10,000,000 and counting
January 12th, 2009
Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing for over two decades, drag-racing for 13 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
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I heard recently on the news that there are currently 10 million unemployed people in our country. And there are something like 7 million working illegal immigrants. Wow. So basically we could really solve our employment problem if we got rid of those illegal workers. Well, if that is how we want to solve it, then I guess we just need to depend on our trusty, handy, always there and diligently detail oriented government. But wait, maybe we don’t hold out for government to take action – because, let’s just say, sometimes they don’t come through the way we would hope they would. Well, what about this solution:
What if 7 million of the 10 million unemployed people started working harder than their illegal counterparts. Yeah, what if, instead of waiting for the government to solve the problem, people took responsibility and action for themselves and started working very hard. Then, perhaps, the illegal immigrants would go back home because a) there wouldn’t be any work left and b) they wouldn’t be able to out-work us. Wow – that still leaves 3 million unemployed, but most of them, I would guess, if we couldn’t get them to work before, we won’t be able to with this plan anyway. And with 7 million more taxpaying, legal, legitimate workers, we can probably afford 3 million freeloaders.
It’s kind of crazy but I think it is the old style thinking that made this country great, and if we lose it, will be our demise.