Posted on 07/03/2009 8:09:13 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Hope & Change. Young people love him.
Well, given my screen name...
Most of the teens who bothered to vote cast theirs for Obama. But then, they were largely following in the footsteps of their equally deluded elders and professors.
I notice that the first two people who comment on this article at Forbes both mention that illegal aliens are grabbing many jobs that would otherwise go to teens.
And they correctly blame Forbes for supporting that.
Teens have normally climbed the ladder from the bottom up. But those jobs are now taken largely by illegals.
I just scored a second job at a local Gelato shop - if I can get 2 jobs, these people can surely scare up one.
Teen jobs around here have been tough for a while. The car washes and most grocery store checkers and fast food counter people are all illegals (maybe that’s too harsh- but few are English-speakers).
Here in California, even during boom times teenagers are competing with illegal aliens, and retirees for entry level jobs. Those who can’t make it on their Social Security, will take a part time job at a fast food place to make ends meet.
Mayhap because the jobs normally taken by teens are now taken by older adults that have the ability to use basic math, have strong verbal skills and … yes, are reliable.
Don’t worry, teens. The coming increase in the minimum wage is going to boost entry-level hiring! All will be well.
“Here in California, even during boom times teenagers are competing with illegal aliens, and retirees for entry level jobs. Those who can’t make it on their Social Security, will take a part time job at a fast food place to make ends meet.”
When the citizens of a state vote for Dimocratz, they get Dimocratz policies. If you don’t like the policies, you know what you have to do.
That doesn’t explain Bush and McCain’s love affair with illegals.
My kids both took training as lifeguards. They had multiple job offers. Daughter is working as much as she wants, up to 70 hours a week; son has a more normal schedule.
Oh, and it's Bush's fault YAY.
Send the illegals home. Problem solved.
Minimum wage hikes wipe out entry level jobs.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.
But whatever it takes it is more than congress can muster...
Problem not solved.
The primary cause for teen unemplolyment is minimum wage.
“That doesn’t explain Bush and McCain’s love affair with illegals.”
Bush didn’t have a love affair with illegals, he was willing to have the fence built, but didn’t necessarily support it - a fence-straddling stance. McCain left a vital part of his brain in the facility on Tho Nhuom street.
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