#1. America's low skilled jobs should be done by American citizens currently living on welfare. #2. We can't afford to continue providing health care and free education for people who came here illegally. We're broke.
Originally Posted by joe bloe
I'm just curious .. exactly how do you propose to have "American citizens currently living on welfare" do "America's low skilled jobs"?
FYI: Before this country had a "nanny-welfare" system for lazy people who don't want to work, the agricultural "industry" ...... "imported" people from the Latin American countries, as well as oriental countries, to do the work in the fields that was necessary and appropriate to put the food on the table in this country, until the industry became sufficiently mechanized to take over much, and sometimes all, of the task.
News flash: We can't afford to continue providing health care and free education for people who
ARE here
LEGALLY. We're broke.
My concern with our borders has more to do with security and mitigation of the existing situation than any thing else ... it is safer and cheaper to keep people out than to deal with their needs, and their chlidren's needs, and/or process them for deportation. It is obviously not just our Southern borders. It's all four of them, and every airport in this country that receives international flights. There are people in this country who are not from Latin American countries who arrived on a student visa and are not complying with the requirements of the visa, for example. Not too long ago hundreds of them were rounded up at ... Bush IAH (post-911)....no green cards.
All those jobs, and good paying ones I might add with employee benefits, are available for anyone who can pass a criminal background check and a piss test. There is even bus service to the IAH complex from just about any part of town. Unfortunately for many, airports are open 24/7, and some of them have to get their asses up in the morning, put on a "uniform," get to the bus stop, and arrive at work ... ON TIME!
In addition for years there were community college programs in the Houston metro area that provided training for good paying jobs with benefits, but, again, people had to have a "decent" criminal history and pass a UA. Some of the programs were guarantied jobs, if people just ... SHOWED UP FOR CLASSES .. focused enough to be processed through the testing procedure ... and filled out a job application (with the help of instructors) and appeared for an "interview" .. conducted ON CAMPUS. Good pay AND better benefits .. insurance, sick leave, paid vacations, and retirement with fast promotions .. if they stayed "clean." The finish rate was about 25%.
We have to fix our welfare system first .. by reducing the rolls and limiting the "benefits" ... so that being "on welfare" is not as attractive as working for a living. The problem is that many of the same people who want to restrict our 2nd amendment rights are championing the "right to welfare."
Now they call it .... "extended unemployment benefits"!