relax timbo -take a breath --
All have workmens comp insurance ,--for roofers it is huge 20% -it is a high risk occupation -BUT LAW REQUIRES w c to be on a job site unless its your own home -I have roofed homes ,grew up in building and worked const. when younger --I just design now .
been off roofs 3 times ,-mainly ice and frost unseen early morning going from a sunny side to unwarmed side .
I bounce well --just bruised ribs etc ,.
-being self employed I have blue cross as do most for themselves and their employees who are often small family owned biz .
Here in MI illegal immigration is not a problem ,-all speak English with some exceptions .-The framing crew that will frame the basic structure is a family biz -they are from Romainia -legal immigration and US citizens --they are great ,-well paid -have insurance -and very pleased to be part of the USA .
Interesting that you note immigration --
Hanson wrote Mexifornia ,-having grown up in rural Calif where he was one of few students not of Mexican origin in SMALL RURAL school - You may wish to read it
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
"Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California," Victor Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population into our mainstream."
Noted for his military histories and especially his social commentary of post-9/11 American life, Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian who teaches college classics courses and runs a family farm. Mexifornia is part history, part political analysis, and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in the California over the last quarter century, and how the real losers in the chaos caused by hemorrhaging borders are the Mexican immigrants themselves.
A large part of the problem, Hanson believes, comes from the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles an honest discussion of the growing problem. Corporations, contractors, and agribusiness demand cheap wage labor from Mexico, whatever the social consequences. Meanwhile, academics, journalists, government bureaucrats, and La Raza advocates envision illegal aliens as a vast new political constituency for those committed to the notion that victimhood, not citizenship, is the key to advancement.
Mexifornia is an indictment of the policies that got California into its present mess. But this beautifully written book also reflects Hanson's strong belief that our traditions of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage may yet remedy a problem that the politicians and ideologues have allowed to get out of hand.
Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist at California State University, Fresno, is author most recently of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power and An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terror.
