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There was a time in this country when working people were respected, people who were satisfied to work a blue collar job their entire career.
We went to a movie last night called "Out of the Furnace" Part of the movie description said "a man with a dead end job". Why? Because he wore a hard hat everyday and sweated for 8 hours a day? Why is that something to be looked down on?
I've been a blue collar worker my whole life, I wouldn't have it any other way. Do you know what I look down on? A man who has not the first clue how to fix his plumbing or wire something properly or build a structure with square corners. Just because you sit in a cubicle typing on a computer all day doesn't make you better than me.
Look at the way people on this forum rip on working people every day, they don't even want the lowest people on the rung, people who are at least willing to do a job-to have a decent wage.
You will be judged someday on how you treat the least of your brothers. Have you ever heard the bible phrase "If not for the grace of God, there go I"?
It is not O. K. I was taught that any honest work should be respected. Only a skewed sense of values would think like that and think it is O. K. to think like that. Bet you will never have to go on food stamps like the lazy good-for-nothings.
It is not O. K. I was taught that any honest work should be respected. Only a skewed sense of values would think like that and think it is O. K. to think like that. Bet you will never have to go on food stamps like the lazy good-for-nothings.
They think it's OK for their employees to work 40 hours a week for them, and then have to get assistance from the government so they can feed and clothe their children. And then they drive home in their Cadillac Escalade without a worry in the world. And they call themselves "conservatives"
I love the argument "get some skills then"
If they are so damned opinionated on that, why do they hire people over the age of 21 for these FF jobs then? I mean if they think people should be out getting skills, why don't they tell them that in the interview and just hire teenagers?
Because they can depend on adults to show up to work, do the job right and line their pockets with more money, that's why.
Give me honest work outdoors over planting my ass in an office chair any day....In any case why do you care what people think...What you think of yourself and what you enjoy doing is what counts.
There was a time in this country when working people were respected, people who were satisfied to work a blue collar job their entire career.
We went to a movie last night called "Out of the Furnace" Part of the movie description said "a man with a dead end job". Why? Because he wore a hard hat everyday and sweated for 8 hours a day? Why is that something to be looked down on?
I've been a blue collar worker my whole life, I wouldn't have it any other way. Do you know what I look down on? A man who has not the first clue how to fix his plumbing or wire something properly or build a structure with square corners. Just because you sit in a cubicle typing on a computer all day doesn't make you better than me.
Look at the way people on this forum rip on working people every day, they don't even want the lowest people on the rung, people who are at least willing to do a job-to have a decent wage.
You will be judged someday on how you treat the least of your brothers. Have you ever heard the bible phrase "If not for the grace of God, there go I"?
I think it started when the liberals decided they could all be easily replaced with third world illegal immigrants.
I look up to plumbers, carpenters, etc. Those are skills!!!! Mad skillz!!!!
And welders? They're like magicians to me.
The problem I have with my blue-collar job is that it gives me absolutely no marketable skills. Yep, it's entirely my fault for staying there.
I'm a letter carrier and it is like a deal with the devil. I tried becoming a supervisor, but to do that you have to check your conscience at the door.
People on the street sweet-talk you and say you have a wonderful job, but the subtext (to me anyway) is always "Be happy, you're probably too dumb to do anything else, or you wouldn't be there in the first place"
I look up to plumbers, carpenters, etc. Those are skills!!!! Mad skillz!!!!
The problem I have with my blue-collar job is that it gives me absolutely no marketable skills. Yep, it's entirely my fault for staying there.
I'm a letter carrier and it is like a deal with the devil. I tried becoming a supervisor, but to do that you have to check your conscience at the door.
People on the street sweet-talk you and say you have a wonderful job, but the subtext (to me anyway) is always "Be happy, you're probably too dumb to do anything else, or you wouldn't be there in the first place"
In this economy ~ I doubt that is what they are thinking at all. When the dot.com boom was at it's highest point ~ maybe.
There was a time in this country when working people were respected, people who were satisfied to work a blue collar job their entire career.
We went to a movie last night called "Out of the Furnace" Part of the movie description said "a man with a dead end job". Why? Because he wore a hard hat everyday and sweated for 8 hours a day? Why is that something to be looked down on?
I've been a blue collar worker my whole life, I wouldn't have it any other way. Do you know what I look down on? A man who has not the first clue how to fix his plumbing or wire something properly or build a structure with square corners. Just because you sit in a cubicle typing on a computer all day doesn't make you better than me.
Look at the way people on this forum rip on working people every day, they don't even want the lowest people on the rung, people who are at least willing to do a job-to have a decent wage.
You will be judged someday on how you treat the least of your brothers. Have you ever heard the bible phrase "If not for the grace of God, there go I"?
You went to a movie ;so you got on a rant today ;in fact saying you look down on some others; who have other skills. Just as bad and I admire people who have many skills.
It was the very liberal Bill Clinton who sent their jobs out of the country and also opened up the borders so that much cheaper foreign labor could replace these Americans in the workforce.
There was a time when working with your hands could put you in the middle class, let you buy your own home, even put your kids through college.
Now it's the very liberal Obama who expanded NAFTA so that cheap foreign truckdrivers can put American drivers out of work and wants to add 11 to 30 million cheap foreign workers to the legal labor force.
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