Congrats To US
Posted on 12/30/2016 12:07:12 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Mike Rowe has been known to speak his mind on several issues here in America. However, his most recent outburst is a result of the suffering job market, and he explained exactly why it’s been happening with one blunt word that will undoubtedly infuriate liberals.
The American job market has been suffering for years. There are many people out of work, unable to make ends meet. However, former host of Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe, recently exposed why our country’s job market is suffering, and he did it with one brutal word that has gotten whiny libs infuriated – all because the truth hurts.
Rowe admitted that the U.S. job market is suffering not for lack of opportunity, but because American workers are just “spoiled.” If we’ve learned anything from the events following this year’s presidential election, it’s that there are many whiny, entitled, brats roaming our nation.
According to Young Cons, Rowe recalled that he “kept hearing reports of joblessness across the country.” However, when he would go perform “dirty,” blue-collar work for his television program, he would often see “help wanted” signs along the way, indicating that there are blue collar positions available everywhere — they’re just not the jobs people think they deserve.
According to The Blaze, there are nearly 100 million people not in the labor force today. Sadly, many of these entitled brats could land themselves a well-paying blue collar job anywhere across America, but because they feel they are “more qualified” or deserve a white collar job, they would rather collect unemployment or merely be unpaid than to accept a blue collar position. They want to get paid good money, but they want to do it without getting their hands dirty.
Clearly, America has a growing problem: entitlement. When your family is suffering, you do whatever it takes to get food on the table and pay your bills – even if it means accepting a “dirty” job when you’ve previously been in positions higher up on the corporate ladder. Personally, the people who work these blue collar jobs are the people who keep America thriving, and if a few more people got their hands dirty, our country could quite possibly be in a completely different situation.
I grew up in the country. I know what hard work is, and I know that anyone willing to do hard work will never be unemployed for very long.
Thanks for that post - our church makes a big deal out of seeing the spiritual in everyday things - including work. And - get this - there will be work in Heaven!
I remember my dad telling the story - he was talking to a guy and said “You know - I’m so lucky to be a builder. Build homes for people that will bring them so much comfort and happiness, and the memories! It sure is a God-given joy to be a builder. Pretty much the next best job to serve people, just after the preacher!”
The guy replied “How about me - I am a doctor you know!”
“Well sure - I suppose doctors are probably pretty high up there too.”
But even my daughter working part-time at the pizza shop realizes how important her job is, and doing hard work is important. She ends up closing by herself (”Jimmy just leaves!”), she went in early with a gallon of bleach from home to clean (”I’ve told the manager three times that he needs to buy bleach and clean under the sinks!”).
I told her - “Remember those group projects in school where you ended up doing all the work and the others slacked off. And remember how I said it was preparing you for the real world?”
Back in the day when I went to HS in a small CT town, no one would be granted a diploma unless they took some courses involving a job skill. My ability to type, take shorthand, and do basic bookkeeping served me well when there was no market for a person who could explain the wonders of trigonometry brilliantly.
“Is there a Christian in the room?”
The standard is set without a word spoken.
Same thing with my employer. My company has a high turnover rate in its call center. They hire and train, but lose the new employees to a competitor across the street, paying $2-$3/hr more for the same positions. My company’s answer to the problem is to hire temps, not up the hourly pay to retain talent. Stupidity to the nth degree.
I cringe that a capitalist thread has to use a socialist meme .....
1) We're both in God's Country (Texas)
2) We share the same "FR Birthdate"!
'-)
Congrats To US
I have had rough, dirty, hands my entire life.
Even when I got promoted to what was normally considered a white collar, management position, I still did most of the work day in the field; teaching, and showing with hands on demonstrations.
I reserved all the unpaid overtime hours for the paperwork involved with the job, I always made sure I could be reached immediately for any emergencies when I was doing field work.
When I retired, upper management hired a typical “I AM AN EXECUTIVE” type to fill my vacant position; after about 6 months of constant complaints from the field offices, they finally fired the manicured, well groomed, dumbass and hired the crewman I recommended.
I can happily report that he is doing very well, and the all the crews are getting the jobs done, on time and under budget.
So did I but I switched back to booze... ;)
ATT is installing fiber in my neighborhood. Entails digging holes about every 10 ft to depth of 3 ft or more.
I tried to talk to some of them. There was one, one small woman that spoke a little English, out of 10-15 workers. One !
Told my wife ATT and subs would be hard pressed to find Americans that would do their job.
Exactly.....and I cant say I blame them.....work or hang out for the same return is an easy pick without some form of personal penalty, morality not withstanding.......and I too know many that “hangout” because they DO calculate and are glad to explain the finer details of Why.....When welfare is perceived as a “Right”...its a no brainer...
If you can’t hire someone talented enough to do a job at the rate you fixed then either the work doesn’t get done or it’s not worth it. So it works both ways. It is BS to say you can’t get anyone at a certain rate and there is no such thing as a wage ceiling. If you are unwilling to pay the prevailing wage then your competition will pay the prevailing wage and stay in business.
I'd like Free Republic to attract smart young people into the fold. But crap like you just posted is such a turn off and plain stupid. You re out of touch with reality.
Let me fix it for you: hard pressed to find Americans that would do their job at the wages being offered
If the illegal labor wasn’t around, the wages would be forced to rise and then Americans would love to have those jobs. Right now people don’t want to do the job because the wage is below true market value.
Spoiled because they get paid too much when they don’t work. The benefits appear to be too good.
A hand up is fine but hand outs have gone to far.
I saw a sign on the marque in town when I went to pay my property taxes today. It made me angry and sick. Here is what it said:
“Manage well to give freely.”
Don’t know the context or reason for the message but it came from some little red book.
I’ve given all I am going to. Most people are where they are because of bad decisions. Well tough. Deal with it. That is what I’ve had to do when I made a bad decision. Fortunately I’ve made made more good decisions than bad ones. My gate is closed and so is my pocket book to the greatest extent I can keep it that way.
Sick of free loaders and slackers. Get to work. Make something of yourself. If you can’t do that you deserve short rations not the same that I’ve worked, saved and managed well for.
This is a land of equal opportunity not equal outcome.
In southern California, I’ve heard restaurants won’t hire kitchen staff unless they speak Spanish. That kind of locks out most American teens.
If I were in charge of ICE, those would be the first places I would audit for proper documentation. And none of this letting them off with a warning as long as they let the illegals go. Fine those restaurants to the full extent of the law for ICE and IRS violations and put the IRS in charge of collecting the fines.
Your dad had it nailed.
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