{"id":10482,"date":"2014-01-08T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-08T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:36:22","slug":"the_jobs_americans_won_t_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/08\/the_jobs_americans_won_t_do\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Jobs Americans Won\u2019t Do”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Tammy in Central California. Great to have you. Thank you for waiting. You\u2019re up next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks Rush. It\u2019s nice to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was just gonna bring up the point that I\u2019m 25 years old. My husband and I are fourth generation farmers in the Central Valley of California, and we\u2019ve grown up conservative, and we\u2019re very conservative. We just identify strongly with the conservative views, and immigration is something that we kind of ride the fence on because in our industry, our labor depends on immigration.<\/p>\n

So when we start talking about reform, a lot of other farmers in the area start getting nervous just knowing that our labor force could take a major hit. So I just wanted to bring up the point that there could be some Republicans out there that just are just nervous about immigration reform because I honestly believe that our food system depends on it. We depend on having migrant workers coming and doing this work because the average American is not gonna go stand out there in hundred degree weather and pick peaches.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019ve heard that. I\u2019ve heard it.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019ve seen it here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve heard it for a long time, that certain jobs and certain worker Americans won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nope.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So the solution is to what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s something I don\u2019t know. Make a worker program maybe that is easy to… I don\u2019t know. The application process just takes too long. It needs to be simpler.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you said earlier that your industry, farming, requires, or depends on —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. We\u2019ve seen —<\/p>\n

RUSH: — immigration, but you meant migrant workers, you meant illegals.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I mean, we know that a lot of people could be illegal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But yet they\u2019re the only ones who will do the work?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hmm — and, since we\u2019re talking about agriculture, we\u2019re talking about people eating, and so you\u2019re —<\/p>\n

CALLER: My point, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So essentially the only way you as a farmer can feed people is if you have people willing to do jobs that most people won\u2019t do, and why won\u2019t they won\u2019t be those jobs? Why don\u2019t Americans do work on your farm?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they think they need to paid $15 an hour working at McDonald\u2019s. We can\u2019t pay them $15 an hour picking peaches. We\u2019re a business, too. You know, we have to make money as well or we can\u2019t eat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Right. Okay. I got it, but I can\u2019t say it — and it\u2019s a good thing I just ran out of time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s stay with our last caller. She\u2019s gone, but let\u2019s stay with what she was saying. Conservative. She\u2019s 25 years old, her family is into farming in the Central Valley of California — which, folks, the Central Valley of California is so fertile, it feeds the world in a lot of categories. She said the reason Americans won\u2019t do at work that they have on their farm is that they will not work for what they can afford to pay, wage-wise.<\/p>\n

Okay.<\/p>\n

Well, now, that\u2019s admittedly a problem. But my question is: Why is the solution never ending amnesty<\/a> for everybody who wants to come here, which is gonna turn them into automatic Democrats? Whatever happened to seasonal permitted green card immigration to come in? Seasonal immigration, which we\u2019ve supported in the past, is not immigration, but seasonal work permits for people to come in during the growing season, the picking season, whatever it\u2019s called — and when the work is done, then they leave?<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t that a solution. To me, and many people, this is not really about amnesty. It\u2019s not really about immigration. It\u2019s not about a humanitarian cause. The people pushing this are just seeking new voters who will remain in a permanent need of government assistance. There is a desire the Democrat Party for a permanent underclass. Now, they say (and the Republicans who support this say) that what they\u2019re trying to do is service the needs of businesses like these farmers.<\/p>\n

Farmers who cannot afford to pay full-fledged citizens or full-fledged persons, they won\u2019t work for that money, so we need this influx of people from around the world who come from such poverty that the money they will be paid is humongous to them. Okay. I understand the business needs of farms in this circumstance. But the solution does not have to be amnesty for 20 million people who are going to become Democrat voters.<\/p>\n

You know 15 million of \u2019em are gonna back Democrats. How about another solution? Just as an idea. If the farms cannot pay enough to attract American workers, then how about tax credits to allow them to? Tax credits to let them raise their wage. What about exempting them from the corporate tax rate, for example? What about exempting them from all kinds of federal taxation so that they will not have money to spend on the government, they\u2019ll have money to spend on employees?<\/p>\n

My point is, there are all kinds of potential solutions to this that do not involve amnesty for 20 million, whatever the number is. Seasonal migration, which we used to do and which we\u2019ve supported. We understand economics. My point, folks, is that the people behind the immigration reform movement might want you to think that they\u2019re trying to help that woman who called and her farm, but that\u2019s not what they\u2019re into.<\/p>\n

Just like we learn from Bob Gates in his book that Obama and Hillary opposed the Iraq war on purely political grounds. Well, that\u2019s not news to you or me because we know who Obama and Hillary are, and everything they do is political. But the same people who put a political calculation on war — and here\u2019s Gates telling us that Obama, he doesn\u2019t even like hanging around with military people, and he\u2019s not even really into this Afghanistan thing.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s just doing this because he was handed it, and he doesn\u2019t want to be saddled with defeat, but he\u2019s not really behind it. Yet he is sending people into harm\u2019s way for something he\u2019s not even really committed to. But if we didn\u2019t have Gates\u2019 book, all we would know is Obama\u2019s speeches talking about how much he does want victory and how committed he is to it. But we know he\u2019s not. Okay, well, the same kind of people and the same thinking are here on immigration.<\/p>\n

