Posted on 07/15/2010 7:16:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some folks think that Obama is trying to re-shape America into a communist society. Maybe. What I think he’s trying to do is to destroy what we are. The coming Dark Ages isn’t going to be a result of failed policies. It will be the result of successful policies.
In some of the more affluent neighborhoods around me, teenagers don’t WANT to work. If they have a job it’s only because Dad MADE them get one, and it is only a matter of time until they can figure a good way to get themselves fired
and go back to the videogames and cruising around in cars their parents bought for them.
In the less affluent neighborhoods, teenagers are all getting sucked into Americorps-type GovJobs programs that offer college tuition benefits, free meals and above-minimum wages for “community organizing”.
Sounds like you confused the poor lib with facts.
You don't understand their real problem with this. These internships are not fair because not everyone is offered them. Only the motivated take these internships, much like private school vouchers. What about the slug who has no ambition and doesn't understand the benefits of experience? It is not fair that he is ‘left behind’. If we all can't progress, none of us can, (unless you are in a union then the rules are different.)
You have to understand the democrat value system. It is better to get unemployment benefits from the government than to take a job that pays less then democrats say is fair, even if unemployment benefits pay much less than that fair wage.
Why not raise unemployment benefits to the minimum wage for 40 hours? Why do democrats not pay a 'fair' wage?
All too often we focus on politics as the source of our problems. Politics is just a reflection of culture, however, and that's where I try to look for answers to long-term developments. This author is a great cultural observer, and it was a pleasure to read this article. Thanks again.
An added benefit to the owners. The hourly wage hasn't changed much since the 80s.
I can remember working in fast food in HS in the late 70s.
There was a recession and we were happy to get minimum wage ($3.32/hr).
Everyone, even the graveyard shift was either HS or Junior College age, and all were native born.
This was in a relatively crummy neighborhood outside NYC.
Fast forward 10 years (1989), I was attending school and working part time in fast food.
Now the wage was about $8.00/hr , which was above minimum wage by about $3.00/hr.
This was a nice suburb in NJ and about 1/2 the crew was foreign born.
Today, almost nobody is native born, and the wage is still about $8.00/hr.
Yep! It is the paradigm shift to atheist moral relativism taught in the schools. Children in early America had to work with their parents—help on the farms—pull their weight in the family. It was expected and Godly.
Then Progressives created forced schooling. Made it illegal to have kids “work” through child abuse laws prior to age 16.
Amish have special dispensation but, then again, they raise children with true self-esteem, not this fake superficial kind which is promoted by government laws and tv 24/7.
Hard work creates true self esteem. When you create and make things and learn how to control the environment—it creates true self esteem and humility.
Governments have intentionally created laws to change children’s thinking with intense effort to destroy what was called the Protestant Work Ethic and because of it, it has not only destroyed the family unit because respect is destroyed—not just respect for one another—but the one for oneself.
My parents would have been prosecuted for child abuse if they raised me and my siblings as they did. This government intrusion is the start of the destruction of the family and the elimination parental control.
I was the roof-top delivery designatee when I was in high school. I could carry three bundles at once. It definately bulked me up for football. We also did not use nail guns until I was in college.
I believe the unions were behind the push to prohibit teenagers from many of the traditional summer and part-time jobs;hoping to push wages and overtime even higher for union workers already in the workforce.
Don’t tell me that there are jobs Americans won’t do!!!
My husband owned a roofing business, and it generally took from a day or so to a week or more to do a complete roof. Some roofs have multiple layers that take a long time to clean off. Then, there are other problems they might find, like rotted wood. On top of that, weather is a factor. As for flirting with girls...illegal immigrants don’t do that? hmmmm... There are good and bad workers in every group of people. The point is, that white people work just as hard or harder than anyone else, and it’s a myth they won’t do jobs that illegals do.
It was more miscellaneous rambling from a retired phart, LOL
Yes, you are right. The unions are just one of the arms of the Progressive (marxist) movement, though, which is working 24/7 to
CHANGE the way children and adults process information....it is called brainwashing.
Homosexual movement, feminist movement, unions....all working to reeducate little Johnny so that he doesn’t discriminate—so that he will never be able to discriminate—Never be able to decide Good v. Evil. Never be able to think logically or believe in absolute truth...God. If they get rid of the concept of God, then they have the power to control your world, since your rights come from man.
Marxism is all about control....esp. about how one thinks. They have to get rid of old fashioned Aristotelian logic and reason. Then the “feelings” will rule and you can always control that with drugs. Make little robots. You need to be happy—take this pill. Oh, you feel depressed—take this pill...........Brave New World describes this hell hole.
This attitude has ruined a generation of young people who have no clue about adult life skills. Most do not have the skills to do any type of work, have no work ethic and want to start at or near the top. Most don’t have basic finance skills to even maintain a lifestyle in an apartment and get basic bills paid.
I have said all along that one of the truly tragic things about hiring illegals is they take those very important first jobs away from our young people. Those first jobs are where you learn work ethic, getting along with others and other vital things to succeed in any job. They also take the ladder jobs away from people who don’t want to go to college so it is extremely hard for them to start at the bottom and work their way up in construction and service industries especially due to mass hiring of illegals.
This country will always have this type of work and it does our own citizens no service to keep our citizens out of those jobs. We truly need to deport all illegals and open those jobs up to our unemployed and young people so that they can learn the skills and confidence to be productive citizens.
One thing you need to know is that once illegals are brought into the workplace they force out citizen workers. Illegals will take over a workplace by making it impossible for citizens to work there and promote every opening to an illegal friend or relative. Employers that choose to hire illegals usually go to a nearly all illegal work force as much as possible for economic reasons but also because it makes it less likely they will be reported for working illegals.
There is also the illegal created work environment that most don’t want to talk about becuase it will get you called racist. Most illegal workers are adults working in jobs that were formerly teen or young adult jobs in this country. Many have drinking and drug abuse issues as well as different views of relationships. To put it bluntly many are the dregs of Mexico’s society. Citizen adults find it impossible to work with them and most parents that are aware of the situation with many illegals would really NOT want their teens to work with them. I know many parents that will not let thier children even apply for work at places that hire illegals- with good reason.
Now we do indeed have young adults that are dependent on their parents or social services when they should be self supporting. It is a by-product of allowing illegal workers. We need to deport all illegals and open up those jobs. Get our young people back into the work force and make them self reliant again.
I was a furniture mover on the South Side of Chicago, located in Roseland, back in the late 1970s. Back then, we (white people) could go into bars and restaurants all over Roseland; now it’s a de facto no-go war zone for my race. We did jobs all over the city, in rough neighborhoods, and in the best neighborhoods. Being a south suburbanite from a wealth community, with a physician father and upper middle class upbringing, it opened my eyes. I worked with rough guys, many of whom were Chicago Public School teachers working to make ends meet. I would not trade that experience for anything, and it’s a shame today’s teens and 20-somethings don’t do this type of work.
I too worked fast food in the late 70s as a high school kid. I did not consider it to be a “low level job”. it was just a job. I was sixteen for heavens sakes. In still went on to college and graduated and have a career.. etc..
I think this notion, that “middle class families” would consider those jobs to be too menial for their children is false. Learning to go to work on time and take direction from a supervisor can begin to teach a teen about work ethic.
A teen flipping few burgers in the summer will NOT set a kids course in life.
...”local crackers”...
You can use this term only if you are from Florida...LOL
believe me we have plenty in Indiana, largely south of I70, LOL or locally termed hilljack
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