You may have misunderstood my post. Perhaps I didn’t make it clear enough.
I have some friends who are unemployed and I have talked with them a lot. But they have a better chance of landing a job than the high school drop out with long hair and droopy pants.
I don’t find them asking the government to ‘give them a job’ or ‘give them benefits’ because they would rather earn a job, not rely on the government to give them anything.
The job talk I was referring to was from the black community. Lots of talk about jobs but little effort devoted to learning the skills needed.
Most of my friends have the skills but their jobs have gone to India or some such place. One friend returned from her honeymoon to find that her job had gone to India and everyone over the age of 40 had been let go.
The market is bad out there and much worse for anyone over 40. Hang in there.
I do think that conservatives bristling over the ‘give me a job’ line is a bit of an over reaction.
It’s a matter of simple semantics. Nobody would think a thing about someone saying, “he gave me a job.”
But, in casual conversation, someone said, “I earned a job,” it comes across as somewhat arrogant.
A job is *work*. It’s not charity. But by acknowledging that someone has the power to give you a job, your saying that they didn’t have to. The *opportunity* to work is a gift.
If someone says, “I’d like someone to give me a job,” they’re just speaking common English. That’s what people say.
Gotcha. Thanks.