People that are content living off the system are not typically good employees. You can cut disability or welfare or whatever but you'll have the same issue and probably an increase in crime.
When one is talking about low wage earners, that is the pool that one is pulling from already. I would not be surprised if illegals were in same way able to get in on the grift as well. And I do believe that there is an increase in crime with more illegals that come in, because it isn't always the most honest and trustworthy people that come through those open borders. Not at all mind you.
I think people have lost sight of the fact that you need a workforce of people who actually want to work, learn and advance themselves. The ones that are happier sitting on the couch all day are not a solution.
Absolutely, even in a commie environment, still have to have people working (although the incentive to work as much as they would have otherwise may be different, unless they are shall we say strongly encourage to work).
What is in bold is, I think, the bigger problem. Education (or the lack of) is the key thing as to why we are also in this pickle that we are in. And this feeds into other issues as well. It isn't just one issue, it's several coming together, but education (or lack thereof) is the biggest thing or atleast the catalyst.
Part of Britain's problem right now is a lack of immigrant workers. Many of the truck drivers came from eastern Europe but then Brexit came along. Now they want to give them short term work permits to come back and they are saying screw you. Trashing immigrants is great for the politicians but it isn't for the economy.
There are immigrants that come through the front door and there are immigrants that come through the back door. One of those tends to get the "trash" talk more statistically speaking.
And I would say that the current admin here isn't all that much on "trashing immigrants" of any type. Liberalism is all about open borders. Just what it is.
Ironically, legal immigrants don't tend to like a huge swath of illegals coming in as well (just look at voting demographic swing that has happened in the harder hit border areas among legal immigrants). Legal immigrants and illegal immigrants are also after those very same jobs, at least initially, and some never go beyond that job market for one reason or another. And with the illegals, it can be even cheaper for employers due to the no frills paperwork/taxes etc attack. Now, some could say that it's just people that are wanting more and more and don't want the competition in the job market. Or it could be that employers want to find a cheaper labor pool to squeeze as much as they can out of them.
Bottom line is that companies too aren't all that loyal to their employees and that feeds into everything and the lower on the pay wage one is, the more of a commodity one is as well. If that is the game that employers want to play, don't be surprised when get some bad apples regardless if they are legal or not.
