(Forgive me as I try to talk like my xenophobic neighbors. I’m just trying to understand them… and point out the failure of their political actions.)
Who wants more foreigners taking away your job? Republican Senator Mike Rounds:
U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R) says tourist attractions and construction companies in the state will be hurting this spring because of a lack of temporary workers from overseas.
“It impacts us perhaps more than some other parts of the country because our unemployment rate is literally the lowest in the nation, so we are disproportionately impacted when we can’t bring in these temporary seasonal employees,” says Rounds.
The problem is the H2B Visa Program for seasonal foreign workers. The cap for the number of such workers allowed in the U.S. has already been reached, leaving many South Dakota businesses without the seasonal workers they rely on during the spring and summer [Mark Russo, “South Dakota Hurting for Foreign Seasonal Workers,” KELO Radio, 2017.03.23].
Don’t picket Lutheran Social Services; picket Mike Rounds!
Rounds boy, comrade trump, is now doing the “extreme vetting” for everyone coming to the country on travel, to visit family or to do temporary work. Not only will overseas tourism suffer from the russian politics that comrade trump has bestowed on South Dakota, but there will be fewer if any workers. Time to go to the reservations and pay decent wages for help to come and stay for the summer months. The sure cure for south dakota unemployment would be to hire Indians with good paying jobs along with housing for the season. Oh, the other thing would be to hire the 35 dudes and dudettes that are doing nothing for the state and have them make some beds in Custer or wait some tables at Wall. Elections have consequences, hey, dust off that EB5 stuff and get ol’ Joop to figure something out.
I’ll just leave these hear for all the GOP fanboys and their America First hypocrisy.
http://www.agweb.com/article/trump-winery-in-virginia-seeks-more-foreign-workers-apnews/
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/309053-trump-will-again-hire-foreign-workers-to-staff-private-resort-in-florida
HB2. For when you stop believing in paying free market wages to Americans and South Dakotans.
File under empty GOP ideology.
Jerry,
Why do you think Indians from the reservations would want to come to tourists areas to work a minimum wage job?
Indians probably wouldn’t be welcomed by employers in the first place?
There won’t be as many tourists this year. The Canadians won’t come, and that will be a big loss for SD. And tourists from around the world who come to the Sturgis rally won’t come this year because of concerns about being detained or turned around at airports, so rally numbers will be off. And with SD’s new adoption law we are on the same blacklist as North Carolina, so we will lose an indeterminate amount of tourism for that reason. I’m sure Trump supporters will try to rationalize a collapse in tourism business on something else besides Trump’s policies and SD’s GOP policies, but that’s the real reason. Minnesota and Illinois will probably have a banner tourism year while SD tourism collapses.
I think the only ones allowed to hire migrant workers are the Trump family for their vineyard
Mr. C’s first question is a good one. If you don’t have to travel to tourist places to make $10 an hour or whatever the new inflated minimum wage is, then why would you if you can make more sitting home and not traveling.
It is a good question. I guess the young adults from overseas are willing to do so, but Mr. Rounds has kudos for them since no kids from Rapid City and no kids from Pine Ridge are willing to work at The Farm of McDonald out there on the flats.
Rounds’ insurance company looking for agents who will work for minimum wage, no benefits and without a commission. Free markets at work.
All the employers have to do to have workers is to pay them a living wage with benefits. They tried that in western North Dakota and look at the crowds they drew.
Speaking of oil . . . let’s hurry up defunding the EPA. We must stop it from monitoring oil spills and drinking water so that Pierre may receive the drinking water they voted for.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-dakota-oil-spill_us_58d54eece4b03692bea55b42?
Rounds main concern is the need for cheap casino workers.
I’ve wondered what Tourists think when the restaurant Maitre d’hotel speaks with a Polish accent, their server speaks with a Ukraine accent. and the cashier has a French accent. Are they ever disappointed that they are visiting a State, but have yet to meet anyone from the U.S.?
Really mikie? Seem like you may have missed something from your new president.
Roger, I think that if you got subsistence and “Scale” wages for the work performed, young people would take the jobs. Even older ones would as well if you paid them for the jobs performed with time and a half for overtime, food and lodging as the offering. Sounds to me like a pretty good deal for a high school student or a college kid for the summer. So if you are a cook’s helper or a cook, you should get the scale wage for that job. Equal pay for the job performed. Benefits as well. If you work 60 days for any other business, you are eligible for healthcare under the ACA/Obamacare. Have a job fair to see what interest there may be right at the school’s. If employers are in such dire straits as to complain to the news media, then those same business folks ought to have a plan in place that is more than complaining. These are jobs and this is what those businessmen all wanted when they put the x by trump.