Quote Originally Posted by SmokinDVM
My Great Grandparents came from Germany and Ireland. My Grandpa worked in the coal mines in Southern Missouri when he was 8. He was heavily involved in organizing labor in the US, and risked his life on many occassion to improve things in this Country for everyone. I saw the scar on the back of his neck, where the bullet, fired by the Police who were on the "company" payroll, was removed.
It makes me sick when people talk so cavalierly about going back to the times that big companies payed shit to people who worked for them for 30yrs, if they lived that long, only to die in the street because they didn't make enough money to save any.

Why don't you ask your Grandparents, or whichever relative it was that emmigrated to the US, exactly what the times were like. Ask them how many people they knew that didn't "make" it. Find out how many people got sick and lost that job they worked at for 15hrs a day, and just disappeared after.

Your ancestors wanted better for you, don't you want better for your children?

We have a lot of problems in this Country. Illegal immigration isn't the worst, but it exacerbates all the others.


That sign is funny, but my wife is legal and still makes a tasty burrito.
...and this is just what kills me about this generation. Our great grandparents and grandparents - and even my parents worked their asses off to grab a piece of the pie. I've worked hard all of my life to grab mine - although I have to admit, I didn't work at heavy construction jobs most of my life like my father did.

And then comes the current generation. It's beneath them to work cutting grass, washing dishes, busing tables, working in a car wash - in general, getting their hands dirty... Why? Because that's what "losers" do. Yet - if I had to provide for my family I'd swim across a river and sneak into a place that would allow me to make a living doing anything if I couldn't provide for my family near my home. That's just what you do for your family, right?

When I was growing up, it was not a bad thing to work in a restaurant - or mow lawns - or clean horse stables. It was a way of making money - I don't care how much it paid, it paid cash... And now those jobs aren't good enough for our youth???

In my view - our kids are lazy because we've provided so well for them. They feel they don't have to work hard because it's there... WTF is wrong with this picture???