AS a roofing contractor outside Wash DC for the past 20 years, I'll share my experience. Until the El Salvadorans came around it was darn near impossible to hire anyone. I'd run ads in the Washington Post and be lucky to get 3-4 people respond. And half of them wouldn't show. The ones who would work were the dregs of society. Drug problems, alcohol problems, on parole, not reliable and not people I'd want around. I had one scumbag burglarize a customers house. About 10 years ago I hired an El Salvadoran- later his 3 nephews and brothers in law, cousins etc. Most of them came over illegal but now have work permits granted because of the civil war in El Salvador and Hurricane Mitch. Most are reliable and eager to work. They don't work for peanuts-they're not stupid. I pay 15 -$22 hr. + health insurance for the guys that have been with me awhile. I've got 3 americans and 7 hispanics working. It may be different in your area, but without the hispanics the economy here would come to a standstill. There flat out was not enough labor to fill all the blue collar jobs here. The unemployed locals were largely unwilling or unemployable.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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