What Jobs Can Americans Possibly Do?

  

Our legislators in Washington have told us that the country needs tens of millions of foreign workers to do the jobs Americans won’t or can’t do. To this end, they have crafted legislation to bring in more workers on either a temporary or permanent basis and to give subsidies to American companies that out source their production to foreign soil.

Our representatives have assured their constituents that none of us wants the low-end jobs like farming, meat packing, construction, hotel and restaurant work, gardening, housekeeping, pet or child care. We have also been advised that we are too unproductive to do customer service work.  If an American customer has problems with airline reservations, medical bills, or the Internet, we are better served by people in Manilla and Bombay who have a nicer way with people and problems since their cultures are so unlike ours.

We have also been told that we are not bright enough or well educated enough to do high-tech jobs.  Engineers must be brought in from such technically and educationally advanced countries as India and China. Their technical schools are so good, that their students come to American colleges to help shore up our needy schools of higher learning. We’re glad to have them because they also provide us with greater diversity, something of which we can never have enough.  Since these foreign students are better than ours, they are also better equipped to teach our students even if they cannot be understood because of their language differences.  If these American students would just take the time to learn enough foreign languages, they would be more likely to understand these different tongues in class.

Even our T.V. hosts and reporters are now better because they are from abroad, usually England.  Look at Simon Cowell and Laura Logan, not to mention Liam, Nigel, Cat, Pier, Sharon, et al.

The only jobs that Americans seem to do better than our foreign friends is politics. Or maybe not. Perhaps even our representatives should be from other countries, to get a real global perspective.