“Americans don’t want to pick cotton at 105 degrees...”
What a lie. Plenty of people would do it, but they’re not going to do it for $4 an hour.
These people are scum, thinking we should be grateful for depressed wages.
No. There really aren’t. Even at higher wages. I know that sugar cane is usually picked by workers from the Caribbean. Because it is near impossible to find local people who will pick it. That is why there is a legal means of bringing in temporary workers. If businesses are not verifying status of workers they should be charged and fined accordingly.
Many illegal immigrants did it in the southern states for more than a hundred years. Maybe not 105 but with all that summer humidity....
Neither does anyone else, depends on how hungry you are. Plenty of share croppers picked cotton just too eat, back in the day.
We have always had cheap labor but immigrants were not required they just used poor white trash. Poor is poor and origin has nothing to do with it.
Machines pick cotton these days.
Cotton is no longer picked by hand in South Georgia and I’m sure its not in Texas as well. They have machines to pick cotton. Bush could have said apples, oranges and other fruits and been right but not cotton. He really and truly doesn’t know his A$$ from a hole in the ground and just needs to STFU !
Just another Bush ignoramus:
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Not only are they scum they are out of touch and totally disconnected from the average American. The last time the “elites” were this disconnected politically their heads became disconnected from their torsos.
Exactly.
“Americans don’t want to pick cotton at 105 degrees...”
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Remember the Bush administration’s talking point, ‘we need people who will do the jobs that Americans won’t do’? It was misleading at best. Americans can and will do those jobs, especially at beginner and entry level.
Which brings up an observation I have made. Notice how the younger generations like the Millennials are characterized as lazy, unmotivated and entitled? Is it a coincidence that Millennials were growing up in an environment were lower end / entry level jobs are being filled with illegals?
I was born in 1962. When I was a teen or working my way through college, I worked as a dishwasher, cutting grass for condominiums and laid sod for new home construction. It was tiring and back breaking work by I loved it. I look back at those days in fondness and sometimes I wish I could do that again as opposed to sitting in an office cubicle.
Bottom line is that these types of entry level/manual labor jobs BUILDS work ethic, character and goal setting.....things that our younger generations have trouble with. Hves illegal aliens hurt the work ethic of our youth? I think so and that there is a strong correlation to it. We may not be making fun of Millenials now if those dish washing / lawn cutting / sod laying jobs were available to them when they were in and just out of high school.
Something to think about.
“Americans don’t want to pick cotton at 105 degrees...”
Nobody, not even Mexicans “pick cotton” in the US anymore, it’s all machine harvested, has been for decades, what a moron.