Interview · moment 18 of 28
Aspen Nannies, Welfare-Subsidized Poverty Wages, and 'Jobs Americans Won't Do'
from Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414 · #414
4 min
Guest
Tim and Vance mock wealthy enclaves paying immigrant nannies and housecleaners poverty wages subsidized by taxpayer welfare, debunk the 'jobs Americans won't do' framing using 1960s construction employment, and argue for raising wages instead of importing cheap labor.
- Tim on wealthy enclaves like Greenwich and Southampton expecting American workers to accept poverty wages for nanny and service work.
- Chamber of Commerce and political shifts: Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton both opposed open borders as wage-suppressing, but the Democratic and libertarian right united around immigration with no restrictions.
- Aspen nannies paid poverty wages survive only because they live six to an apartment and receive American taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.
- The arrangement is called racist if opposed, but the real cost falls on taxpayers funding welfare while rich people underpay service workers.
- Tim's sarcasm about Aspen, West Hollywood, Bel Air, and Malibu residents unable to afford paying nannies a livable wage.
- The phrase 'jobs Americans won't do' listed: retail, gardening, child care, and construction—all falsely claimed as unwanted by Americans.
- In the 1960s with low illegal immigration, no houses were supposedly being built and mass homelessness plagued America—the actual history contradicts the claim.
- The real truth: there are no jobs Americans won't do, only jobs at insufficient wages; the solution is raising wages, not importing a serf class.
- A permanent low-wage class of non-English speakers corrodes American democracy by destroying the commonality of citizenship the Founders envisioned.
- Creating a permanent underclass of low-wage serfs undermines the citizen ship ethos required for democracy to function.
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