Mark Steyn tells it like it is....Demographics

[badcompany]

Originally Posted by NJ Stinks

A short while ago, in the summer before my freshman year in high school , I had a job loading baskets of blueberries onto trailers. It was hard and seasonal work and most weeks the crew of about 20 teenagers worked about 65 to 75 hours a week. We were making $1.25 an hour - the minimum wage. Anyway, in mid-August we got a real shock when we got our paychecks. There was a separate check enclosed for all the overtime we worked but were not paid time and a half for. (In other words, we were paid overtime for every hour over 40 hours we worked each week since we started in June.) Everybody was shocked and amazed at our good fortune! Nobody could believe the company decided to pay us time and a half going back to when we started in June. Turns out they didn't want to - they had to because it was the law. But we didn't know that.

Shortly thereafter, we found out one of the guys in the crew had a father who did know the law. The father told management that if they didn't pay everyone of us the overtime due us, the father was going to inform the State of NJ about their disregard for the law.

That company was still in business 20 years after I worked there. Anyway, this is a classic example of workers being protected from an unscrupulous employer because of the mandatory overtime law.

Congratulations, the next summer, instead of hiring about 20 teenagers, he hired about 15. And, if the Employer was so unscrupulous, how did he manage to stay in business for another 20 years?

What's so sad and depressing about people like you is that you actually think you're helping when all you're doing is creating barriers to entering the workforce for people who need it the most.

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http://www.wgbh.org/articles/African...g-Problem-5678

Teens between the ages of 16 and 19 are in a jobs depression. Add race to the mix, and it’s nothing short of an epidemic. And it has long-term ramifications: Lack of work experience in the teen years reduces future employability and earnings.

Upstairs in the food court, Ashley Registre of Randolph sat at a table with her friend Amber. Registre was filling out a job application for a retail clothing store in the mall. It's not her first job application. She listed them off: "Hollister, Abercrombie, Aéropostale, PS Aéropostale, Baby Gap, Children’s Place. Dunkin' Donuts, McDonalds, Stop & Shop … there’s more."
The scope of the problem

Registre is one of many black teenagers looking for work. While the national teen unemployment rate overall is at 24 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobless rate for black teens is at 42 percent. Economist Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, said even that figure may be coming up short.

[Tom]

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;

Now why in the world would we WANT anyone who would not take this oath?

Remember, WE decide who comes here to live, not THEM.
It is reasonable to only allow those who will bring something of value to us and not just open the doors to anyone.

Millions have done this over the years, are proud that they did, and we are proud to welcome them. Now the libs want to spit in the faces of every LEGAL immigrant.

[Moniker]

Originally Posted by Tom

Now why in the world would we WANT anyone who would not take this oath?

Remember, WE decide who comes here to live, not THEM.
It is reasonable to only allow those who will bring something of value to us and not just open the doors to anyone.

Millions have done this over the years, are proud that they did, and we are proud to welcome them. Now the libs want to spit in the faces of every LEGAL immigrant.

I agree completely. There's no reason someone should be in this country if they can't express loyalty to it. Why would we "feed" someone, if we can't be sure they won't bite our hand?

[NJ Stinks]

Originally Posted by badcompany

Congratulations, the next summer, instead of hiring about 20 teenagers, he hired about 15. And, if the Employer was so unscrupulous, how did he manage to stay in business for another 20 years?

What's so sad and depressing about people like you is that you actually think you're helping when all you're doing is creating barriers to entering the workforce for people who need it the most.

Are you sure you aren't the Sheriff of Nottingham or Ebeneezer Scrooge? I swear you are the first guy I know who heard this story and actually felt like my employer was the one getting screwed.

They stayed in business for another 20 years because they were obviously making money.

[Robert Fischer]

LMAO please tell me you are trolling for/with vitriol

Originally Posted by badcompany

Congratulations, the next summer, instead of hiring about 20 teenagers, he hired about 15. And, if the Employer was so unscrupulous, how did he manage to stay in business for another 20 years?

What's so sad and depressing about people like you is that you actually think you're helping when all you're doing is creating barriers to entering the workforce for people who need it the most.

**********


http://www.wgbh.org/articles/African...g-Problem-5678

Teens between the ages of 16 and 19 are in a jobs depression. Add race to the mix, and it’s nothing short of an epidemic. And it has long-term ramifications: Lack of work experience in the teen years reduces future employability and earnings.

Upstairs in the food court, Ashley Registre of Randolph sat at a table with her friend Amber. Registre was filling out a job application for a retail clothing store in the mall. It's not her first job application. She listed them off: "Hollister, Abercrombie, Aéropostale, PS Aéropostale, Baby Gap, Children’s Place. Dunkin' Donuts, McDonalds, Stop & Shop … there’s more."
The scope of the problem

Registre is one of many black teenagers looking for work. While the national teen unemployment rate overall is at 24 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobless rate for black teens is at 42 percent. Economist Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, said even that figure may be coming up short.

[badcompany]

Originally Posted by NJ Stinks

Are you sure you aren't the Sheriff of Nottingham or Ebeneezer Scrooge? I swear you are the first guy I know who heard this story and actually felt like my employer was the one getting screwed.

They stayed in business for another 20 years because they were obviously making money.

No, you said I said the employer got screwed because a) You're from Jersey b) You're a horseplayer c) You're a liberal d) You hate business.

That's a Boob Superfecta.

Who actually gets screwed by wage price controls is the percentage of Black teenagers who would otherwise be gaining valuable experience in the workplace, you know those underpriviledged yutes, you and your liberal ilk supposedly care so much about.

How about you and your fellow shrivelled dicked old cohort Fischer debate me on economic theory and not resort to typical infantile empty emotional rhetoric?

Answer: You can't.

[Robert Goren]

I just want to say a few things about my experience with Mexicans under my employ. I had 20 more or less on a cleaning crew over then years. Everyone of them had two things in common. They all (and I do meam all) drank to excess, often on the job. They all said they were head to California or Texas. When we hired whites for the cleaning, they generally lasted to the first big now. Snow means a lot of hard labor in the parking business. I believe that they now have mostly Vietnamese on the cleaning crew where I use to work. The Tech is Vietnamese and I think he helped get them hired. All I know is the lots appear to be a lot cleaner now than when I worked there. Just my experience for what it is worth.