Friday, May 01, 2009

what the?

So I flip on the TV to catch some news – and Katie’s got this bit on her CBS news cast about peach farmers who might not have people to pick peaches, because 20% or more of his work force is in Mexico waiting for visas.

Hold ON.

Why not get out of work US citizens to pick the damn 50 million dollar South Carolina Peach crop?

Sure, US people don’t want to do “labor” no that’s not “work” they want a cushy desk job selling insurance to other people working cushy desk jobs.

Well, them damn peaches ain’t picking themselves. How about we send all of our out of work US folks all over the country to do a good solid day’s work? No? Why Not?

Just something that makes me go… Huh?
written (if you can call it that) by before

3 comments:

velocb said...

read the new Outside magazine article about Mike Rowe. That is the crux of the whole article and his show Dirty Jobs.

From the article "how can unemployment be rising while the trades can't find enough workers. How can those two things exist in the same space? How is that people don't want work that pays 5o dollars an hour and keeps them happy all day long?"

You hit it on the head americans want to sit in an office selling to other people sitting in an office. We wonder why we are a nation that is fat and stressed out...

7:40 PM
matt said...

People haven't really worked (myself included) in generations.

8:29 PM
Il Bruce said...

Peaches come from a can.

5:01 PM

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