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This is what ‘Saudi America’ looks like {McDonalds is offering a $300 signing bonus}
MSNBC ^ | 12/08/2012 | Chris Hayes

Posted on 12/10/2012 8:37:58 AM PST by thackney

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To: Engedi
Congress should order those that are on welfare and able to work to move to North Dakota or lose their benefits. Put them on trains and send them out there.

We don't want that riff raff; non/won't work bums. Lutheran Charities are doing enough damage by importing a bunch of savage Somolians who won't/don't work.

21 posted on 12/10/2012 11:28:10 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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Employment in oil and gas extraction has surged to the highest level since 1992, (though we should note they still provide a tiny, tiny sliver of the country’s jobs, just under 200,000).

What the writer missed in that note is that the jobs invariably pay more than the median household income (one job), and often multiples of it. That means disposable income on the part of the employees, which is spent, creating jobs in other sectors. The rising tide lifts all boats.

Small wonder Dickinson is having trouble finding McDonald's employees...in Williston (about 120 miles north of Dickinson) I heard the signing bonus was $500, payable after 6 months employment.

Spin-off jobs and business opportunities are by no means limited to the region, though, all sorts of goods from elsewhere come in, creating jobs and supporting businesses in other states as well.

22 posted on 12/10/2012 11:38:39 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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The Keystome Pipeline would also produce good jobs.


23 posted on 12/10/2012 11:45:27 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Engedi
Congress should order those that are on welfare and able to work to move to North Dakota or lose their benefits. Put them on trains and send them out there.

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

People have managed to come here seeking work from all 50 states and Puerto Rico, some with little more than the clothes on their back (and in their pack), find work, and make a go of it.

If you have to have Congress order them here, we don't want them, and we don't need them.

Give us instead your bright, productive, and hard-working. There's enough of a housing shortage without having to put up no-loads, and plenty of trash in their neighborhoods and other things to keep the welfare folks busy where they live now.

24 posted on 12/10/2012 11:55:46 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Lion Den Dan
Lutheran Charities are doing enough damage by importing a bunch of savage Somolians who won't/don't work.

I thought most of them went to the Twin Cities. We getting them here, too?

25 posted on 12/10/2012 12:00:28 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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Most have gone to the Twin Cities but Fargo seems to have a contingent and LC are moving on low income housing for Belfield and Beach. They are not saying who is to live in it.


26 posted on 12/11/2012 3:08:53 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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