May 01, 2008 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. A Massachusetts Reader Notes That Hundreds Of Americans Stood In Line At Cape Cod’s Job FairFrom: Chris Brown: (e-mail him) Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column: Leisure Industry Considers A New Idea (For It)---Hiring Americans! Because I live in Massachusetts, Guzzardi’s columns about Cape Cod and the H-2B visa scam piqued my interest. When I was growing up, many of my high school and college friends would get summer jobs on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. When I visited, they would be living two or three in a room, much as they do in college dorms. And they were having the best summer of their lives. So I knew that Cape Cod’s alleged concerns about not finding summer help and therefore desperately need more non-immigrant H-2B visas were bogus. And now we discover that, as Guzzardi predicted in his column, the Cape Cod Job Fair---reaching out to American workers---was a huge success. More than 300 people per hour attended with hundreds of job applications submitted. [Hyannis Job Fair Deemed a Success, By Matthew M. Burke, Cape Cod Times, April 15, 2008] There’s a good lesson here: Americans are ready, willing and able to work—as long as Congress and the cheap labor lobby doesn’t make it impossible for them. |
