Pick Ups At Home Depot - Las Vegas Sun

The New Faces Of Day Labor: 
"It sounds like a George Lopez joke:
Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.”
Except it’s true.
In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work. Experts say the slow-starting but seemingly inexorable trend is occurring nationwide."

It saddens me to read an article like this for two reasons. The first and most obvious is the sympathy I have for the human suffering Americans are enduring during these hard economic times. The second is more political, and stirs the emotions of deep rooted anger at the current thinking of the DC elite. I feel anger at our politicians, our businesses, and immigration activists who constantly tell us that Americans don't want just any type of job. They don't want the non-college level jobs that have been exported to other countries in the name of Globalism. They don't want jobs that they feel are beneath them like laborer jobs, plumbers, electricians, heavy equipment operators. You know the kind of jobs our fathers did to put food on the table for us, so that we could live the American dream. According to our "fearless leaders" those jobs are better left to illegal migrant workers, or to off shore call centers and foreign manufacturers. My God, what red blooded American would want a manufacturing job in this day and age?

As I said in a post I wrote a few days ago - "these days I am starting to pay close attention to what the Left has to say. Their intent for what they say may be different than mine, but their observations ring true."

I give you this link to a Slate Magazine article entitled  What Are The Jobs Americans Won't Do? . Read it and you decide if the Left doesn't have a point. Besides I'm too pissed off at this whole fiasco, and Mr. Gross has a better flair for words than I, but I'm getting there.