{"id":2959,"date":"2013-04-05T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:47:30","slug":"the-recovery-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/04\/05\/the-recovery-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recovery Continues!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the policies enacted by our dear leaders in D.C., the economy continues its miraculous resurgence.\u00a0 Unemployment continues to drop, coming in at 7.6 percent<\/a> for March.\u00a0 The number of long-termed unemployed, those who have gone at least 27 weeks without working, was \u201clittle changed\u201d (hooray!), and at 4.6 million they comprise only<\/em> 40 percent of those unemployed.\u00a0 There were 88,000 new jobs created, while 496,000 people dropped out of the workforce, bringing the labor participation rate to its lowest point since 1979.\u00a0 Those of us old enough can recall soaring energy prices and stagflation with genuine fondness.\u00a0 Relations with Iran certainly have never been better.\u00a0 It seems the golden days have returned!<\/p>\n

I hope young people today appreciate how good they have it, particularly those who are college graduates.\u00a0 With the economy humming along, there is no shortage of great jobs available to those who are willing to do a little work to pay off the enormous debt they\u2019ve incurred from student loans.\u00a0 Just yesterday it was reported that a McDonald\u2019s<\/a> in Massachusetts was seeking a cashier with a bachelor\u2019s degree and two years of experience.\u00a0 If one were looking for a mark of genuine prosperity, this is truly it.<\/p>\n

With half of recent college grads unemployed or underemployed, I hope at least one of those lazy bums gets off the couch and gets to work.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t have much hope that American workers will show any initiative (Don\u2019t get me started on those worthless teenagers, or Americans without college degrees, who only want to sit around and collect welfare).\u00a0 We all know, because the U.S. Chamber, the AFL\/CIO, and the Gang of Eight tell us so, that there is a chronic shortage of labor in this country because there are two types of jobs in this country: those Americans won\u2019t do and those they can\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, McDonald\u2019s doesn\u2019t have to worry.\u00a0 The manager can just hire a J-1<\/a> worker.\u00a0 That seems to have worked out well in the past. Or even better, the position could be classified as \u201cdata entry\u201d and an H-1B<\/a> worker brought in to do the job.\u00a0 We all know that these positions afford workers a well-paid career in the fast-food industry, which is why it is so great that these types of jobs have accounted for nearly 60 percent<\/a> of recent job growth. Just the other day, fast-food workers spontaneously gathered outside a Mickey D\u2019s in Manhattan to serenade<\/a> their employer.<\/p>\n

I keep hearing politicians say the \u201cimmigration system\u201d is broken.\u00a0 With all the great news on the economic front, it seems to me the system is going gangbusters.\u00a0 The only thing that would make it better would be to grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens<\/span> people residing in the country without permission<\/a>.\u00a0 That would free Americans from having to do the jobs they aren\u2019t doing anyway so that they could go to college and get a job as a cashier at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Call the members of the Gang of Eight today!\u00a0 Tell them how much you appreciate all that they are doing for American workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the policies enacted by our dear leaders in D.C., the economy continues its miraculous resurgence.\u00a0 Unemployment continues to drop, coming in at 7.6 percent for March.\u00a0 The number of long-termed unemployed, those who have gone at least 27 weeks without working, was \u201clittle changed\u201d (hooray!), and at 4.6 million they comprise only 40<\/p>\n

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