After all the Damage the Storms have cost in money,jobs and homes what are the Jobs that Americans won't do.
350451
You're talking about "southerners" and quite frankly they are the laziest lot of people alive. They don't want to work period. They won't cook, clean, do paper work, restaurant work, office work, etc. They don't do anything. Ever. I lived in the south. I have NO sympathy for them.
753472
The economy is getting ready to crash.  Congress has enacted several laws in the last couple years that are having a direct effect on our future economy.\n\nIt is now legal to charge nearly 40% interest on credit cards (that used to be called USARY, but now, it's called first step to bankruptcy) Our interest rates have gone through the roof, the fees financial institutions are allowed to charge are breaking us, with the rise in prices for gas, heating & insurance, and the falling home values, there are going to be many, many people out of jobs in the next year.\n\nAnd meanwhile, what are elected officials worrying about?  Crap, gay rights, abortions, their own paychecks, retirements and health care.  Sure as hell not us.\n\nAnd I would hazard a guess that there are very few people who own their homes outright.  In fact, many people owe more for their homes than they can sell them for.\n\nWe are in for a rude awakening my friend.  \n\nWhile we continue to sue and tax American companies out of business, we sit back and wonder where are all the jobs going.  And don't tell me "service industry" that line only works if there are people with money to buy the services.  Here in Metro Detroit and Michigan, even McDonalds is starting to lay off.\n\nAs my company does business with other companies all over the country I can tell you this, we are headed for a serious recession.  Many small industrial companies are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.  70% of the jobs in this country are directly related to small business.  While our local and state governments give all the tax breaks to the large corporations for the benefit of the unions and their foreign suppliers they now buy from,  the rest of us are drowning and losing our incomes.  Yet our cost of living has shot through the roof.\n\nBelieve me, or not, it's coming and it's going to be as ugly as it was in the early 80's.  History is repeating itself and no one seems to notice.\n\nGood luck to us.
499086
There is no assurance that New Orleans will be hit by another hurricane, just as there is no assurance they won't be.  While I'm not a psychic, from previous years and studies of hurricanes, it's very unlikely that another hurricane will hit them this year and even more unlikely that a large hurricane will hit.\n\nMany younger adults, mostly people in their twenties, are taking advantage of the large amount of homes available for sale.  While the homes need much repair, a recent college graduate who was looking at a small house in another large city can afford to buy a big house in New Orleans and then renovate it for the same price.  While home insurance is expensive in the city, the price of the home, repair, and insurance still doesn't meet what you'd pay somewhere like California.\n\nThere's also the fact that many people don't have a choice to live somewhere else.  While many people have moved out of the city, most of the people that were displaced by the storm are extremely poor.  They didn't own their homes, many didn't have insurance, and Fema has drastically cut the amount of aid they are giving to people.  However, many of the cities they have been living with are also cutting off aid and so they are forced to return to their broken homes, the only thing they own, and attempt to rebuild (they certainly can't sell their homes in the state in which they are in). \n\nFinally, New Orleans is still a major shipping and oil port and people are needed to work the jobs to get things on and off ships.  My mother's oil company has actually offered large amounts of money and incentives to get people from her KY office to move down there and work.  Hope this helps explain things.
156286
Corporate America will do anything to make or save a buck.  They pay off the lawmakers to make it easy for them to screw the rest of us.  Eventually we, as a people, will wake up and throw the bastards out and get back to working for ourselves rather than for Bush's friends.
371777
The only job that I would say Americans don't do rather wouldn't do is the operate one of those Ice Cream trucks that drive around in some neighbors in the summertime. But, then Mexicans won't do that either. \nThose jobs I don't believe would be much of an impact on American workers. \nSome other answers were rather interesting.\nI would say Americana's won't do etc etc what ever that job is. \nI think Republican racist is probably a volunteer job,so nobody is lining up for that one. \nA friends in Washington DC said there was a long waiting list for hiring Raving lunatic that is a demand job. That is all I could think of.
120250
No. The economy in the US is changing--other jobs are being created here.
1059469
no we dont. We need americans that will do low paying jobs and busineses that will employ AMERICANS.
622875
it's easy to say "let them have the jobs we don't want to do" Well yea, nobody WANTS to do some of this work, but some of us HAVE to. They are making it more difficult for regular blue collar workers to make a living. My husband has been in construction all his life, used to provide really well for us but now most places won't even hire legal citizens anymore and if they do it doesn't pay anything at all, my husband has over 15 yrs experience and is lucky to find a job paying more than 9 dollars an hour. Anyone who says it is okay is obviously not being affected by it.
1082212
I think the issue is more then a depression. The United States is losing confidence throughout the world. Foreign and American investors are turning to Europe as the solidified economy. A depression indicates a periodic significant drop in the economy. I think its going to be much worse. It will be permanent. New jobs consist of unskilled and underpaid positions. When 10,000 Americans are applying for jobs that pay 8 dollars an hour, just so they can work, and basic fuel products, gasoline, natural gas, heating oil etc are skyrocketing, how are people going to afford this at 8 dollars an hour? We are watching the decline of the American dream and hence its empire. This is sadly written by someone who loves America.
