This Blog Is Full Of Crap

First off, Texas is a union-unfriendly state. Call it Right To Work or whatever, but in the end it's union-unfriendly. The rules that make it easy for you to get a job and for are a double-edged sword when some union boss wants to make it hard for someone not in their union to get a job without them getting their cut.

Secondly, a low-kill low-wage job like being a janitor is what illegals are specifically being brought in by the truckload to do. Same with meat-processing plants and other low-skill low-wage situations where the employer can pawn off their disposable, fearful-of-public attention workers.

Don't want to get paid that? Then don't come here. And certainly don't pay someone to take you here for it.

Marvin once went a tittle nuts with an outburst of It's Hell to be poor! Went on to go You'll get sick and you'll die! on that riff. Took a few seconds for Dave to recover his senses on that before the TYM.

Yeah, it's hell to be poor. But did you come here to be poor?

Probably not. Not that you know that the real payrate is that low before you get on board. Lots of coyotes spin tales of greater wages, only to dump off their cargo in crowded houses, guarded by armed thugs ready to blow away their cargo if they poke their noses out before they get to their final location for their slave wages.

So you have to do these jobs because you can't do anything else and you're worried if you try to do anything else the Federales will ship you back?

Ouch. Sucks to be you. But there's a difference between protesting by the thousands in a big rally and protesting by the dozens in the Galleria area. You should be learning that right about now.

If there wasn't a better demonstration how illegal immigration drives labor prices down, provides a disincentive for employers to provide benefits (which end up costing the community money when they use the ER as a personal physician, providing false billing information), and disrupts the social fabric of the community when opportunities are mistaken for things you think you're owed...

Oh well. The cops are arresting them and clearing traffic now. Taking out the trash in the street, as it were, or sweeping it under the proverbial rug when the get swatted by the Sanctuary City Policy by Hurtt (or his henchmen if he's still back home in Phoenix).

Maybe the strikers will take a moment to notice that this is an opportunity when they're getting arrested. I mean, if they're languishing on $5.50 an hour part-time for a crappy job and looking for more, why not ask the cops how much they get paid doing their jobs, how much they get in benefits, and if they're hiring. After all, if the HPD is going to try to hire a bunch of laid-off Ford employees, why not try to do a little recruiting at the same time as community outreach, right?

Why be the one wearing the handcuffs when you can be the one paid to use them?

The Chronicle called these kinds of disruptions "creative." I wonder how creative they'd think it was if the strikers were to throw up their roadblocks in places that disrupted their newspaper delivery.

And here's the $64,000 Question... who built the website for the striking janitors and how much do they earn for their families with those jobskills?

Imagine how they'd react if they had their boss knock on their door and tell them "Nice site for the SEIU. But I'm sorry... you make too much as a webdesigner compared to what the going payrate is out there. But good news... some of these striking janitors know HTML and the Spanish language version of PhotoShop, so..."