Is it just me or does there appear to be a disconnect here somewhere?
MARRIOTT CEO: We need immigration bill so we can staff our resorts...
AT&T CEO says more guest workers needed...
208 CEOs endorse call for amnesty, visas for 'lower-skilled workers'...
Report: Unemployment crisis for minority youths...
I just finished reading these four headlines and thought, “Wait a minute!”
On one hand we have CEOs saying we need to get all these illegals legalized and at the same time we are having a crisis of unemployment with our minority youth.
If we were to put our unemployed minority youth to work in the ‘lower-skilled workers’ positions the CEOs are crying for “amnesty” to legally fill, wouldn’t we be obviating the need for legalizing the illegals?
(Oh, did I offend some of the politically correct among you by using the word illegals? Well to effing bad! Somebody who enters a country, any country, illegally has broken the law. They are not “undocumented”, they are illegal! They are criminals. A person who robs a bank is not an “undocumented withdrawer” they are a criminal!)
So think of the positive affects this would have. We would have many of our unemployed young people put to work. This would remove them from any welfare rolls they may have been on (a savings to us all). They would be a contributing member of society who pays taxes and would thus understand what it is to actually be vested in the society from a contributor’s standpoint. Every active member of the workforce is then in a position to improve their lot through effort and education. Employed individuals are less likely to commit crimes, so the crime rate would decline, which would reduce pressure on the legal system and the prisons, allowing more time and resources to be spent on other law breakers. (See earlier parenthetical comment.)
So why are these jobs having to be filled by illegals? Why aren’t our businesses filling these vacancies with our unemployed?
I would posit that there are a myriad of reasons, but topping the list might well be that our governmental welfare system has created a culture where living off of the dole is not viewed as something to be looked down upon. That getting a job and being productive is viewed as a negative. Why work when I’m doing OK without working?
Intentionally or unintentionally, the do gooders in Washington have so successfully removed the stigma of living off the government that they have created an entire underclass that will be perpetually on the take. They have little to no incentive to get off the dole. The system has been set up were a high percentage of our perpetual poor have heat in the winter and AC in the summer. They have flat screen TVs and cell phones. They have computers and the internet. They have EBT cards so as not to harm their egos by having to use food stamps in front of the other folks in the store, singling them out as takers instead of contributors.
So what then do our business leaders and political class see as the answer? Why let’s just make all these law breakers legal with the stroke of a pen. Then we will have all of these “legal” workers at our finger tips to pay taxes and pay for the welfare.
Isn’t this a self-perpetuating downward spiral that will draw more folks into the country illegally and entice more people onto the dole, so we have to legalize the illegals to pay for those on the dole, that will then draw more illegals, and on and on and on……
Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.
