This morning I has breakfast in a diner. There was a young man there who had just finished his first night at a job loading trucks. He did not have anything good to say about his employer. It seems that they were in a jam and had asked him to work an extra four hours to help them out. He had refused.
He was newly divorced and had come into town on the bus. He had been in town less than a week. He was nearly broke. He said somebody (probably a church) had given him a bag of groceries to last until his first paycheck. He was staying in a motel on a housing chit. He had no car, nothing but a suitcase of clothes.
They had started him at $13.00+ an hour. The extra four hours would have been overtime at $20.00 an hour. Here he was sitting in a coffeeshop snorting that he wasn't married to no damn job and that he had better things to do. This was his first day, the best that his employer can ever expect to see him. I've got an idea that he's on someone's short list.
I suspect that a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain before the attitude adjustment is finished.
There are some new articles out --- one published by some black caucus guy about black and hispanic unemployment being way up --- whites are sometimes lazy --- but overall whites have the best employment statistics --- and that's in spite of affirmative action working against them. We've got serious problems here with hispanic youth unemployment and the kids running in gangs which are often violent, white kids seem to be working for the most part.
ENGEL: HISPANIC UNEMPLOYMENT SKYROCKETS,
JOBLESS RECOVERY CONTINUES
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny17_engel/pr020405.html I think the democrats will be doing a lot of this --- when we say native born americans out of work it is generally the minorities who are more likely out of work -- and the democrats will promise them good jobs.