Comments on: UPDATED: Displacing America (Ready To Outsource)

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:54:36 +0000

Not hardly, Friday breakfast is a civic breakfast, made up of church members and other Christians in the community. Not a prayer breakfast either. Most of the time, it consists of football, basketball, and television show conversations, politics and religion are no-nos most of the time due to conflicting opinions on both. Since I am the oddball loner on all five subjects, I normally don’t participate. I just enjoy the company of others one day a week to keep from being a recluse. The remaining six days a week are spent with my wife, a fellow Libertarian. Six out of seven, ain’t bad.

[Good, good. You had me worried. You are still more social than I am.—IM]

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:18:38 +0000

At Friday’s breakfast, our resident Liberal made mention of the latest “Bigot’s e-mail over the cost of illegal immigration” naturally lumping it in with legal immigration of the past- Irish, German, Polish. When, I ignored the racist comment by admitting that we Irish have our faults and we did have some negative influence on the country too; but, that the immigration problem is manifold. Like under our welfare system, many American workers can make better than minimum wage by not working, therefore creating a job for an illegal or that the US Hispanics are becoming aware that the illegal immigrants are displacing them in the workforce and beginning to speak up, he decided to move to a new subject. Since Liberal minds, like Conservatives, are set in concrete, I’m aware that no opinions were changed; but, we were able to move to better subjects over breakfast.

[You share your home with a left-liberal? Must be a close relative, or else eviction would have been an option.—IM]

By: Dan Jeffreys

Dan Jeffreys — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:50:38 +0000

When hard times hit and it’s time to start laying people off, who are the folks a business is going to cut? The guy/gal who works their butts off and show up every day or the ones you can’t count on to show up and when they do they spend every moment they can on their facebook? As a result, a large part of the nearly 10% unemployed that we now have are the dregs of the workforce. Yes I realize I’m speaking in generalities here and there are good people who out there who have lost their jobs by no fault of their own but my practical experience at my job bear my theory out. Over the past year or so we’ve had times when we were looking to hire and you just can’t imagine the “fresh out of the pen”, “stoned looking”, obviously lazy folks we’ve had inquire about the openings. On a related note, the local news did a story the other night about this woman who has been unemployed for over 3 years. She was an administrative assistant and was telling the reporter “a very good one.” I’m thinking, obviously not if they cut you loose and no one else will hire you after 3 YEARS.

Dan

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:11:18 +0000

As an engineer in the computer industry for 30 years now, I also have reservations about the American work force. Even in this tight job market, my team has had a hellish time finding anyone competent to fill an open position. Lots of users of the technology, damn few able to create it.