It's an idea...
Posted on 09/13/2005 8:03:16 AM PDT by hinterlander
Katrina has displaced hundreds of thousands of Americans who now need food, housing, and cash. Relief for those necessities will have to be temporary and it will be many months before they can return to New Orleans, if ever, so what they need most of all is jobs.
Our government should act immediately to put these displaced Americans in the jobs now held by illegal aliens. Some 10 million illegal aliens are now working in our country, so there is no excuse for not replacing a million of them with unemployed American citizens.
President Bush should announce an immediate crackdown on employers of illegals and set up a hiring database to match up the unemployed with jobs.
Remember how Bush was talking glibly about inviting "willing workers" to come here from other countries? We should give affirmative-action preference to willing workers from Louisiana and Mississippi.
Meanwhile, the Senate voted $10 billion and then another $50 billion for hurricane relief, and that's all deficit spending. Why not take that money out of . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
With the agencies giving out 4 figure debit cards to whoever stands in a refugee line, the incentive to actually work is a non starter.
That is a great idea. I thought of that one, last week, but cannot bring myself to believe that any significant percentage of those evacuees actually WANT to seek gainful employment. For many of them, it would be alien to their nature and their past count-on-Sugar-Daddy experience.
OK...lets think this through in the mind of an evacuee..
a) I sit in a hotel room, paid for by the government, watch TV, drink beer, and wait for my next check.
b) I get off my a55, go out and sweat for $7.50/hr, and start a life that involves hard work, saving, building, and growing out of my poverty.
What was the question?
You gotta be kidding. Illegal aliens do the work that our citizens are not willing to do. Which of them would take the outdoor, hard labor jobs that most of the illegals do? Now...I am against illegal aliens coming to this country and working....but they certainly fill a niche that our 'worthy' citizens will not fill. If there were no illegal aliens to take the low pay...employers might have to raise what they pay.
Kennedy is on the TV harumphing about 'unequal opportunity' for the poor. What a bloviating blob of blathering blubber!
option A will run out eventually. While I agree that it's an easy choice now. Just give it another month or two
The dems have been in control of NO for 100 years. That city is in ruins before the storm, economically and else-wise. The people were poor, broke, drugs, alcohol abuse, multipule children by multiple fathers. The dems had 100 years to FIX IT. But, did not. Bush is blamed for NO's poverty. Klinton was in charge for 8 years. Did he FIX NO's poverty? Atlanta's? Chicago's? NY City's? LA's? NO! A freaking government school educated person can see that, if he could get a view over the stack of free stuff, mostly given to him by big bad Wal Mart. Or looted.
Unfortunately Americans have to make enough to live on after taxes medical and other expenses. An illegal making $10 per hour under the table is in better shape than a citizen earning a taxable $12 per hour.
There also needs to be a BIG incentive for companies hiring American workers at a decent wage?
Good article. I love this lady.
I agree jobs for those who want them. That is the US. However, most in NO seemed to rely on the mailman for a paycheck not an employeer.
EXACTLY!
ABout 30 years ago my Mother stated, "Let me control the welfare receipients. They'll be out finding a job in a SECOND!"
It involves making them WORK or starve. Period.
what a crackpot idea, with a liberal like Bush in the Whitehouse, it'll never work.
It's an idea...
Back in the early days of John Englers governorship in Michigan he took a chain saw to the welfare rolls here. There was the expected screaming and crying but it worked.
I saw people who had lived on welfare for their entire adult lives scrambling to find work. In a few years those people were turning up at car dealerships to pick out new cars, talking to realtors about buying their first homes, and shopping on earned money instead of given money.
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