Thread: A carpenter's view on unemployment

A carpenter's view on unemployment
By Christopher Sand




As I look around at the economic and population growth that has taken place in Grass Valley over the past four decades, it makes me wonder what our county, state and national governments will have in store for our future and the future of our children.

I know times are financially stressed for U.S. citizens and government tyrants alike, but shouldn't the people have a voice? We the people have given complete control to tyrants on how our money is spent, and in the end, our corrupt courts prevail. Is this what we want? Our freedom gone, the courage to stand with pride?

With all the problems going on around us, I would like to take the liberty to voice my opinion (in a regulated press) on the issue of unemployment and the immigration problem that plagues our county, state and country.

Driving around the area, you can see that construction has come to a crawl. Although we do see a little project going on every now and then, do you ever wonder how a particular construction company won the bid and got the job? Do you ever notice the ethnic group of carpenters they have working on the project?

You, the readers, know the answer to these questions, and as distasteful as it sounds, illegal immigration and the corrupt courts that allow anything illegal to take place are criminal and make our very nation turn in shame.

Immigration is the foundation of this country, for which we fought a revolution and wrote a constitution. Illegal immigration is just that: illegal.

So now, our tyrant leaders have made it legal by documenting illegal immigrants and issuing illegal immigrant cards. Am I missing something in the translation of the word “illegal?â€

In the 70s the construction trade apprenticeships were the hardest to get , you had to have a relative or some other juice in the trades to get in , there were no hispanics or very very few of them, there were no illegals for sure.

Now a white or black person can't even get in the starting line for these jobs

I live in Vegas a few blocks from all the construction union halls , its all hispanic , I mean all , almost 100%

In North Carolina, every residential construction site you see has Spanish speaking crews; ten to twelve years ago hard working Americans held these jobs.