Posted on 05/06/2015 4:10:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
All this aside, I seriously doubt Hilliary knows a single thing about working on farms (or anywher else for that matter) and she would support government legislation to license babysitters and make sure she got her fair share of their money in taxes and permits... stamping out the possibility of any 12 year-old ever babysitting without breaking some liberal law. People like her are what destroyed middle-America and small farms.
Remember that large farmer I said had camps full of Mexican workers every summer? He also employed thousands of local workers in our county. And when the old fellow died (Bill Gehring), his sons lost the entire farm due to unavoidable inheritance taxes back in the 80's. I can't count how many people I knew who lost their jobs. So yea, hip hip hooray for liberals and more taxes.
I left Homer Glen in 2011. BTWX Tinley and Lockport. There were grain farms still operating. I suppose that over the last 4 years, there hasn’t been much of a change.
My point, specifically, was that the local grain farmers didn’t employ ANY migrant workers for the grain fields.
The closest migrant worker (IIRC) camps were on I-57, south of Champaign, about 150 miles South where they grew “produce-for-market”.
And of course, she was born in a log cabin that she built herself.
Mmmmhmmmmm, as the son of a Chicago cop and as a professional now living in the Chicagoland suburbs I can attest that she is full of crap. You want to see corn fields Hillary? Live in Iowa for a couple of years!
Park Ridge, is not farm country, it is an upper class community that is right on the border of Chicago.
Funny story:
During college, my daughter had a seasonal job with a local landscape/greenhouse company in the West-Chicago Suburbs. She worked along-side “Eduardo” at the shop location through the summer of 2003. After her college time, she returned only to find that “Eduardo” had left to go back to his family in Mexico.
She would now be working at the shop along-side “Pedro”. Pedro was Eduardo.
The only temporary hand labor I remember on grain farms was detassling corn, but most of that was by high school kids off for the summer.
In our area of Indiana, we had a migrant “school” where all sorts of services & aid were dispensed. My sister worked there as a teacher, but many volunteered. This was mid ‘60s.
Migrants don’t work corn fields.
Hillary is a bit older than me, but I too remember the workers in the fields. It were me, my family and my friends and their families. Guess what? We were predominantly white, with our fathers working regular jobs. The reason we picked fruit and vegetables? To teach us the value of an earned dollar, to get us used to getting out of the house and independent. The “when you are 18, you’re out the door” syndrome. We would catch the bus to the fields around 5 am, and come home around 3 pm. The bus even came right up our street, and our family was not renting. I am sure others can relate, but it was not uncommon for little chillrun to do this. I can remember being 8 years old and toiling in the strawberry fields, with my brother and sisters.
We lived near Park Ridge in Des Plaines in ‘63. My brother was born in PR Hospital. Farms as far as you could see? Bullsh!t.
Well, to be fair, when Hillary was growing up ‘walking beans’ (removing weeds one by one in soybean fields) and detasseling corn were jobs done by teenagers and definitely sometimes by ‘migrant’ workers. Close to Chicago, there might have been vegetable and landscaping plant farms. Far more likely to have been temp workers from the city rather than migrants.
That Hillary would have done such jobs is just a big giant whopper.
OMG! And the left dumped on Sarah who, supposedly’ stated “I can see Russia from my front porch”? Refresh my mind Ms Fey. Was that back or front porch? Bill’s Hill wouldn’t know a farm if a cow came up offering milk. A Billy goat, perhaps, but certainly no cow. This donkey is despicable.
I grew up in Chicago and there were farms 15-25 miles outside the city, even by the late 80’s.
Well, to be fair, Hillie said she was “baby-sitting” the children of the migrant workers. My point was that migrant workers were more populous MUCH FURTHER south of Chi-town. Some may have passed through Chicago to work in the fruit fields of SW Michigan. (I doubt they “resided” in Chicago and commuted to New Buffalo on a daily basis.)
Your point makes correct the sense that suburban teenagers were employed “topping” corn and walking the bean-rows.
The Old Man was an engineer for A.O. Smith, out of Kankakee. He was tasked at various times with going out to supervise the installation of HarveStor silos. These were the big, navy blue silos that were filled with clover, soy beans, feed corn and grasses, chopped together, which was allowed to ferment into cattle feed. They were steel plate, coated with fiberglass, and had a large rubber bladder in the dome to vent off the gases that developed.
I learned quickly that is I stayed out of the way, I could watch the construction. I saw whole bunches of fields, farms, feed lots, dairy operations, and half drunk cattle. No migrants, tho. Illinois seasons are too short for truck farming. When you consider that there is only a barbed wire fence between there and the North Pole, and that fence is down...
You are spot on. I missed that one.
To Hillary’s credit, she didn’t specify what kind of “farm fields as far as the eye could see growing up in Chicago area”.
Hill probably really means her mom and dad made her help out at a church summer Bible school and there were a couple of brown kids there.
Well, perhaps her memory has been distorted because of her he PTSD, which was brought on by her experience of dodging live fire in Bosnia.
I've never heard Reagan called a democrat thief before.
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