I guess there signs the economy is getting better or maybe not. I am getting more and more calls from temporary firm recruiters digging for temporary contract gold; sadly, many of these firms are bottom feeders with low balling wages and no benefits. The line is the same. “We are a national staffing firm and are currently seeking a (insert position) for a prominent client of ours.” This may sound great but one may want step back before saying yes.

I would like to leave the following advice when the call is coming in. First, of all most important unless you know the company, do not automatically accept the offer to submit; some companies are good other companies are just bottom feeders looking to get their feet in the door. May of them will lowball the wage and offer squat for benefits. The second equally important is to know thy company. Get to know the client company; some have exclusive relations with a staffing firm. Find which staffing firm has people located at the client’s campus. Important is many bottom feeding temporary agencies will flat out lie and say they have an exclusive relationship when the film are only are third party submitters. Finally keep good records of each submission. The last thing you need is disqualification from a position you are applying to due to a double submission.

I going to split my thoughts on the economic and retraining into separate post.

33‘And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. 34The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

What I have found disturbing was the flippant response by Jim Ludwick of Oregon Oregonians for Immigration Reform hen he said “To be very crass about it, they’re looking for members, and I think that’s partly what’s driving it.”

I find Mr  Ludwicjk comment  insulting to Christians. Our motivation is not numbers but our duty to follow Christ revealed and commanded in scriptures.

            This incident with Ludwick should give concern Christian cultural conservatives who we allow to influence our political beliefs. Mr. Ludwick statement raises my own awareness that even in Conservatism there are differences of worldview of religious and secular conservatives.  On the religious conservative side, there is the Judeo Christian ethic that we all are God creation and our rights and liberties com not from  the consensus of man but from God. Even the verse Leviticus 19:33-34 conveys the ideas of right from God. Israel shall not mistreat the stranger and to be to Israel as one born among them; Why, because the stranger is a special creation of God.  Contrast that to the secular view of protecting secular institutions for the reasons of national sovereignty, entitlement  Ie job only belong to Americans , and conservative political power ( the immigrant tend  to vote democrat). To protect these intuitions even if conservative actions violate  the rights to immigrants that comes from God.

As I listen to conservative talk radios show host or the Tea Party We need to be caution and discerning that we do not compromise our faith in Christ by following the influences of secular cultural conservatism.

Three jobs I had start dates were canceled 24 hours before start time.
Two jobs I applied for I told I was no longer in contention, not because somebody else got the job but the company decided not to fill the position.

I may have found the reason. WSJ reported in an article Employers on Strike, with uncertainty of ObamaCare and looming tax hikes companies are sitting on the cash.

“Almost everything Congress has done in recent months has made private businesses less inclined to hire new workers. ObamaCare imposes new taxes and mandates on private employers. Even with record unemployment, Congress raised the minimum wage to $7.25, pricing more workers out of jobs. The teen unemployment rate rose to 26.4% in May, and for those between the ages of 25 and 34 it rose to 10.5%. These should be some of the first to be hired in an expansion because they are relatively cheap and have the potential for large productivity gains as they add skills.”

As a result, the Obama economic meddling is hurting the ones they claim to help. The Unemployed like me. We all should remember this in November.

via Michael Ramirez Cartoon – Investors.com.

These incidents speak volumes in what wrong in America. First there the anti immigration fallacy get rid of the Mexicans and American will do the jobs. There are two wrongs on this front; in good times, Americans can be fussy. Why work in the hot field when one can work retail for less when the place is air condition and get an employee discount. Second with things are tough with high unemployment, one thinks Americans would be banging down the doors, not so fast. Unlike the poor Jamaican who ether has to work or die, the American can sit around send 200 resumes to employers who are not hiring thanks to our generous unemployment system. Unemployment payouts are a clear disincentive to American supporting themselves by temporary seasonal work.

Still more populist stupidity; “why not raise wages?” the problem is a farming subsist on razor thin profit margins. There a definite level a farm can pay in wages before it cheaper just to let the crops rot or throw in the towel and sell out to a developer.

There are no simplistic answers, putting up roadblock to immigration or pushing disincentives to work via the welfare system are not the answer.

On a side note, this issue angers me to no end over lazy unemployed Americans. I am putting my money where my mouth is and waking the walk. I am doing a $11.00 a hour six day gig. I consider farm work until this gig came up.

“It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore,”
Attributed to John Addams after the adoption of the Decoration of Independence in July 1776.