Okay, there probably aren't enough jobs for everyone in the U.S., but there are jobs out there, some people aren't willing to go out and work them. What brought this subject to my mind was an article in the paper about apple orchards in Washington state. The farmers needed people to come and pick apples and they were offering hundred and fifty dollars a day. No one took the offer. These farmers were even willing to buy the bus tickets for people to come out to the orchards! This is a state with an unemployment rate of about nine percent! I think the problem is over education. Most kids go to school and picture themselves doing something where they work in an office. No one is willing to to physical labor. Its underneath them. What confuses me though, is that sitting on the couch receiving unemployment is not underneath these jobless people. Ughh, welfare is a topic for another rant. Anyways, people not taking the apple picking jobs is not the worst part of the whole situation, the proposed solution was what really killed me. Instead of doing something to motivate Americans to take the jobs, which would be better for our economy, the Washington government suggested that the federal government should make it easier for illegal aliens to get into America. That way, the illegal aliens could go up there and pick the apples. The whole situation disgusts me. The fact that some people in our country are to lazy to get up and get a job, instead they would rather wait comfortably on welfare, taking money from other honest workers, and then the government wants to fix this by importing workers from a different country? I don't see how this fixes the bigger problems, this solution just deals with the minor problem of people not getting their apples! They aren't factoring in the big picture, how Americans need to make money, how this would help our economy a lot more than if some illegal alien took the money and sent it out of the country, never to return again. Jesus, the whole thing just bemuses me. Stupid people.
I agree with you. Our economy is so bad, and there are probably so many other stories like this that could help the economy become better but the government doesn't take it as a way to help the economy, but instead just takes the easy way out of the situation. I think that sometimes stories like these probably seem insignificant to the people in congress and so they overlook it, but I think if they actually did something about all the small things like this, then there could be a huge difference and it could help our economy a lot.
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