re: #346 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Texans Stage Mock Funeral To Mourn The ‘Death Of Good Jobs’ In GOP Congressman’s District

That’s just a show to support an ill-grounded Democrat talking point. Texas receives many immigrants across the border with Mexico. Most come here without any legal authorization, but there they are. Now what?

We don’t feed them to the alligators. We don’t conduct roundups and sweeps. We aren’t allowed to and we probably wouldn’t if we were. We can’t afford to put them all on welfare. That leaves fixing them up with jobs.

They can’t do high skill work, not many of them. So we make do with what we have to work with, and we fix them up with downscale jobs.

Our home-born population isn’t particularly well educated either. We do all right, I guess, according to the NAEP. We have a fairly high fraction of students who enter high school and graduate on time. But we’re not CT or MN or MA.

We can’t provide the tens of thousands of workers Siemens is looking for. Then again, neither can anybody else. It’s not like weaknesses in education are unique to TX.

Things could have been worse. They could have been like much of the rest of the country, with precious few jobs even at the downscale end. It’s nothing to brag about, but it’s nothing to be ashamed of either, that we have grown some jobs, be they ever so humble, in the teeth of a slump.