Re: When will we wake up?
Sorry, but again, for those who are hearing impaired, I have seen it over and over again, the migrants do show up and work all day, and if they aren't sober, they sure look it and act it. The white americans tend to flake, complain and not finish the job.
I'm sure examples could be found that contradict both, but I have seen the same scene play out with different players many times.
And what about the old "free market", anyway? Why shouldn't Joe Homeowner or even Joe Contractor have the right to hire whoever they want for whatever wage someone is willing to work for? Who has the right to tell someone that they shoudn't be able to hire someone off the street to do some landscaping work or build a privacy fence?
I'll tell you who: the Contractor's Board. I know what it takes to obtain an Oregon Contractor's license, custom. Very little. Quickie little video based class and a written test that a chimp could pass. Oh, and a big fat bond. But there is nothing about the licensing process that ensures competency or honesty. It is an old fashioned Guild, plain and simple, and it gets me pretty PO'd when I see the state spending money setting up sting operations to bust people for mowing lawns without a contractor's license (Oregon has done that more than once).
You want to talk conservative thought and free market, well, the Contractor's Board is the opposite of all of that.