Standard and Poor's downgrades US to AA+

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

There is construction, if there weren't I would not be paying taxes. I see plenty of people that are most definitely not my neighbors mowing lawns and trimming hedges while driving trucks that say "O'Brien's Landscaping" on the side, not one looks Irish. I am still eating vegatables from the farms that surround my home and ones from California, Florida, North Carolina, etc. Someone is picking these. Texas is irrelevant and should be left out of most conversations involving the rest of the country, they are fine, just ask them. I am imagining your work does not take you around the country to 20-30 states per year and twice as many cities and towns, as I recall you are a veterinarian, but I can assure you that homes are being built and they are being built (mostly) by hard working, non-tax paying, undocumented workers.
Not accusing laziness, just complacency. Easy to confuse the two.

So you're sticking with, "If we just kicked them off unemployment, they'd find jobs".

If only that unemployed, $60,000 a year IT technologist would get a job trimming your hedges! If only they would take the jobs of the undocumented farm workers and construction workers.

How unbelievably naive.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

So you're sticking with, "If we just kicked them off unemployment, they'd find jobs".

If only that unemployed, $60,000 a year IT technologist would get a job trimming your hedges! If only they would take the jobs of the undocumented farm workers and construction workers.

How unbelievably naive.

I'm sorry but if that 60k per year IT worker cant find a job working IT, but can find a job trimming hedges. That is what he/she should do, while he/she continues to look for a job in IT.

whats the alternative? dont work and collect tax payer funded unemployment?

How unbelievably ignorant.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

I'm sorry but if that 60k per year IT worker cant find a job working IT, but can find a job trimming hedges. That is what he/she should do, while he/she continues to look for a job in IT.

whats the alternative? dont work and collect tax payer funded unemployment?

How unbelievably ignorant.

Of course they should take any job they could get (and afford to live upon - even if it takes two jobs) - but those jobs are not available. They are not existent. There are not millions of jobs sitting there empty, unfilled because the lazy unemployed class won't take them.

How unbelievably ignorant.