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I guess I'm in the minority, but I'm going to say nationalist. Before we can afford to even attempt to take care of the rest of the world, we need to make sure our people at home are doing okay first. I think we should start by making sure there are enough jobs to go around before exporting any more jobs overseas or giving any more jobs to people who enter our country illegally and can't speak English and don't even want to learn our language.
GeniUs · 56-60, M
This is my principle for the UK;
if there is a need for a work force get the unemployed into work.
If there is a need for specialists allow them to work in the country but find out why there is a shortfall and remedy it where possible.
However I'm not sure about your comment of the US looking after other countries, jobs abroad are done for reasons of economy.
if there is a need for a work force get the unemployed into work.
If there is a need for specialists allow them to work in the country but find out why there is a shortfall and remedy it where possible.
However I'm not sure about your comment of the US looking after other countries, jobs abroad are done for reasons of economy.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@GeniUs I think some companies ship their jobs overseas or hire people who are here illegally because they can pay them less, and that makes it easier for them to keep their prices low. Walmart is the worst offender that I'm aware of. I once wandered around the store for hours, trying to find a worker who spoke English who could help me. The trouble is, even if this seems to be good for our economy because it helps keep prices low, it can become a quality of life issue if we can't get English-speaking people to help us find things at the store. And it's even worse when you're learning a new job and there are no English-speaking people available to train you. I had that experience at the post office when I was transferred to automation. There was a small core group of English-speaking people who were permanent employees, who had been working there for a long time and who knew the job well, but they were all tired of constantly training in new people and felt that it was someone else's turn to do it. So I ended up being "trained" in by two people who could hardly speak a word of English intelligibly. After this "training", I still had lots of questions, and I ended up making a lot of mistakes, because there was still so much that I didn't know. I didn't feel that I should have had to struggle to learn a new job because there were no English-speaking people who were willing to train me. But I guess that's how it is now, at least at certain companies. It may seem economical, but there will be a price to pay down the road, and I don't think it's worth it.
But I agree, we should get the unemployed into jobs, as soon as possible. Hopefully they will know English, or be willing and able to learn it.
But I agree, we should get the unemployed into jobs, as soon as possible. Hopefully they will know English, or be willing and able to learn it.