DailyKos.com says, “American’s won’t work 12 hour days , $5 an hour for seven days a week.”
However, in 1973 after graduating from college on the GI Bill (working nights and weekends), my first job was 12 or more hours a day sometimes six and seven days a week on a salary without overtime.
Change.org says, “Despite high unemployment, Americans won’t work as farmhands. Have you ever read John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, which is about two Caucasian drifters working as farmhands moving from farm to farm to survive? at 112 pages, it is a small book and I recommend it.
I know, I taught Of Mice and Men to my high school age students for more than a decade.
The Center for Immigration Statistics tells us what the are that jobs “educated” Americans won’t work at. CIS says, “Of the 465 civilian occupations, only four are majority immigrant. These four occupations account for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans comprise 47 percent of workers in these occupations.
“These high-immigrant occupations are primarily, but not exclusively, lower-wage jobs that require relatively little formal education.
“In high-immigrant occupations, 57 percent of natives have no more than a high school education. In occupations that are less than 20 percent immigrant, 35 percent of natives have no more than a high school education. And in occupations that are less than 10 percent immigrant, only 26 percent of natives have no more than a high school education.”
With no choice, American born citizens will work jobs most educated Americans refuse to do.
In fact, in October 2011, the New York Times reported about a Colorado farmer that decided to hire locally unemployed Americans instead of immigrant labor. It took the farmer six hours to learn he had made a mistake. At lunchtime, the first wave of local workers quit and never came back. Some of the workers said the work was too hard.
Since most Asian-Americans value education and work harder than most to earn one, they tend to stay in school longer. In fact, Asian-Americans had the lowest unemployment rate of all ethnicities. In 2010, 12.5% of Hispanic or Latino, 10% of African-Americans , 8.7% of Whites but only 7.5% of Asian-Americans were unemployed.
Continued on November 19, 2011 in America’s Lost Work Ethic and the Future Fate of the United States – Part 4 or return to Part 2
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