But the women at work (mostly minorities) that get knocked up 3 times paid... 2k got and got 6k back... hmmmm... I guess I am paying for her kids. I would love to have kids but apparently I was too responsible...
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I hear you crying from here. Did I read you right? Apparently those women work? And you still slam them???
I was listening to an interview on the radio on the way home, can't recall the author's name, but he's a young white kid from NY, who decided to go 'underground' and work at laborious jobs around America for the past year. This put him in very close contact with illegals, legals, American citizens of all color and ages, and some interesting employers.
What did he find out? The same thing anyone who is fully aware of the USA knows - there is a whole subculture of working poor, extreme poverty that millions upon millions of people exist in every day. Those people are every bit as deserving as you and I. They work for a living and regardless of whether or not they don't work at a job that pays them well, or a job that's prestigious - they work. They get up and go to work, they get a paycheck, they try to do the best they can - they aren't laying around with their hand out. They work. They are the millions of poor or average middle class that in this country earn $35,000 and under for a family. They work. They are not deadbeats.
This author kid worked in the fields picking lettuce among the illegals and as he said, it is a skilled job that he still hadn't mastered after 2 months. Physically demanding work, extremely demanding. Then he worked for a chicken plant in Alabama amongst American citizens and illegals. The work was dangerous and hard - so hard and so demanding, that the people leave it and go to Walmart for a bit and then because they can make a buck more, they head back to the chicken plant. Physically demanding and dangerous because of knives used manually on the job. Lots of injuries but it's what people do to survive. Then he went to NY and got a job as a courier and as a worker in a small family owned operation - paid $4.00 an hour and took a lot of abuse. That's was one common theme that he found - a lot of abuse from employers who exploit the poor that work for them because the poor are too afraid to speak up about anything in case they lose their job. They often work 3 jobs because you can't live in NY on $4.00/hour...and in fact he said the many employers, his were Asian he said, would only hire illegals because they knew an illegal would work for $2.00 and be too scared to leave or complain. Some legal immigrants were telling them they were illegal, just to get a job.
Asked what he thought America needed after a year working with laborers in all the jobs he had? His answer: better wages; unions; better working conditions..
So every time I hear someone bitch about lazy ass people who aren't paying taxes - and those lazy ass people are working their lazy asses off and paying taxes just like the next guy - I think of how small those who reign supreme really seem to be. sammieswife.
