Monday is my wife’s birthday. We have been married 49 years and eight months. You might think from that period of time I would have no problem deciding what present to buy.
I explained
the problem. My wife suggested a certain store in a nearby shopping center. I
had never been there. My wife said, “We can look and you can pick out
something.” That sounded good. A pre-approved birthday present.
After buying
the gift yesterday, my wife suggested we get a couple of supper sandwiches from
Subway. She said, “I know it’s only three o’clock, but the sandwiches will keep
until supper.” I agreed.
My wife got
the sandwiches while I waited in the car. When she came back, she mentioned, “There’s
a sign on the door apologizing for inconvenience, saying they will close at
four today. The manager said they can’t hire enough people to cover the shift
that starts at four.” She said the manager has 15 restaurants, and every one
has the same problem – No job applicants.
We talked
about reported problems of people not wanting to work. My wife said, “I don’t understand
it. When we were of an age, if we wanted something, we had to work for it.” I
agreed. You either worked for what you wanted, or you did without.
At a stop
sign in the shopping center, a young woman stood with a sign. She was in her
mid-20s, attractive. The sign was a 12-inch by 8-inch white posterboard with
blue lettering, “DONATIONS” prominent in the center, other words in smaller
letters I could not make out.
My wife
stopped at the stop sign. I lowered the
passenger window and said, “Subway is hiring.”
The young
woman seemed confused. “Pardon?” she said.
I repeated
what I had said. My wife said, “The manager said he needs workers. He needs to
hire people.”
The young
woman said, “I have no papers.”
My wife
raised the window and said as we drove away, “Then you shouldn’t have come
across.”
If I knew a
backer of open borders I would make contact and tell him or her of the young
woman and perhaps he or she would go to the shopping center and give DONATIONS.
Or hire the young woman to make sandwiches.
A local shop has a fairly large, state of the art auto paint shop on one side of his business. It has been closed for a year and will remain closed until he can get a paint crew. He starts at $18/hr while training. But no takers.
ReplyDeleteSo half of the floor space of his business with maybe a couple hundred thousands of dollars in equipment is shuttered. He even cannot find guys willing to be trained.
Meanwhile, two other paint shops are busier than they want to be (a helluva problem for small business). But both say a simple paint job will take at least one to two months because they operate with overworked skeleton crews. They also accept only insurance work. So the guy with a vehicle cannot get it painted unless insurance pays.
Each of these three businesses have large Help Wanted signs that have been out front for two yrs now. Nearly every business of every type advertises continually for non-existing employees.
There's one, maybe 2, generations of people out there now that are mostly useless, unemployable, incapable of thinking for themselves. 2 legged animals that can sometimes speak the language and little else. When there is no one left but them this planet will be uninhabitable.
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