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When I was in high school I baby sat and cleaned houses on the weekends for extra money during the school year. During the summer I worked at Burger King.
During college I worked retail 35 hours a week most of that time. I also did a stint of sitting with elderly people in the evening - it made it easy to do homework and make money at the same time.
This is the America I remember. I don't know when Americans stopped doing these things or when people started believing they did. I know young people who still work at fast food places, babysit and do odd jobs. My own grandkids (as did my kids) would pick up any work people were will to pay for, getting hay, stacking wood, clearing brush, putting up fences, etc. I see legal citizens of all ages doing service jobs everyday. Perhaps it is a geographic problem.
I grew up across the street from a winery. I visit on average two wineries every weekend. I would not pick grapes for anything less than $100 an hour. Nor would I flip burgers, hang drywall, plow snow, plant shrubs, clean houses, or mow grass. I welcome immigrants to enter this country and handle these less desirable tasks with open arms.
Why is the government (taxpayers) subsidizing your lifestyle? Every other post you are crying about being broke and needing taxpayers to cover raising your kids.
I grew up across the street from a winery. I visit on average two wineries every weekend. I would not pick grapes for anything less than $100 an hour. Nor would I flip burgers, hang drywall, plow snow, plant shrubs, clean houses, or mow grass. I welcome immigrants to enter this country and handle these less desirable tasks with open arms.
I still get energy assistance and health care. I have to provide birth certificates, social security cards, picture id's, bank statements, daycare receipts, pay stubs and copies of Utility bills. I do not qualify unless I can provide everything. And that is actual fact.
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Originally Posted by LowonLuck
I grew up across the street from a winery. I visit on average two wineries every weekend I would not pick grapes for anything less than $100 an hour. Nor would I flip burgers, hang drywall, plow snow, plant shrubs, clean houses, or mow grass. I welcome immigrants to enter this country and handle these less desirable tasks with open arms.
Don't you think energy assistance and free/subsidized health care is intended for people who can't afford to visit two wineries every weekend? This is what is broken in the system.
Heres another angle on illegal aliens. Assume there are 12 million here, residing.Every day, week, year they are here, like citizens, require 2 things: Goods and Services. Those 2 things cost money. So if we kick them all out many businesses would suffer. Like Pampers, Budweiser, police depts. would lay off people.
I have to laugh at them trying to show their illegal immigrant purchasing power by staying home. I love the part most that a in LA the traffic isn't so terrible. Like food for their kids, will just have to be bought tomorrow...........
About 100 businesses were closed yesterday in Detroit in support and there was a lot of police presence in the downtown area. They were holding "Stop Deportation" signs. We discussed this at lunch and it's amazing how many people group all immigrants together instead of realizing the huge difference between legal and illegal
I hadn't watched the news so I had no idea this was planned and just found out about it Friday afternoon. I did not notice a bit of difference in my daily routine. Looks like they just showed us how little they are actually needed.
After 18 employees at a Tennessee-based painting company skipped work this week to attend a pro-immigration rally, they received a brutal lesson about right-to-work laws they won’t soon forget.
According to KTNV-TV, 18 employees at Nashville’s Bradley Coatings were fired after they informed their supervisors on Wednesday they were missing work the next day to attend the nationwide protest, “A Day Without Immigrants.”
The protest sought to show the significance that immigrants play in the U.S. workforce while protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
However, on Thursday when the employees didn’t show up to work, they learned that they had been terminated.
They weren’t the only employees to understand the harsh realties of skipping work in a right-to-work state.
Twenty-one people were fired in Lexington, S.C., after they too skipped on work to attend the protest, according to WLTX-TV.
As it should be. Actions have consequences as those workers just found out... They won't be getting unemployment any time soon either...
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Actions have consequences as those workers just found out... They won't be getting unemployment any time soon either...
