And so the right thing to do is to replace the American people with someone else?
Of course not.
The right thing to do is to require labor in exchange for any type of government assistance. You don’t work, you don’t eat, and you don’t get a Section 8 roof over your head. And the work you are given may not be to your liking, an incentive to learn how to do something more productive.
Quit giving union preferance for government contracts. Require that government contractors use the unemployed for unskilled jobs in those contracts. Quit throwing money at job training programs and put them to work cleaning offices and pouring concrete so they get experience and see the need to work their way up and out.
Same thing for unemployment compensation. Public work for public pay, with allowances for time-off to job hunt in your field.
Reduce the public payroll with subsistence jobs in exchange for minimum wage and basic government-supplied food and housing. Shrink government and put strings on benefits.
Write and pass a strict guest worker program that legalizes those workers we need for jobs going unfilled — put them on the books, paying taxes and into Social Security.
There are creative and workable answers to our dilemma, but hating Mexicans isn’t one of them. Ugly truth that nobody wants to admit is that Mexicans work their tails off while a lot of Americans sit on their butts wanting Uncle Sam to provide them a cell phone and food stamps.
That’s the root cause of the mess we’re in today. Can you imagine our underclass going to Mexico and surviving? Yet their underclass comes here and thrives. No government programs in Mexico, manual labor here.
You’re wrong about Mexicans on US government welfare. All they get is public education (which is a huge problem) and food stamps if the kids were born here and they’re below the poverty level. (Usually happens when the father’s construction or day labor dries up due to economy or bad weather.)
Nobody wants to tell the truth about these issues. It’s easier to blame Mexicans than to admit that half of our country would be up in arms if my suggestions were put forward.
Ugly, and I wish it were not true. But it is. I work in a position that sees it up close.