May 4th 09, 07:15 AM
View From Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: Good Luck High School Graduates!
Obama Plans To Import 138,000 Workers A Month To Take Your Jobs
By Joe Guzzardi
>>" For the Lodi Unified School District’s high school seniors, most face the bleakest employment prospects since the Great Depression.
To those who persevered and earned diplomas, I offer my sincere
congratulations. You’ve bought some time to wait for an economic
recovery—two years if you pursue an associate’s degree or four years
if you attend college.
But for those who dropped out or will not be going further
academically, their job prospects are particularly grim. Those young
teens are on the brink of living empty, dependent and ultimately
fruitless lives that will take them well into adulthood as they move
from one meaningless job to another.
Even leaving the San Joaquin Valley for bigger markets like San
Francisco or Los Angeles won’t help. California’s 11. 2 percent
unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation.
Statistics indicate that if young adults are not gainfully employed
between the ages of the 18 to 29, they become essentially lost to the
working world. If you’re 30 and have no job experience, you’re
unqualified to fill any but the most menial jobs.
By that age, those on the fringe have learned how to access public
services and charitable safety nets. In other words, they know how to
live without working.
While Americans are concerned about the nation’s overall 8 percent
unemployment rate, the figures when broken down are even more
alarming.
Latest available official unemployment rates for those 18-29 year olds
with only a high school diploma who are actively looking for a job but
cannot find one are:
* 12.5 percent for foreign-born
* 15.7 percent for native-born Hispanic Americans
* 17.6 percent for native-born Americans (all races)
* 26.1 percent for native-born Black Americans
If you also count those who want a full-time job but can only find a
part-time work and also those who aren't looking for a job at all any
more because of their repeated inability to find one, the statistics
are much worse.
The percentage of those who don't have a full-time job include
* 39.3 percent of foreign-born
* 35.7 percent of native-born Hispanic Americans
* 37.3 percent of native-born Americans (all races)
* 47.1 percent for native-born Black Americans
Despite the astronomical unemployment level, corporate Beltway
lobbyists on the right—most prominent among them the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce—are working in tandem with open-borders advocates from the
left to fill the few available jobs with non-immigrant visa holders
and illegal aliens.
Incredibly, the Obama administration that promised to create or save
four million jobs, is entertaining the idea of creating a new work
permit level of 138,000 each month.
Most who would receive them would go into direct competition with less-
educated, under-skilled Americans. If the higher cap on visas is
approved, more than 1.5 million workers would come to the U.S. over a
one-year period.
And the irony of the National Council of La Raza and the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops is hard to miss. Both pretend to have
the best interests of Hispanics at heart but are actually acting
against them by promoting higher levels of immigration that in turn
creates a larger labor base. In case you have forgotten the basic Law
Of Supply And Demand: more workers equal fewer jobs.
When it comes to the federal government’s promises to our high school
students about their bright futures, they only job our graduates can
count on is the proverbial and non-paying snow job. " <<
http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/090501_vfl.htm
Obama Plans To Import 138,000 Workers A Month To Take Your Jobs
By Joe Guzzardi
>>" For the Lodi Unified School District’s high school seniors, most face the bleakest employment prospects since the Great Depression.
To those who persevered and earned diplomas, I offer my sincere
congratulations. You’ve bought some time to wait for an economic
recovery—two years if you pursue an associate’s degree or four years
if you attend college.
But for those who dropped out or will not be going further
academically, their job prospects are particularly grim. Those young
teens are on the brink of living empty, dependent and ultimately
fruitless lives that will take them well into adulthood as they move
from one meaningless job to another.
Even leaving the San Joaquin Valley for bigger markets like San
Francisco or Los Angeles won’t help. California’s 11. 2 percent
unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation.
Statistics indicate that if young adults are not gainfully employed
between the ages of the 18 to 29, they become essentially lost to the
working world. If you’re 30 and have no job experience, you’re
unqualified to fill any but the most menial jobs.
By that age, those on the fringe have learned how to access public
services and charitable safety nets. In other words, they know how to
live without working.
While Americans are concerned about the nation’s overall 8 percent
unemployment rate, the figures when broken down are even more
alarming.
Latest available official unemployment rates for those 18-29 year olds
with only a high school diploma who are actively looking for a job but
cannot find one are:
* 12.5 percent for foreign-born
* 15.7 percent for native-born Hispanic Americans
* 17.6 percent for native-born Americans (all races)
* 26.1 percent for native-born Black Americans
If you also count those who want a full-time job but can only find a
part-time work and also those who aren't looking for a job at all any
more because of their repeated inability to find one, the statistics
are much worse.
The percentage of those who don't have a full-time job include
* 39.3 percent of foreign-born
* 35.7 percent of native-born Hispanic Americans
* 37.3 percent of native-born Americans (all races)
* 47.1 percent for native-born Black Americans
Despite the astronomical unemployment level, corporate Beltway
lobbyists on the right—most prominent among them the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce—are working in tandem with open-borders advocates from the
left to fill the few available jobs with non-immigrant visa holders
and illegal aliens.
Incredibly, the Obama administration that promised to create or save
four million jobs, is entertaining the idea of creating a new work
permit level of 138,000 each month.
Most who would receive them would go into direct competition with less-
educated, under-skilled Americans. If the higher cap on visas is
approved, more than 1.5 million workers would come to the U.S. over a
one-year period.
And the irony of the National Council of La Raza and the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops is hard to miss. Both pretend to have
the best interests of Hispanics at heart but are actually acting
against them by promoting higher levels of immigration that in turn
creates a larger labor base. In case you have forgotten the basic Law
Of Supply And Demand: more workers equal fewer jobs.
When it comes to the federal government’s promises to our high school
students about their bright futures, they only job our graduates can
count on is the proverbial and non-paying snow job. " <<
http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/090501_vfl.htm