Monday, April 19, 2010

We could learn a few things from our legal, and illegal immigrants

I hear this argument all of the time from those who argue against immigrants, legal and illegal. They're taking our jobs, they say.

An interesting friend of mine just applied for a decent job, not the best but far from the worst. The company gave applicants training materials to study for a pretest before being given the opportunity for  an interview. Fair enough, learn something about what you'll be doing if hired. The pretest was timed at 30 minutes, and the information was considerable in the training materials.

My friend was utterly amazed at how many people didn't study for this test. Here's where the irony comes in. So many so-called Americans who want work, weren't willing to put in the time needed to learn a small amount of material to gain decent employment.


I'm sick to death of Americans expecting jobs, and pay, without work. Why should any company have to go so far as to give an open book test to people wanting a job with them? I just hope my friend who studied has a prayer's chance at an interview.

At least the illegals are willing to do what it takes to get and keep the job. How ridiculous is that?

Understanding a wayward parent?

There's much I don't understand about the Tennessee mother who sent her adoptive son back to Russia.

If what we've heard through the media in any way approximates the truth, that family was a in a world of hurt. I understand being afraid of an emotionally disturbed child, and I understand feeling trapped with no way out.

I don't understand how any parent can fail to see the long term ramifications of such an abandonment: after all isn't part of the point behind adoption to avoid those long term ill-effects of not having a family? I also don't see how she didn't know she could terminate her parental rights in a more responsible manner.

How could she not see that her adopted son needed help from mental health professionals? Perhaps she tried, perhaps not. How can you expect a silk purse of a child to be immediately sewn from the pig's ear of life long institutionalization in an orphanage?

The only thing I know for sure is that her callous abandonment has further damaged an already damaged child. To what end he will come is far from assured to be a good one.Taking the media accounts at face value, there had to be a better way to protect her remaining children than by abandoning that boy to the wolves.