We now know Nowrasteh’s position on Americans who work full time but can’t make it when low-skilled immigrants swarm into their lines of employment: They don’t get trade-adjustment style “transfer payments.” They don’t get welfare.*** They don’t get any government aid. They get private charity and (what so often accompanies private charity) scorn–social “shaming” for their “horrible life decisions.”
Now, it’s one thing to do that for paradigmatic welfare recipients who don’t work- I’ve promoted something similar myself. It’s another to do it for Americans (and lots of immigrants) who get up and work every day. In the ideal version of America that’s been dominant in my lifetime, at least until now, these stubborn working people may not get rich, but they get something as valuable, namely respect and the minimal wherewithal needed to participate in mainstream life.
Meh.
No high school degree?
Yes, you're SUPPOSED to be shamed for falling that low in the social hierarchy.
That's what an F-grade is for. Shaming you into doing better. That's why we have commencement ceremonies. So that those who graduate get celebrated and acknowledged for having just enough of a pulse to complete public skrewel, and those who do not graduate... don't.
If you're competing with illegal aliens for minimum wage unskilled labor... you made some really poor decisions. And maybe you can't dig yourself out of that situation... but maybe you can.
My little brother screwed up just like one of these idiots that Nowrasteh is digging against. Restaurant busser and waiter, unskilled labor, competing with illegals for bad jobs. From age 18 to 26 he played that game. His solution? Remove head from rectum and pursue increased skillset as an AC installer/repairman. Because he KNEW it was a losing fight, and ultimately it's like wrestling a pig in the mud: pointless, unless you LIKE getting all covered in mud and pigshyt.
