Are Immigrants doing the jobs Americans don't want?

Yes, immigrants do many of the jobs Americans don’t want. But I think the better question is why are there jobs Americans don’t want to do? When did we as American decide that we don’t want to pick strawberries, clean houses, cook food in kitchens or dig holes for new homes? I think the answer to that is to ask, when did working class Americans determined it was easier or more profitable to make a living somewhere else. I’ll point to two areas in our society that have provided alternate methods of income for working class Americans, illegal trafficking and welfare. I’ll focus on welfare.

Our society is a product of our economy. We live in a moderated capitalist economy with social stilts. The American dream does live on. People in American have more opportunity then any country in the world to change their economic class. There are people stumbling blindly into fame, future and wealth every day. I should also point out there are more people then ever competing for those opportunities, so overall the chance are more numerous, the possibility is probably less then it was 100 years ago. In our growing economy we have created a class of entitled poor. Our poor citizens in the United States live in a world 100 times better then poor in the poorest third world countries. I’d like to point out a whole lot of lazy people are sitting around watching Jerry Springer on cable from the comfort of their air conditioned government housing. We have created an alternate opportunity for our citizens to turn down low paying or physically demanding jobs in return for lazy government support. People are people and without an economic motivator this will not change.

This entitled serfdom is the answer to the part of the question, “jobs Americans don’t want.” If there was no social reform to provide our poor with necessitates they need, then one of two things would happen. They would either violently revolt or they would change their opinions of jobs they “don’t want” and begin to work as cleaner, field workers, cooks and hole diggers.

I know this isn’t part of the question, but I wonder is it good for American that immigrants are doing the jobs we don’t want. I believe there will always be poor in every society. Primarily because I believe in the faults of man and we are in general a very lazy people. If it wasn’t for our intelligence, we would probably be extinct. After all it was our laziness that invented the wheel, the fire, the spear, the gun, the ship the car and so on. It’s our intelligence that says, I don’t like this and I want to change it. How can I do this another way? There will always be people who push us a species forward and those that pull us backwards. Is it good that we as a country are exploiting the services of people from a poorer country just because we don’t want to do these jobs? These jobs exist because we need them. We need holes, cleaning and cooking to grow. This sounds a lot like a spoiled child that doesn’t clean up because, “I don’t want to.”

I have always argued that social reforms are often necessary evils, but evils all the same. That in a perfect world, we would let free markets determine the fate of our people. In a completely free market there would be no welfare and no black markets. All goods and services would set their prices based on market demand. Individuals would either work or not work. They would live or not live. And if picking strawberries in the hot sun was so terrible that no one wanted to do it, someone would invent the Strawberry Gin.