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    Quote Originally Posted by bjproc View Post
    will it not bring jobs to the area?
    Well, not to start an economics class, but...

    ...think about similar situations elsewhere. Maybe the locals do get some of the work but the word gets out that there are jobs and people start heading to a destination to get the work. Maybe the recent arrivals are willing to take less money that the locals for the same work. If it's seasonal work then it all goes up for grabs: a wave of migrant workers showing up at the season's beginning and taking off when it ends. The community has to adapt to accomodate this influx of workers. More congestion, more community services needed (schools, medical, police, fire)...housing prices go up (supply and demand, baby!). What happens to the locals then? It's a shell game for developers to hand out that old "making work for the community" malarkey.

    We have communities around Chicago where none of the locals want to work at the service businesses. You can't even get the high school kids to take summer jobs because they don't pay enough and the staff of the local McDonalds is made up of people who, no foolin', do a thirty or forty mile commute every day to work at McDonalds.

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    delete please, double post

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    Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
    Well, not to start an economics class, but...

    ...think about similar situations elsewhere. Maybe the locals do get some of the work but the word gets out that there are jobs and people start heading to a destination to get the work. Maybe the recent arrivals are willing to take less money that the locals for the same work. If it's seasonal work then it all goes up for grabs: a wave of migrant workers showing up at the season's beginning and taking off when it ends. The community has to adapt to accomodate this influx of workers. More congestion, more community services needed (schools, medical, police, fire)...housing prices go up (supply and demand, baby!). What happens to the locals then? It's a shell game for developers to hand out that old "making work for the community" malarkey.

    We have communities around Chicago where none of the locals want to work at the service businesses. You can't even get the high school kids to take summer jobs because they don't pay enough and the staff of the local McDonalds is made up of people who, no foolin', do a thirty or forty mile commute every day to work at McDonalds.

    Do you honestly want to trust Donald Trump to be a good citizen?

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    well, when you put it like that, you may well be right

    thanks for the good reply.

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