over 100K deported so far

My god man, they're eating the koi now?

 

Those people cant support families on the jobs the deported have abandoned.

It's two totally separate issues.

 

Lol... yeah, I was thinking about the America Federal workers being laid-off.

 

Right, good people now facing terrible circumstances, so I guess we should hope they can climb up on our roof?

Look, the fed needs trimmed, but the celebration about good people losing their income has been hard for me to swallow.

(Not saying you celebrated it)

 

No, I never said that, Tilly. But there are good paying factory jobs out there, or coming soon, and those former federal workers will be forced to actually do some work for their pay check.

No more sitting at home... collecting free taxpayer money.

 

Two thoughts on recent posts.

#1 - I feel for the federal employees who are now out of work, but also wonder why there were good paying federal government jobs that seemingly weren’t necessary? RE the necessity of the positions cut, I expect some are actually necessary and we’ll see those brought back in the future. Only time and politics will determine how many of the jobs eliminated remain eliminated.

#2 - With respect to the concept of former federal workers filling lower paying (and less desirable, perhaps more physically demanding) jobs abandoned by illegal immigrants leaving the US …. why do we accept the notion that these jobs are not suitable for US citizens? This reinforces the realities of economic class stratification and discrimination in employment.

 

If that’s true wouldn’t raising wages at fast food places raise inflation?
Unless I’m mistaken according to experts here that doesn’t happen.

How can both be true?

 

Potentially, to a much lesser extent than cutting total labor supply during a labor shortage. In fact, raising minimum wage during a labor shortage might have no effect on actual wages, as wages may be higher than either minimum wage. Also, much of the empirical work on that sector has shown that companies eat much of the wage increase themselves, in that industry, something not replicated across all industries.