It is nothing more than a giant voter-registration drive to them. But they make it sound like they are concerned about farmers and migrant workers and the other itinerant or attached humanitarian causes. But that\u2019s a smoke screen, because there are solutions that are much less damaging to the culture<\/a>, to the society, and to the overall economy, not to mention the sanctity of law. Our immigration law is worthless. People are allowed to break it, and very few are ever held accountable.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need immigration “reform.” All we need to do is enforce the laws that are already on the books, and why don\u2019t we do that? The reason we don\u2019t do that is these bodies are desired. They are seen by both parties as potential voters. So we have this woman in Central Valley of California. She\u2019s conservative. You could hear the Republican inflection in her voice. She\u2019s conservative. But she can\u2019t pay very much for the work she has done.<\/p>\n

There are certain people who will do it for what she could afford to pay, but they\u2019re not Americans, and she needs the work done. Her family needs the work. Okay. How do you solve that problem? Well, the problem can be solved without granting amnesty to 20 million people. That\u2019s my only point. (interruption) Well, they would have, except we stopped it. Snerdley just said, “The problem with that is, Rush, that the seasonal people are not gonna leave when the season\u2019s over, because they\u2019re gonna like living here so much more than where they came from. They\u2019re not gonna leave.” (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, free schools, free medical, free health care. But we\u2019re not telling them they can bring their families. Wait a second. Under my idea, and the way it was done in the past, they didn\u2019t bring their families, and they weren\u2019t ending up on welfare. And when the season ended they were sent home. It was up to the employer to produce it and police. It\u2019s been done before. No, we\u2019re not breaking up families. Wrong. How many American fathers go over to Saudi Arabia to work in the oil fields while mom and the kids stay here? We\u2019re not breaking up families; we\u2019re supporting families. We\u2019re letting people come here who want to work. There\u2019s work here that only they will do, supposedly. I\u2019m just accepting that as part of the theory, part of the equation.<\/p>\n

Look, my overall point, I\u2019m probably not expressing it well because Snerdley keeps arguing with me. My only point is that there are much more effective, smaller solutions specifically tailored to a specific need than what is being proposed. Nobody wants farms to go out of business. Nobody wants farms to close down. Nobody wants anybody to go hungry. That\u2019s not the case here. But what we all know, what we all understand is that the people that are behind massive, as McCain said, comprehensive, meaningful comprehensive immigration reform, it\u2019s just a voter registration drive to them. Let \u2019em tell us that that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing, see how it flies.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve got so many problems with all of this. This business that there are jobs Americans won\u2019t do, I\u2019ve had problems with that ever since I first heard that from an economist friend who tried to explain it to me. He believed it, thought it was rational. I\u2019ve had problems with it instinctively from the first time I heard it. “Well, there are certain jobs Americans won\u2019t do. Americans\u2019 job expectations have gone way past picking lettuce.”<\/p>\n

Okay, fine. We\u2019ve got 90 million Americans not working, almost 91 million Americans not working. That is more people than live in Germany. As you well know, if the unemployment rate actually counted people who no longer were looking for work — who\u2019ve given up — the real unemployment rate would be 11-point-something percent. With 90 million Americans not working, how can there be jobs Americans won\u2019t do? And yet it\u2019s probably true. And the reason is how much we\u2019re paying people not to work. That\u2019s why there are jobs Americans won\u2019t do, is because of how much we\u2019re paying them not to work. Pure and simple, folks.<\/p>\n

Okay, so we\u2019ve got an overcrowding problem in our prisons in California. How about letting them out, pick lettuce, pick peaches, and pay them whatever the going rate would be that you pay an illegal? My only point is there are all kinds of solutions here that do not involve massive comprehensive amnesty or immigration reform. Reduce the corporate tax rate that these farms are paying. Reduce what they have to give to the government so they can pay a higher wage.<\/p>\n

So the jobs will become those Americans will do. “But, Rush, Americans are not gonna go to the fields and sweat.” Okay, I got a solution for that. If it\u2019s back-breaking work — and we\u2019re told it\u2019s really tough, I mean, it is hard, back-breaking work, then that\u2019s what you do for college and pro football players. You send them there instead of summer training camp. You get \u2019em in shape. There\u2019s no concussions.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no blown knees, no strained ankles, just a bunch of people sweating in the hot sun, getting ready for football season. Now, I know it\u2019s a stretch. I\u2019m just giving you examples here. There are all kinds of solutions to this. But look at how much we\u2019re paying people not to work? That\u2019s why there are jobs Americans won\u2019t do. And then factor in, we don\u2019t have the money we are paying people not to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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