Constitution don't mean crap

[mortdooley]

The problem at its core is that Americans have such a low birth rate that Immigration is the only way to keep the government house of cards upright for a little longer.  Every incentive has the ultimate goal of bringing more people to our country no matter how they get here or how much they will never embrace our culture.  I believe the new name for illegal alien is "unregistered democrat"and we have almost reached the point where the non-taxpaying voters will out number working ones.

[Badgersmilk]

You've seen the bumper sticker: "Work harder, millions of welfare recipients are counting on you!"


Wanna know how to stop that in a BLINK!?!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510707,00.html

[MikeBjerum]

The "not enough Americans" is an old and tired argument.  The truth is that we have enough Americans, but we don't have enough Americans that want to work for a living!

[tt11758]

The "not enough Americans" is an old and tired argument.  The truth is that we have enough Americans, but we don't have enough Americans that want to work for a living!

I realize I'm old, but I remember a day when shoveling shit or digging ditches wasn't "beneath the dignity" of real Americans.

[Timothy]

I realize I'm old, but I remember a day when shoveling shit or digging ditches wasn't "beneath the dignity" of real Americans.

Ever mow an acre with one of those old "whirly" push type mowers?

No wonder I was a skinny kid, I worked my ass off for most of my childhood for almost nothing...minimum wage in 1972 was what, about $1.40 and I was damn glad to get it...

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[PegLeg45]

Ever mow an acre with one of those old "whirly" push type mowers?

No wonder I was a skinny kid, I worked my ass off for most of my childhood for almost nothing...minimum wage in 1972 was what, about $1.40 and I was damn glad to get it...

Heck, make it 2 acres and we can talk. 
Man, oh man....I remember cropping tobacco from just after sunup to sundown and then laying irrigation pipes after dark.....for $21 a day.

[tombogan03884]

At 13 I started working with my Dad, Logging, selling firewood, and building. $5 an hour.
Biggest problem was 13 years later he was still paying me $5 an hour.
That was when I went to Vo Tec and started machining at T/C Arms.
For $4.50     

[Rastus]

Working in the field with a hoe and rake.  There is a lot to do when the tractor is finished.  Planting and picking cucumbers, peppers, corn, peas, peanuts, strawberries, eggplant...you name it.  Strawberry picking was the worst.  The fun came guarding the corn and stuff from the coons...give them time to get in the corn then flush 'em out with dogs so they'd run up the trees right at the edge of the field.  You KNOW what came next via .22 LR.

Then there was the working in chicken houses from time to time.  When the chickens were rotated out and the houses cleaned there was time to hunt rats at night...fun for a 14-15 year old with a pellet gun or rat shot.

Then there was the chain saw time cleaning up and collecting firewood. 

I don't know what I made...not so much is all I can recall.

Strange, but that's the kind of stuff I'd rather be doing right now. 

[Timothy]

Heck, make it 2 acres and we can talk. 
Man, oh man....I remember cropping tobacco from just after sunup to sundown and then laying irrigation pipes after dark.....for $21 a day.

fun stuff...

I couldn't get my own kid to make her own bed but, she's never stopped working since she turned 16 and doing far better than her friends who attended state colleges, mostly liberal arts majors...

[crusader rabbit]

Most of us old farts have stories about how hard we worked as kids. 

Back in the day, my best pal's dad was a general contractor.  He'd employ us on Saturdays and over vacation days.  Paid us $10-a-day for framing, nailing down sub flooring, pushing loads of cement, stacking lumber, or just about anything else nasty, dusty, hot, or hard that came up.

Those times he didn't have any work were filled with us straightening up his shop, cleaning up the yard, changing oil in the gas-powered equipment, or just messin' about with some of his power tools--and that was all for free.

As a reward for some of the "free" labor, the old man gave us an old Briggs and Stratton engine and access to his welding equipment.  We built us a go-kart.  And the results nearly killed off his work force.

I hadn't thought about this stuff for ages until I started reading this thread.

Man, I miss those days...  (sigh)