Jonathan David Morris: Immigration and the Myth of Unwanted Jobs
So what are we talking about when we talk about “jobs that Americans aren’t willing to do?” Landscaping. Housekeeping. Things of that sort. Why aren’t Americans willing to do them? Because they’ve been taught to sit back, relax, and collect unemployment rather than take inglorious jobs.
Employers don’t deserve to be punished for this. They ought to be free from social engineering tactics like quotas and affirmative action, and they ought to be free to hire anyone willing to do the job — and that goes for people willing to answer customer service calls over in India, as well as people willing to transplant their families to come to America.
As always, however, the politicians won’t have it. Dick Gephardt, for one, says he’d work towards an international minimum wage if elected president. This would represent a greater victory in the worldwide workers’ revolution than any of the Soviet Union’s Cold War accomplishments.
Between this proposal and our [sic] efforts to shut down sweatshops, it seems America’s bent on inducing unemployment all over the globe.