Here at MSU, we have the daily State News. And I found this very interesting in the Opinion section. Read it through!

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Plan might work to fill menial U.S. jobs, deport uncooperative people

 

 

http://www.statenews.com/dispmug.phtml?pk=5646

 

Steve Wojcikiewicz

With debate raging in the U.S. Senate, I've taken it upon myself to come up with a fix for our nation's troubles with illegal immigrants. As I see it, there are two key parts to the dilemma.

First, in this country there are a lot of difficult, unpleasant, sometimes dangerous and usually underpaid jobs that need to be filled. Second, there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. who are doing these jobs.

 

Any really good plan, then, would find a way to fill these jobs and to take care of the illegal immigration problem at the same time.

 

Well, I've got a really good plan, and it doesn't involve making all illegal immigrants into felons or bringing in a bunch of foreign guest workers.

 

The first part of the plan would be a new initiative called the Internal Guest Worker Program, or IGWP. The IGWP would be a sort of national service program in which every American would be required to work for two years in the sort of crappy jobs that illegal immigrants currently fill.

 

Everybody — I mean everybody — would participate. I want to see Ivy League grads working the line in meat-packing plants, children of senators out in the fields of California, CEOs flipping burgers and millionaires schlepping boxes around warehouses.

Even our leaders in Washington D.C. could participate. We've all seen pictures of President George W. Bush out on the ranch clearing brush, so I'm thinking he could try some landscaping. Dick Cheney could definitely work in a meat-packing plant, since he's such a big hunter and all. And Tom DeLay's nickname is "the hammer," so maybe he could try construction. He's not busy these days anyway.

 

OK so far? Good. Now for the second part of my plan, the Un-Immigration Program, or UIP for short. The UIP would go along with the IGWP.

 

The UIP would work via a simple process. The government would circulate a national questionnaire that asks, "Are you willing to work long hours at a potentially difficult, unpleasant, dangerous and underpaid job so that Americans can continue to live in the manner in which they are accustomed?"

 

Anybody who gives the right answer ("yes") will be enrolled in the IGWP, as laid out above. Anybody who gives the wrong answer ("no") will be enrolled in the UIP. Enrollment in the UIP would mean immediate deportation.

See? Simple and effective.

 

These two programs will pretty much solve all our problems. First, the IGWP will make sure that the jobs that nobody wants will be filled. Second, when the UIP is through deporting the lazy and the uppity, the illegal immigrants who are already here can become citizens, since we'll have some extra room and some newly opened jobs.

 

Of course, there will be difficulties. If we really get rid of all the people who don't want to work in the IGWP, we might have to deport a sizable number of our upper- and middle-class citizens.

 

Sport-utility vehicle sales would plummet. Gated communities would be depopulated. Our national reputation for shameless consumption would take a major hit.

 

Still, even these difficulties might be turned to good. When we ship these people out, we can send them to countries that are trying to build democratic governments — countries like, say, Iraq. These upper- and middle-class Americans could serve as role models, the living results of a free-market economy and government by the people. Iraqis would have a goal to aim for. Just think how inspirational this would be.

 

This plan seems to have no downside.

 

Then again, a lot of people might be upset once they start on their IGWP jobs. They might start complaining, asking for higher wages and better working conditions, making all kinds of trouble.

 

I have to admit, I don't know what would happen then. We might just have to hope that IGWP workers will keep quiet, content in the knowledge that their sacrifices are for a good cause, the cause of maintaining the American standard of living.

 

And if they won't keep quiet? Well, we could always deport them.

 

Steve Wojcikiewicz is an educational psychology doctoral student. Contact him at [email protected].

hahaa!! Deport them to where though? This is a tongue and cheek article, no? I thought it was brill! lol

oh definitely tongue and cheek.

 

I dunno exactly where to. But he is pointing out the flaws and gaps in the bill and system.

 

but the man has some legitimate points.

I liked it....

 

to summarize... "shut the fuck you whinning bastards and lets come to a reasonable solution"-- I think this is the general message I get from this... lol its brill!