workers are absent, things aren't
falling apart. Citizens of all ethnic backgrounds do the jobs just
fine. But generally the cost of living is higher. There's nothing
conclusive that I've seen, but I suspect that an illegal work force will
increase crime of the area they exist within. Not because the
"illegals" themselves are committing crime, but because more citizens
fall into poverty due to jobs being taken, and turn to crime.
But that's just my speculation, and I might be wrong.