The Immigration Debate; Again.

cobrat
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:33:46 +0000

For example, out of work West Virginia coal miners don’t want to move to Nappa Valley or even across the state to Charleston. Some of the examples, such as the $10 head of lettuce, are just ridiculous. It’s estimated the CPI-Food’s fresh fruits and vegetables component will increase 0% in 2017.

There’s also the factor that farm work in additional to being arduous with long hours at peak harvest times that it has exceedingly low social status in practice despite many “doth protest too much” public protestations to the contrary by many politicians and pundits who’d probably never deign to get near the fields…much less work in them…

The status, in fact, was so low even the local town residents in my White majority local resident NE college town who were underemployed and on public assistance would look askance at the mere suggestion they do farm work. Why no, THEY were “too good” for that line of work.

I wouldn’t be surprised if such attitudes are worse among coal miners or moreso…college educated corporate professionals…especially those in finance/ibanking type careers.

Incidentally, @hebegebe 's comments about whether we Americans lost our work ethic reminded me a bit about an acquaintance’s recent FB discussion remark about how he’s in favor of a national draft.

Knowing him, he is sincere and will try to fulfill his commitment…but will likely end up like a volunteer soldier in Taiwan who wasn’t required to serve because he was American-born and ended up embarrassing himself on the news/internets when his tendency to rub NCOs and his fellow soldiers in his unit the wrong way to the point he was ragged on and “PTed to death” so often he tried to desert and went on a screaming rant while blocking a public escalator with his elderly father embarrassingly trying to get him to get on with fulfilling his commitment on video because he was worried they were going to “kill him”.