Young people feel themselves to be too clever to be forced to debase themselves with learning a skilled trade involving any sort of manual labor. After all, isn't that why we tacitly approve of illegal immigration - it provides business owners with cheap labor for 'menial' - which is code for physical - labor.
Hmmmmm...let's see, exploiting immigrants for substandard wages...I've heard something like that before...yup, that's it, from my grandparents and great-grandfather. Little changes, it seems.
I really hope Obama will require that young people be given the choice of either military service or public service for perhaps a 2 year period. It would do them, the less fortunate and the country as a whole a world of good, maybe even teach them some pride and self respect. And the country will respect them back, rather than resent their lack of ambition and sheer sloth.
And what if we were to concurrently give all the unemployed money market managers, bankers and others of that ilk the opportunity to find honest, and I repeat,
honest work in a WPA type program to help repair our infrastructure that was allowed to fall into ruin. Maybe a day's worth of
real labor would restore a little humility to the avaricious little pricks.
The age of money for nothing may be drawing to a close for good in the very near future. Starvation can be a fairly effective motivational tool - like their forebears it may soon be a matter of survival for them to actually
work for a living. Too goddammed bad if they don't like it - neither, I imagine, did our immigrant ancestors.
Hope they're clever enough to figure out how to grip a shovel, swing a hammer or mix concrete by hand. If I could learn those skills along the way over the last 45 years I've worked, I'm sure they can too.
Hey, like the comedians say, don't get me started...
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