Jobs Americans Won't Do: Voodoo Economics from the White House.

National Review Online ^ | January 07, 2004 | Mark Krikorian

[sarcasm]

Hey...that's great Mark..If you like scarfing at Sizzler, it's all good, but many of us prefer our dining out to be Dining.

Them be willing to pay the true cost of such service instead of foisting it off on the taxpayers.

[eleni121]

You've been listening to the AFL CIO unionists who don't know beans about wages or labor or upward mobility if it smacked them in the face.

In fact, this policy will unleash thousands of more businesses allowing them to hire employees who are thankful for a job and do a great job at it! It will also allow the feds to collect taxes on formerly untaxed labor and bring the folks into the US family honorably.

Bravo President Bush!

[StatesEnemy]

There already is a "Living Wage"

It's all the social programs directed at those below the poverty line - which subsidize this cheap labor pool for these barons.

[Dane]

Yeah so? Willie Green would be posting Luddite articles making the machines doing human work the enemy, rather than Mexicans, so what's the point?

[Beck_isright]

"The idea that a modern society like ours requires the ministrations of foreign workers, because there is no other way to do get these jobs done, smacks of the apocryphal quote from a 19th-century patent commissioner: "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Amen again.

[sarcasm]

In fact, this policy will unleash thousands of more businesses allowing them to hire employees who are thankful for a job and do a great job at it! It will also allow the feds to collect taxes on formerly untaxed labor and bring the folks into the US family honorably.

Get ready to pay higher taxes to subsidize them and their families

[eleni121]

barons

Absurd terminology. The average entrepreneur struggles to keep his business afloat: regulations, insurance, lawsuits, ad nauseum.

Most folks start out making low wages and move up. Some are eligible for government programs (food stamps, lower cost insurance) but not all and a minimal net is useful for all not just those who receive them.

The "social programs" you should be fretting about are mostly directed at the middle and upper classes. Think about it!

[hobbes1]

ROTFLMAO!!!!.....The Most Brilliant observation to date, Dane.

[rbessenger]

These jobs that "Americans won't do" should be filled by y9ooung Americans, teens and college students. Employment is a learned behavior. I hire people all the time and you'd be surprised how many young people who enter the workforce who have never had a job and don't understand the work environment. Practices such as coming to work on time, showing up every day, ethical honest work habits, productivity. So many of the young people I have hired think they are in the building (at work) they are do pay- even if they are not productive. I'd rather train a young person the ethics of work at a minimum wage busboy job then to try to explain the basics to a kid who has a degreee in civil engineering but thinks a two hour lunch is OK.

If not young people, then people who are holding down one medium pay job and need another part time job to get ahead. There is no reason to give jobs to anyone other then Americans in America.

[WackyKat]

You've been listening to the AFL CIO unionists who don't know beans about wages or labor or upward mobility if it smacked them in the face. In fact, this policy will unleash thousands of more businesses allowing them to hire employees who are thankful for a job and do a great job at it! It will also allow the feds to collect taxes on formerly untaxed labor and bring the folks into the US family honorably.

I didn't know The National Review was AFL_CIO publication! thanks for informing me

All this is going to "unleash" is a further depression of American wages and another wave of 10-15 million (illegal) workers who have been given the greenlight to come here because this country refuses to enforce its borders or laws

I'm sure it will make the corporate internationalists very happy , though, with all the serfs they'll have to exploit

[eleni121]

Most of my taxes go to subsidize union-made products and sevices that could be produced for lots less.

Most of my taxes go to pay for union techers who can't pass the teacher board exams and who make more than the average space scientist.

[sarcasm]

[StatesEnemy]

The average entrepreneur struggles to keep his business afloat: regulations, insurance, lawsuits, ad nauseum.

Hey I'm ALL FOR streamlining the bureaucratic process, going after greedy insurance companies, and creating meaningful tort reform.

That doesn't mean I think that corporate America should have the right to shift the TRUE COST of their workers upon the US Taxpayer.

[eleni121]

Don't just spout off for the sake of spouting off.

Read the President's proposals and then comment. A large part of them refer to the border situation and the monitoring of illegals under his proposals.

As for the unions - They blabber the same thing you posted. I was responding to that not the NRO article.

[Age of Reason]

Americans work underground in coal mines under threat of cave-ins and poison gas.

Americans work as garbage men, outdoors in all kinds of weather, each man lifting several tons of stinking, leaking garbage every day.

Americans work in sewers and Americans work hundreds of feet in the air walking steel beams.

There is no job Americans won't do.

[wasp69]

I think we could end this lazy streak that some in this country have by ending welfare and closing the border. Then again, there are some "jobs" or elected officials "won't do".

[jpsb]

Yea, right, Bush just lost my vote and the GOP just lost the 200 bucks I usually send them.

Bye the way, you get good service by tipping, try it some time.

[StatesEnemy]

I have a hundred dairy cows...

Those industrious Holsteins produce vats of milk and cream every day for my bottom line (and my shareholders)... and the best part?

Their barn was built (and is heated) with taxpayer money (subsidized housing).

Their feed? You guessed it, bought by the "commonwealth" (food stamps)

When one of them gets sick? I send the vet bill to Washington.

What A Country!

[jonatron]

Even if there is a labor-shortage, there's plenty of Welfare recipients and Convicts available to work off their debt to the government for all the services they're provided with.