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Posted on 7/12/25 at 6:36 am to UtahCajun
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They did for decades prior to the worker shortage brought on by WW2. Almost all Louisianians have grandparents or parents that picked cotton, yams, worked rice fields etc in the early to mid 1900's. Both of my parents did.
Yeah but we didn’t have much welfare back then.
My great grand parents told me about how their parents used to put all the kids to work in the fields. Even like 5 year olds.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 6:44 am to wm72
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These were boys that grew up dirt poor and without air conditioning in the deep south and they didn't paint too rosy a picture
Acclimation.
My first summer in Utah was not nice. People say "oh, its a dry heat". They have no idea. Dry heat makes the sun feel like it is 2 feet off the back of your neck. After my first summer however, it wasn't that bad. I now have to acclimate myself back to humidity.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 6:46 am to GeauxTigers123
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Yeah but we didn’t have much welfare back then
Had none until FDR. You make it sound like welfare is a good thing for society.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:03 am to 3nOut
Everyone says that they are willing to accept higher prices, until they have to routinely pay the higher prices. Then the bitch is epic.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:16 am to bigjoe1
The aversion to reading more than a paragraph on this site really accentuates America's education problems!
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:20 am to Penrod
Same. Go figure that the fashionable response to an insightful read is some drive-by comment being proud of refusing to read it.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:35 am to 3nOut
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The end results of all of these sort of articles are the same. Certain industries will do everything they can to avoid paying people a fair wage.
The wage is paid ultimately. Healthcare, schooling, food stamps, housing. If you had to pay people enough for them to afford all these things on their own, more Americans would be willing to do it. On flip side, if Mexicans wouldnt do it either without the free govt handouts
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:46 am to UtahCajun
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Had none until FDR. You make it sound like welfare is a good thing for society.
Bro. Idk how you got that. All I did was state the facts.
In fact I think that welfare is the reason our own citizens don’t want to do manual labor anymore.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:55 am to bigjoe1
Summary, we need what amount to slaves to provide us our produce.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:46 am to 3nOut
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third world slaves
Oh spare me. This “slavery” is so brutal and oppressive that thousands of people break the law every year to sneak into America and sign up for it.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:48 am to scottydoesntknow
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he wage is paid ultimately. Healthcare, schooling, food stamps, housing. If you had to pay people enough for them to afford all these things on their own, more Americans would be willing to do it. On flip side, if Mexicans wouldnt do it either without the free govt handouts
Are there Mexican-only welfare programs I haven’t heard about? It’s even easier for American citizens to get on welfare than it is for illegal immigrants. Your brain is cooked if you’d even argue that tbh.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:51 am to Russvegas Dan
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A-TEAM
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:52 am to Old Sarge
Exactly.
Most liberals fail to realize that fact.
Most liberals fail to realize that fact.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:53 am to LRB1967
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He can drive a tractor better than most men twice his age.
What about your ol' lady?
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:58 am to Old Sarge
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Migrant worker programs are ok
Illegal workers are not ok
/thread
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:04 pm to OKBoomerSooner
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It’s even easier for American citizens to get on welfare than it is for illegal immigrants. Your brain is cooked if you’d even argue that tbh.
I didnt make that argument, you did
Posted on 7/12/25 at 7:19 pm to bigjoe1
Those “jocks” had homes to go back to and likely weren’t poor.
Hunger is a great motivator, which has been removed from the equation for most Americans.
If we removed all the entitlements and handouts, there would be no jobs that Americans won’t do.
Hunger is a great motivator, which has been removed from the equation for most Americans.
If we removed all the entitlements and handouts, there would be no jobs that Americans won’t do.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:13 pm to UtahCajun
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Almost all Louisianians have grandparents or parents that picked cotton, yams, worked rice fields etc in the early to mid 1900's. Both of my parents did.
My family didn't. My Grandfather was born in Minnesota in 1903. They moved to SWMS (Woodville, Centreville, Liberty, McComb) and made their way. My Grandmother was from a family in that area. They had been there for decades prior to the Civil War. Yes they had slaves and we have the Emancipation Proclamation from Lincoln in the family archives. Granddad worked construction building homes. The only crops he picked was in his back forty garden.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 8:33 pm to NBR_Exile
Are there too many of these laborers to fill these types of jobs down there? Do they have to come here to find work? These are jobs that no one wants to touch yet these people risk everything to come and grovel in the fields and orchards for small wages. What’s the draw? Are things that bad down there?
This country needs them but why doesn’t their country?
This country needs them but why doesn’t their country?
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