If a 16 year old searches for work and doesn’t find any, he’s counted. I say he shouldn’t be, since he should be firmly implanted behind a desk in school. Not being able to get a job at McDonalds to go buy CDs shouldn’t affect the unemployment rate because it makes the statistics biased.
Besides, it’s not like there aren’t jobs available. The real solution is to deport all the illegals, put claymores along the border, and offer those jobs to the unemployed. If there’s jobs out there, and you chose not to accept one, then it shouldn’t be the fault of the government for you not being employed. Besides, we’ve become a welfare state anyway. It’s more profitable in a lot of cases to stay living off of government handouts than to actually motivate yourself to get work. Welfare reform is also needed to cure the unemployment problem.
I wouldnt neccesarily be so quick to blame illegal aliens. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs every year due to out sourcing. These skilled, tenured, sometimes high payed people should be expected to give up their way of life to go work as a housekeeper in some hotel, or pick crops? And considering the government actually rewards some of these companies for doing this; they should be responsible. It is the government and big business who are forcing good, working class people into poverty and onto welfare; yet they seem fine to let it happen.
Unemployment in this country can not be laid squarley on the shoulders of illegal aliens, considering that the only jobs they “steal” are the ones that only a 16 yr. old who wants to buy cd’s could realistically be expected to take.
As far as not counting 16 year olds into the unemployment rate- keep in mind that many kids go looking for work to help the family pay the bills and buy groceries, not simply for material reasons.
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