Too Many People Don''t Have Enough To Do

Scott Morefield today has an excellent post, really for any time of year, but especially for Labor Day.  His article at Townhall.com entitled America's Problem Isn't 'Systematic Racism.' It's That People Need To Get Back To Work. He asks the question, "how can so many afford to riot and loot? Doesn't anybody work anymore?" Of course, most people do in fact work, and thank goodness they do. Imagine your life it you had to make everything around you yourself. Can you make all the parts that make a car run, for example? And do you know how to grow your own food? What about if you or someone gets sick? Are you capable of performing surgery? Yeah, I thought not. People need each other. So, after a little rant about all these destructive riots he makes his point:

Of course, it’s no coincidence that one of the most significant times of social upheaval has come in the midst of one of the greatest government-created disasters in history. Our overblown response to coronavirus took life-sustaining work away from far too many people for far too long. Millions of people, from business owners to front line workers, were essentially told by their government that their jobs were so counterproductive, so purposeless, so ... “nonessential,” that society would rather PAY THEM TO SIT AT HOME than to actually do their jobs and earn their living by the proverbial sweat of their own brows. In retrospect, how sick is that? There are certainly greater blows to one’s sense of self-worth, but not many. Someday, when history gets some real perspective on this tragic era, the deliberate refusal to allow millions of Americans to pursue their livelihoods will be clear for what it was - pure evil.

Take the African-American community, for example, a group sadly among those hardest hit in every possible way. Before the coronavirus panic began, black unemployment sat at historically low levels. Now it languishes in the teens. Restaurant and service industry workers, a significant percentage of whom are minorities, were basically told “your job isn’t important,” then given an extra $600 per week in federal unemployment on top of what the states already granted. It was every leftist’s wet dream times ten, millions of Americans on the government teat. And most, sadly, were deceived as to the overall lethality of coronavirus and thus supported the lockdowns not because of reality, but because the governments that implemented them essentially PAID THEM OFF.

I have noted before that the world only needs so many film majors, womyns' studies majors, indeed any field that ends in "studies" is a field with which the world can do without.  A lot of these people could earn a very good living, not to mention doing immense good for the community and the United States learning a trade.  The world can always use another welder, machinist, tool and die maker, mechanic and so on.  And guess what?  There is no 6 figure debt to be paid off either.

For those who feel that such trade work is beneath them, it helps to look at doing these things as being of service to your fellow man.  Each one of us contributes to the livelihood, the prosperity, and comfort of so many others.  But by doing that, we are also contributing to our own livelihood, prosperity and comfort. 

Morefield again:

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh nailed the tragic irony in June with this tweet: “If you’ve been protesting ... because you don’t have to work or contribute to society and yet are still able to live in comfort, the system you seek to destroy is the very one that enables you to live that way. Take the system down and that easy life of yours goes with it.”

I can’t help but think that our societal problems aren’t caused by “systemic racism,” or “the patriarchy,” or capitalism, or “white privilege,” or any of the other nonsensical non-issues leftists trot out to try to fool people into accepting their sick, twisted “solutions.” No, the answer, or at least AN answer, is a lot simpler than all that - more people just need to get back to some good old-fashioned, productive, life-sustaining WORK!