634634
Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won't do. \nWhat jobs won't Americans do? \nAmericans still \n--clean their own houses, \n--do their own landscaping, \n--clean hotel rooms, \n--work in restaurants and fast food places, \n--paint houses, \n--DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, \n--work in airports, etc. - I Can Go ON And On\njust like we have the past 200 years before "our" government allowed these people to invade our country. \nThere are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so ILLEGAL Aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers By FALSELY DEPRESSING The Wage Rates\n\n5 Percent Of Our Workforce Are ILLEGAL Aliens\nThe Unemployment Rate In The U.S. RIGHT NOW is 4.7 Percent\nLets Do The Math\nDEPORT The ILLEGAL Aliens\nUnemployment Drops To ZERO \n\nWithout illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. \nThe definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" \nThe study concludes that 'since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products \n(which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), \nusing minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products \nby approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter ... \nhardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims. \n\nConsumers are NOT benefiting from lower labor costs. \nAgain, it's CEOs and business owners who benefit from taxpayer subsidies for their illegal alien workers. \nThe Big Three automakers say they moved so many jobs to Mexico because their labor costs are 80 percent less than in America. \nAnybody notice the price of new cars spiraling downward under NAFTA? I Havent\n\nIt is time we take back our country. This is a very real problem and we had better stand in unison against this threat to our national security.
676155
I'll continue life as usual. Clean my own home. Mow my own lawn. Cook my own meals. People who are not accustomed to doing for themselves the things that they are currently hiring illegals to do for them do not have one drop of my sympathy. Businesses want to leave? Let them. Agriculture can return to American families...where it belongs. Americans will have to do their own dirty work, and there's nothing wrong with that. Civilizations crumble when too many of their citizens do too little for themselves. Make yourself useful and productive or no one will need you.
609673
Who do you think did all those jobs before illegals invaded our country?  Maybe those jobs didn't exist, or maybe farmers let their produce rot?  Your argument is illogical and self serving.  The fact of the matter is that employers want these illegals here because they can take advantage of them, and the government who looks out for the interests of the business elite, supports them in this.  They try to play Americans for fools by sending troops to the border and suggesting a guest worker program, which is just a way to ensure a permanent source of cheap labor for these greedy employers.  Illegals will work for wages that no American will work for, and as a result they take jobs from Americans and drive wages down for everybody else.  It's obvious you don't know what you are talking about when you bring up something like doing construction work for $7.50 an hour.  Construction work, just so you know, was a good job that paid a lot more than $7.50 an hour and that employed many Americans, until illegals started swarming our country and doing doing construction for shit wages.  A lot of Americans lost good paying jobs, and contruction companies increased their profits by grotesque proportions.  So don't fool yourself by thinking that illegals are essential.  The only reason they are allowed to come and stay is because they increase the profits of the business elite.  But this can only go on for so long.  At some point, Americans will get so sick of being screwed that these businessmen and their politician buddies who are selling out their counrtry for profits, will have no choice but to stop hiring illegals altogether, and these illegals will have no choice but to go home where they belong.
627528
During the next 5 years, I hope to see a Democratic sweep in all state and Federal governments (at least we will get a different set of lies), I am afraid we will see rampant inflation, horrid interest rates, serious weather pattern changes including more and more serious hurricanes on the East Coast. I expect that during the next 10 years, our ocean levels to begin rising causing more and more flooding in the gulf and East Coast. We well could face a serious uprising of the population due to the Iraq ordeal...very much like we had with Viet Nam. I do not foresee good times ahead. I also think our problems with Mexico have just started. I hope I am wrong.
423635
because they do a lot of low paying jobs\nlike clean the horse or dog tracks\nand a lot of job Americans do not really want...maybe they would if they were available to us..ever think of that...\nmaybe they should go an a MONTH long strike\n\nI DARE THEM TO\n\nthey don't have it in them to go on a longer strike\n.
577571
The economy in this country is already horrible. It's going to keep getting worse. The politicians don't care because they will keep benefitting from the situation while more Americans plummit into poverty. There will be millions more homeless people and those who are wealthy will continue to say it's the poor's fault, spouting the usual lies.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits.\n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them.\n\nI am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years.
650901
we already have welfare, food stamps, government housing, and medical care. there shouldnt be any other special programs. new orleans has been taken down in the past by hurricanes, it will happen again. it is a stront city, it has rebuilt on its own in the past without the help of the government. i lived in texas where rita went through. i lost almost everything as far as possessions go. i'm not accepting handouts from the government. i moved, life continued on. when the weather dictates that you evacuate, you dont just sit there and then expect compensation for your own lack of listening. i say the government should completely back out of rebuilding new orleans and let it do what it needs to to rebuild itself. people with money will invest, it will come back bigger, better, and stronger.
629456
They will join the working poor when they start paying all the with holding.They won't be able to wire money back to their relatives.So much for the American Dream.