Reading Blog #4

The problem with the slaughterhouse workers and the treatment is not the fact they are illegals or that they are not represented by a union. The issue is that these illegals are here to work hard and make something of themselves in the land of the freedom. Without these illegals many people don't realize what grocery prices would do. It is simple grocery prices would soar through the roof as if there aren't already high enough. These illegals or migrant workers will come to our country seeking a better life for their family, realizing that they are going to have to bust their ass to make it. They are not picky in what kind of work they will do. In fact many of the jobs they do are those that the white citizen wouldn't even fathom doing. These are the people who work the hot summer fields seven days a week, the slaughterhouses, the ditches for our utilites, and many other dangerous, gross, tideous, and termed worthless jobs of america.

Pre Writing for Paper 4

Paper 4 is going to evoke much emotion, as if paper 3 didn't evoke emotion this one will do much of the same. These papers are giving us the students the oppurtunity to form an opinion if we don't already have one; or to expound on the basis that we already have set forth. The topic has been fairly easy to get interersted in, I have a particuliar interest in the organization of labor unions. For 25 years my Father has been represented by a Union or so you might say. I have never truly heard one good thing come out of my Dad's mouth regarding his union.
The other point that i have regarding unions is the fact that they increase the cost of a product or service the is being sold or rendered. Point being that labor unions take for an example the automakers; the consumer pays $50,000 for a vehicle that should cost a mere $20,000. The reason is that for a non skilled worker represented by a union, who maybe glues the decal on thousands of vehicles each day, instead of it being a $12-$15 dollar an hour job, these jobs have turned into $35-$50 dollar an hour job. Plus these employees have full medical benefits for their family of 8. I believe in taking care of your employees, but what ever happened to the survival of the fittest, instead it has become a socialist empire of survival for all no matter how weak or lazy.

Self Evaluation of Paper 2

It has been truly impressive to step back and anayze my work. I don't mean to toot my own horn. What I am trying to say is that I have really been able to take all of my life experiences and form them into my opinion on how things are and what things need to change. I wrote this paper on the basis of the middle class and specifically the struggle that the middle class faces in helping their children achieve their dreams of an education allowing them to go on and make something more of themselves than what there parents were able to do. After all the definition of middle class is the ambition of children to gain or do more than their parents were able to. All in all this has been a terrific class for myself.