Posted by
Boston Biz on Monday, May 21, 2007 3:40:30 PM
To view a complete blog, video blog, and YouTube Channel of this author, please visit http://solumveritas.blogspot.comSometimes, Americans have a problem seeing the forest through the trees. The video above gives us an insight into the absolutely horrible conditions that Americans are forced to live under...as the Liberal left sees it.
Until about a year ago, I worked a manual labor job that primarily employed minorities due to its relatively close relation to the inner city. I was about a month away from getting married, and I had lost my job. We were planning on closing on a house soon and time was getting tight. The phone book lay open as I let my fingers do the walking. Company after company explained their hiring situations to me. I found one company, drove immediately to it, handed the boss my resume (for good measure), and he gave me the requirements to get the job. I had to go pass a state test and return with credentials. At this point, I would be hired as an apprentice and have 3 months to train for the job. Then I'd have to pass one more company and one more state test. I left, I did it, and I came back with the requirements. I was hired on the spot. My apprenticeship started at $14.15 per hour, which jumped to $16.30 per hour when I passed the apprenticeship, and it landed on $17.21 per hour shortly after. This was a job that took me one week to find and one month to meet the requirements for...with no prior experience or credentials. No, a minimum wage job at McDonald's was not the "ONLY" job us unemployed Americans could find. Sure, the lazy ones who aren't willing to wear out some shoes, make some phone calls, print resumes, and drive distances for a job may find that to be true. I've known 4 family households where an overqualified husband could only find McDonald's...and he made it work.
What bothered me was that while I was excited over the fact that a novice like myself had acquired a $17.21 per hour job with benefits in a month's time the senior guys - making $24.00, with IRA plans, company health care, company matched stock contributions, guaranteed 60 hours a week - would stand around the office...attacking our failed economy due to the President's deplorable actions in the White House. One had a 2007 Charger he just bought...after he got this job. One bought a new conversion van. One bought a 2007 Mustang. One joked the night before that he lost $10,000 in his IRA last week, but it didn't matter because he had seen it jump $30,000 due to his stock purchases. Why, in America, is the price of gas the only criteria in the minds of our citizens required to have the economy considered healthy?
A wise man once said, "The poor will always be with us." He had enough sense to know that whatever you do there will always be present in society "the down and out". How can those people enjoying new cars, paying jobs, benefits, home ownership, eating out, new clothes, razor cell phones with bluetooth, Sirius and XM radio in their vehicles, and Comcast's bundle package at home dare look to the President and complain?
What is opinion without facts? In part 2 we will look into the facts.
Vote democrat in 2008. Four more years of home ownership and debt-free living is going to kill me.
Signed,
Boston Biz