[RedBeard searches yellow pages for a good lawyer]

The United States sometime ago decided that a fair wage for such jobs did not necessarily mean making enough to live on. Therefore we have a whole class of workers that live just above Third World standards here in our country. Is it any wonder that we have people from the Third World coming here to take those jobs. Labor goes where the job are. The mirror of this is outsourcing, where corporations seek the cheapest labor elsewhere. Why pay middle income people middle income wages when you can outsource employees to some other country who will only expect a third of that wage. The ideal corporate labor model of the future will outsource every job possible to maximize profit margins.

I’m hoping to take this idea to the next level and start outsourcing CEOs to Mexico and Guatemala. Why pay 10 million a year for an American Vice President, when you can get a qualified Mexican to do the same job for 50,000 a year.

Well said. Sometimes it escapes us that guidance is often needed, even for some seemingly simple procedures such as looking for work. Take the two unemployed young men I mentioned earlier. They apparently never had the advantage of caring families to instruct them in the ways of the world. They seemed totally oblivious to the reasons they were unemployed. The connection between having a job and actually going out to apply for one was something they could not seem to understand.

Perhaps I should have done a bit of mentoring, and helped them to understand what needed to be done to find a job. All this is assuming that these guys would actually prefer being employed over being on the dole, and that question remains open.

I have seen first hand how destructive being unmotivated to do honest work can be to a community. It turned the neighborhood I grew up into Dodge City in the 1980s. Guys and dolls were chasing fast money to get “bling” and killing each other like it was going out of style. I’d rather make minimum wage and eat my bread in peace than have to look over my shoulder while scarfing down a filet mignon. But that is just me.

I can only hope my example will motivate the young dudes and dudettes I come in contact with. All of the talk about capitalism and communism is just that: TALK. Values must be LIVED so that those that need to apply them to their lives can see that there is indeed value in doing things the “right” way. Those of us that are talented and/or prosperous can and should do more help others see what we already have figured out.

I just believe that unemployment isn’t an intractable problem. Sometimes it is just a matter of passing out a little information so that some young man or woman will know where to go to get what they need. It doesn’t take too much to take someone by the hand and point them in the right direction. All it takes is a little AGAPE…

Blacks might have something to say about that.

Blacks might not wish to parade around in a circle, in the hot sun, carrying a sign for someone else’s agenda.

But, the Migrants and Illegal Aliens are more than happy to do it.

When Blacks held those types of jobs, it truly was a stepping stone to bigger and better.

Blacks didn’t want Unions, they wanted to quickly rise up and out.

Unions insure a permanent underclass, always tied to the Union, and negotiate ever rising wages, which means little incentive for the Illegals to ever rise up.

In most states, teachers earn a very meager wage and have ridiculously expensive benefit packages.

This whole situation is about economics, but Fox was taking the opportunity to get his jabs in at us while he could. Employers know they can hire immigrants (legals or not) at a far lower wage (especially illegals) and improve their bottom line. Many groups of people (not just blacks) consider that type of wage below them and so won’t take the job…especially if they can find government assistance that pays better. Other groups find the type of work unappealing, so they won’t work…especially if they can find government assistance.

There is one other final motivation, which a commenter mentioned above. There is way too much “fast money” available. I see it daily at the campus I work at. Young men talk more about the “hustle” then they do about college. And why not? When they see their friends “getting their hustle on” and coming to school in new Phat Farm, Jordans and riding on shiny rims and putting gold on their teeth, they get lured very easily into that lifestyle. You can also see the evidence of this by examining our jail and prison population. There are two things that stand out: under 25, and a minority. Until parents and the community starts digging in and doing their jobs, and helping us at the schools win this battle to work hard and do what’s right…fast money will win a lot more than it loses. And the kids are the ones who lose in the end.

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0606/031.html?

Additionally, he proposes that you cold file your taxes on the new way or old way with dual systems so nobody could say they lose in the new system. This is being done by Hong Kong right now.

Capitalism is the economic system where people choose who gets what resources.

Socialism and Communism are economic systems where the government chooses who gets what resources.

Through unions and safety nets (government programs where taxes are levied and redistributed to those in need) and being a nation of laws (anti-monopoly, environmental, minimum wage, child labor) we have been able to make sure that not one entity controls too much etc.

Capitalism can’t have morals… it’s a system of economics. Capitalism is the very best economic system to make sure your country and people prosper and that people are able to exercise their free will.

People have morals or not. There WAS a need for unions and anti-monopoly laws and this and that regulation.

Now we’ve gotten into a situation where there are 1,000’s of regulations added each year, unions pull dues out of people’s paychecks every month and spend it on politics and the government taxes and spends too much and has 100’s of programs trying to help those in need creating hammocks for those who are able-bodied.

Guess that’s cause I’m an attorney.

As for the rest of your post- Black people are my people. Americans are my people. Folks from Philly are my people. Hope that clears that up.

Riddle me this, Pajama, aren’t drug dealers the ultimate capitalists? Prostitutes? Pimps?
How about monopolies? Is $20.00/bag for ice appropriate in the wake of a hurricane?

Are you even aware what capitalisim is?

Because we have an economy BASED on capitalist principles, doesn’t make us wholly capitalistic.

Here’s a book for you, since you are so keen on offering suggestions.

Adam Smith- Wealth of Nations.

Take two and call me in the morning.

Signed

(Juris) Dr. Stephen J