>It's even worse .... your (beautiful American) National Parks can only thrive
>because of the piles of foreign "students" with special "educational visas" to
>work inside park boundaries ... most of them cleaning toilets in park
>hotels/motels, works as room-maids, delivery-truck drivers, selling ice-cream,
>doing dishes, picking up garbage, you name it ... for the simple reason that
>American youngsters do not want to work for those wages anymore.

If the folks we are discussing were here legally like the ones you describe
above, I would not have a problem with them.  I do have a problem with
paying the Americans who won't take the jobs not to work, though.

The area I live in there are some deadbeats but there are a lot of natives
willing to do the work for whatever wage if they can get it.  They are
proud enough not to want full-time hand-outs.

OTOH, there are a lot of young Americans out there that have been told that
a college education = a job.  So, they go and find something "fun" to major
in that has no practical application.  Then, when they get out and cannot
get a high-paying job in "basketweaving," they won't take one that is
"beneath them."  So, they complain about how the government owes them
instead.

Back about 20 years ago I knew a kid near my age who pretty much did that,
except he actually had a decent degree but wasn't really too motivated to
get out and get a job (living with the parents still helps, I guess).  He
spent all his time complaining about Mexicans taking his job.  I told him
that around here, they all worked shoveling manure on horse farms and not
in entry-level IT jobs.  He thought that the Mexican taking the
manure-shoveling job somehow freed up an American to take his.

He never put it together that, if it was a job he wasn't willing to take,
neither were any other Americans qualified to work in the field he had got
a degree in.

Mike

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