Seen in Print

[HONDO74]

So, who's going to mow your lawn and keep your gardens nice and tended, put that new roof on the house, service the HVAC, replace the siding, replace the doors and windows, do the service on your cars, do construction work, and so on and on and on........ People complain about no jobs, but it's really complaining about no jobs that let them sit at home watching TV.

I mow the lawn I haven't seen any Mexican gardeners in this area. The garden I turned over to all the little critters that thought it was a great Smorgasbord. Now I put food out for them like deer corn and black oil sunflower seeds. We have a farmers market twice a week. Lots of home grown veggies.

The new roof (twice) was done by Mexicans. The owner of the company says he has a continual ad for help and has never had a white or black apply. The next town over has a large Mexican population. There are a lot of chicken processing plants in that area and they pay very good money.

A lot of the construction I had done like the addition on the house for my mother in law was done by the Amish. They are very hard working people. At least in this area.

A lot of home town businesses for automotive and HVAC service. I haven't seen any Mexicans in that area.

[rogruth]

I'm going to regret this but I have just a little to say about this situation.

Apparently it is easy to live in this country without working.It is hard for me and some others to understand why people don't want to work.
Many Latinos (?) seem to do very well doing the jobs that others do not want for low pay that others that are jobless will not accept.
My experience with immigrants that came to the U.S. using the lawful steps were people who tended to learn American English and became part
of their communities, something that isn't done often today.

How do the "needy" that are in this country now feel about many more thousands coming?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

How do the "needy" that are in this country now feel about many more thousands coming?

As long as their unemployment and whatever public assistance checks keep coming, I doubt that they really care.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Works for me most of the time.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

so many clever minds. so little time.

[HONDO74]

[rogruth]

Hmmmm. So that is what some think.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Works for me most of the time.

This is darn clever, Roger. "Works for...most of the time," is fun, too.
My hat's off to you, sir!
Murph

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Seen in print, speaking volumes:
If you do a search for "Carpe Diem," a cartoon series by Niklas Eriksson, you will see today's cartoon by him. I think the message is flawless.

(I'll try to describe it using an economy of words:)
Picture a fish tank of approx. 3'Lx 2'Tallx1'W, filled w/ water, sitting in a room on a cabinet, containing a community of fish moving around. One fish says to another, "This may seem weird, but my research indicates that the Universe has the shape of a perfect cuboid."

[HONDO74]

If you do a search for "Carpe Diem," a cartoon series by Niklas Eriksson, you will see today's cartoon by him. I think the message is flawless.

(I'll try to describe it using an economy of words:)
Picture a fish tank of approx. 3'Lx 2'Tallx1'W, filled w/ water, sitting in a room on a cabinet, containing a community of fish moving around. One fish says to another, "This may seem weird, but my research indicates that the Universe has the shape of a perfect cuboid."

carpe diem cartoon Niklas Eriksson
https://www.google.com/search?q=carpe+d ... 13&bih=605

[up148]

Apparently it is easy to live in this country without working.It is hard for me and some others to understand why people don't want to work.
Many Latinos (?) seem to do very well doing the jobs that others do not want for low pay that others that are jobless will not accept.
My experience with immigrants that came to the U.S. using the lawful steps were people who tended to learn American English and became part
of their communities, something that isn't done often today.

Many, many truths in that statement Roger. I've observed the same thing with many immigrants, not just Latinos. Many (not all) are like the hard working immigrants who came to this country in the 1700's, 1800's and early 1900's and worked their *ss off to scratch a living out of a new world. They were hungry to succeed and to be successful in some capacity. Many new immigrants have this same drive to succeed. They come from a world where no matter how hard they try, they're held back by something.

Some of our generation, more of the next and many of the current, aren't willing to work as hard to succeed. Maybe we tried to hard to make life easier for the succeeding generations, but it's evident to me, they've been spoiled and many don't even see it. By the time they wake up to this fact, if ever, they'll be working for people who have only lived in this country a decade or two or continuing to b*tch that the government isn't doing enough for them....they want more than just a trophy for everyone (pathetic idea). Young people with college degrees, can be the most dangerous thing on our planet. Book knowledge, without common sense or wisdom, is a very scary scenario.

I'm not too thrilled people from other countries feel they have the right to storm our borders or that we owe them a lifestyle. I understand what they want, but even Moses limited the number of passengers he loaded up so the ark didn't sink. Pretty soon, our land of plenty, is going to be swamped (I think it might be already), and when that happens, we all go down.

My experience with immigrants that came to the U.S. using the lawful steps were people who tended to learn American English and became part of their communities, something that isn't done often today.

Yeah, whose idea was it to make Spanish a 2nd language in our country? Beginning of the end in my book,

Opinion of course.

BH

[HONDO74]

but even Moses limited the number of passengers he loaded up so the ark didn't sink.

BH

Not to be picky, but I believe it was Noah that had the ark. Moses took all the people he could get through the Red Sea to the promised land.

[HONDO74]

Yeah, whose idea was it to make Spanish a 2nd language in our country? Beginning of the end in my book,

Opinion of course.

BH

It is actually worse that that, when we lived in Kansas my daughter let her drivers license expire so she had to take the written test and drivers test over to get a new license. Since her license was expired we didn't want to take a chance on her driving her car there so I went with her so she could use my car.

That day there was only one other person there and that person could not read or speak English. They let him have an interpreter for both test and he passed. I kept thinking, how does this person manage when they are out there on their own if the can't read all the signs.