I have such a hard time with all of this. We have jobs that need workers. We have young men who are capable of earning a good wage, having a family, buy a house and become good fathers if they only had a skill. Instead of teaching them, people want to import workers who don’t speak the language and don’t share our values.
I think in each of the schools that teach a skill should also teach civics.
Uh, not everyone has a middle class work ethic. Years ago the WSJ ran an editorial that showed if a single mom in NYC had 3 kids and signed up for every welfare program possible, it would take a job with an income of $78,000 a year to provide the same benefits. That’s $39/hour. For a lot of people, that’s like climbing Mt. Everest - impossible.