Unfortunately, as Judge Smails points out in CaddyShack, "the world needs ditch diggers too."
Many people do not have the capability to rise above ditch digger status.
If the world needs ditch diggers and many of those people are necessarily limited to that position b/c of limited ability, why should they be relegated to second class status with no benefits or such?
It is in the best interests of the US to have a healthy (insured) and reasonably compensated workforce. The alternative, economic strife, affects crime and death rates for the underclass.
Limited ability may be the result of lower IQ or laziness.
Our country has grants and financial aid for those wishing to recieve an education. It's one thing that we should fund more, as opposed to nonsense like welfare. There is an opportunity to pull yourself out of the gutter in this country.
The US workforce is well compensated... They get what they're worth. And I disagree about the affect on the underclass.
I diasgree with you about the affect on the underclass.. Many immigrants work themselves up and out of the gutter, working jobs that have no benefits what so ever. You don't hear complaints from a cabby who's driving 50-60 hours a week for a lousy $1,000 a week. But it's always the fucking labor union workers who are complaining despite having pensions, sick days and what not.
The only underclass demographic it seems to affect are black and hispanics. They have the highest crime rates and most social problems. Their fellow underclassmen, such as asian immigrants don't seem to be having the same problems, despite facing more adversity. Thus we can determine it's a cultural problem within their groups, and not results of economic inequity.
