Has anyone noticed that Detroit city is rusting away? Have any of you checked to see which American companies produce TV's,CD/DVD players, computers, toys, clothes and many of the items we use in our everyday lives? I can tell you, and you may or may not realize this but most of our everyday goods are not produced here in America anymore. A huge reason why is because of our labor unions and lawyers.
I understand that most folks want to make as much money as they can to afford a better life for them and their families. However, here in America, our unions have bankrupted our manufacturing base. Companies can not afford to pay for all the benefits and salaries that many Americans demand. If I were a wealthy manufacturing company owner I would look very seriously to other countries where the citizens aren't as greedy, and indeed grateful to even have a paycheck.
Part of this illegal immigration problem we have now is folks here that refuse to work for a living, at jobs they feel are beneath them. These Mexicans come up here and are grateful to be working, no matter the pay. They've came from a place where things really are rotten and even our most low paying jobs are a substantial improvement over life in Mexico. Of course, they get all the government handouts too and that sweetens the pot a little for them. I guess what I'm getting at is that if we send the Mexicans home, like we ought to, and cut out most of the government handouts, there would be lots of Americans more willing to work than there are now. There is nothing like having to do without as a motivator to work.
I hate to pick on my fellow country men but I'm going too. I have to include myself in this analogy somewhat. Go to the grocery store or just walk around in any public place and look at all the obese people walking around. Just about everyone you see is packing extra pounds and a lot of that is because nobody has to do hard work anymore. We've got far more than we need and it shows in our belt sizes. Drive in a lot of neighborhoods and see all the mini mansions and the fancy cars sitting in front of them. Look at all the swimming pools and the dozens of other things that most of the rest of the world can't afford. I meet very few kids that are not addicted to video games, and most of them would have a fit if they had to be outside all day instead of in front of a computer or tv set somewhere. The jobs that we hire Mexicans to do are the jobs that our teenagers used to do.
When I was a teenager, me and my best friend were painting contractors. For about 5 months out of the year there were not many men around that made any more money than we did. We owned our own equipment and we bid all our own jobs to boot. We had charge accounts at all the local lumber/paint stores in the area. I did all this before I turned 14 yrs old, my buddy was just barely old enough to drive at the time. We'd paint houses all day long and then go haul hay sometimes half the night. We didn't sleep under air conditioners and our vehicles didn't have them either. The only video games we ever saw were stuff we couldn't afford and to be honest, they were boring. Other kids worked at other things, but the point is, we all had to work. There weren't many fat kids around either. Our moms would've had a fit if we were caught sitting in the house on a pretty day. My mom wouldn't have let me sit in the house on a pretty day, I'd have got my butt whipped.
Many Americans have lived far beyond their means. Indeed, our government is the number one sinner in this category. Between the labor unions and the blood sucking lawyers our manufacturing base has fled this county over the last couple of decades, and who can blame them? I suppose, when enough people start starving, many folks are going to be willing to actually go earn their paycheck again like they did a few decades ago. We've forgotten, as a people, that hard work is the only thing that is going to save us and our country. These unions and blood sucking lawyers need to get out of the way and let our county go back to work.
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