NATION WITH CRUMBLING BRIDGES AND ROADS EXCITED TO BUILD GIANT WALL

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(08-30-2016, 03:02 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: This is more than just rewriting code, though. We're talking about employing people to do the job, which means they are no longer unemployed. It's a very dishonest thing to do and would set a precedent that would destroy an already leaking unemployment system.

Part of the unemployment system, at least in the state of Ohio, is the employment section.  Anyone receiving benefits is required to look for work.  Obviously, they don't check everyone but they do engage in random checks and if you get caught not following the rules, you are subject to loss of benefits.

In the application process, you are required to list jobs you can do or would be willing to train to do.  Therefore, if you are offered a job in your chosen field or one closely related, you have to take the job or lose your benefits.

If the gov't came calling with thousands of new jobs in the construction industry, ten times more people than the jobs available would show up to apply and they wouldn't care if it was in the desert or not.

Also, these would not be minimum wage jobs.  Anyone who thinks that is clueless about the construction business.  Nobody in construction works for anywhere near minimum wage.  Unskilled labor on day one is making over $10/hr.

But this is all silly anyway.  No one is ever building a wall in front of Mexico.  Get real.