Thursday, January 11, 2024

Direct Them to the 4-Letter Word so They don't have to Live by the 3

    Get this: We are stacking migrants up in shelters, saying we don't have enough resources to care for them . . . at the very time the hospitality industry, the food-services industry, the farm-worker industry, and other such industries have hordes of open jobs.
   Hordes. There must be at least a million. 
   Ahem, aren't these migrants coming for just such jobs -- at least the good part of them? So, let's see, they arrive and we can't process them in fast enough, so we stack them up in homeless shelters and strand them on the streets and say we don't have the resources to take care of them.
   Good thinking, dude.
   Am I missing something here, or does this just not make sense? It simply doesn't add up. Don't we have enough common sense to see what the solution is?
   Give them jobs -- immediately. Yes, as quick as they arrive, have them in a job the next day. Give them a work card on the spot and point them down the street to the nearest hotel needing workers, and say, "You're here, you might as well earn your keep."
    Work is a four-letter word only to those who prefer a three-letter word, bed. And these immigrants, for the most part, are not lazy and bed-ridden.
   Why we complain about not having enough resources to take care of them is beyond me. If we lack the services to help them, let them serve themselves. 
    They are here. They are already on our soil. You might not like it, but they are here. You might say, Slap them right back on a plane and send them back to where they came from, but they have the right to pass through the immigration courts, first. And since they are here, they might as well be working while they are waiting.
   Work never hurt anyone, and it certainly isn't going to hurt an immigrant.
   Restaurants are discontinuing patio service because they lack enough employees. Large stores that were open all night have closed for those hours because they don't have enough workers. Employers are screaming for workers. Jobs are being wasted.
   Common sense doesn't have an uncle. Everyone is direct family. And everyone in the family should be able to see how to handle the immigration crisis. 

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