Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw subscribes to the cheap foreign labor lobby line that Americans are lazy and a bunch of bums. He has zero experience working as an entrepreneur nor FOR an entrepreneur and knows nothing of working in a private sector job. He clearly has no understanding of the concept of career progression---where the skills acquired working entry-level jobs in the trades and service industry lay the foundation for progressing to a better paying job in another industry such as oil & gas and sales.
He knows nothing about Federal and state workplace laws like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and the Fair Labor Standards Act violations which occur in his backyard; in his home state of Texas. And he fails to acknowledge Americans know their constitutional rights in the workplace.
An individual lacking this knowledge, experience and wisdom should not be a Congressman, says one of my Houston, Texas friends.
Two days ago, on May 13 the District Herald reported on remarks made by the representative during a Leadership Institute Digital Town Hall (emphasis mine):
The representative claimed that places that had fewer immigrants, citing Alabama, couldn’t find workers to do those jobs. This, Crenshaw asserted, is a problem with the work ethic of Americans, not with business owners who prefer to pay ultra low-wages to foreign nationals.
“That’s an American cultural problem that I wish we could fix,” Crenshaw said. “I wish our teenagers would actually go to work. They don’t.”
Crenshaw added that he has to be “sympathetic” to “some of these business owners who are creating jobs and creating wealth in America, creating growth, building things — they can’t do it without anybody working there.”
“For some reason, people who speak English just won’t go work there,” Crenshaw said.People who speak English won't work there? Won't work in the trades? Won't work in the service industry?
Congressman Crenshaw seems to also lack awareness of a time when vocational training and education courses were elective offerings in the public high schools. My now-deceased father taught woodworking and mechanical drawing aka "shop class" at the high school level for over 25 years.
Wonder why high schools stopped offering those courses decades ago.
As I wrote earlier, he believes Americans are lazy and a bunch of bums. Wait until his constituents find out.
