Figure it out

Employment is the real hot button issue of our time. To work or not to work is the question.

With every aspect of our life costing more, work is crucial but it seems everyone wants a raise. The traditional way to get ahead was to learn skills and be promoted. These days unskilled workers just want more money, period.

This is where the government steps in. Typically, the democrats want to give free money or raise the minimum wage to some astronomical unsustainable level. The guy washing dishes in a restaurant wants the same wage as college educated career professionals.

Getting people off welfare and unemployment should be a goal of government. It can’t possible be politically incorrect to tell a homeless or unemployed person get up and go get a job.

There’s a silly joke about the son of a company president who finally went to work. He started as Vice President and worked his way up. Some of the pay demands for unskilled labor is just as absurd.

“Now hiring” signs are common. For anyone wanting to work, there are lots of jobs. Every food place is hiring. The airlines need 1000’s of all types of workers. Every construction company is struggling to find workers, Amazon is hiring. Engineers are in short supply. Truck drivers can find good jobs. And on and on.

Some employers are offering signing bonuses to new workers. Yet the government continues pay the non-workers. People with good jobs with benefits aren’t there because of racism or privilege, they are there because they worked for it.

I worked 45 years to be able to retire comfortably. My kids all work and have plans for their retirement. This is the way Americans live. The millennials and unemployed need to figure this out.

Jim Gardner

Palmdale