Posted on 06/12/2015 11:42:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I do not buy the argument that the GOP accuses poor people of being lazy. Nobody should accept false premises.
Lead by example and those coal miners will watch you shovel coal all day.
Changing topics, let’s face it, some folks is just plain lazy, shiftless, worthless, no account, good-fer-nuthin’, bone idle, work shy.
Okay, I’ll do it.
The poor (on average) are lazy.
I see it every day.
By which I mean the permanent poor.
Most people are temporarily poor when they get their first job. Then they are soon not poor.
See tagline.
People learn by example.
When you grow up watching (and helping) your parents work, you “get it.”
We sat elbow to elbow using roach clips to attach caps on units and we were not allowed to talk. We got 2-ten minute breaks per 8-hour shift and 1/2 hour for lunch.
Bathroom breaks - you signed in and out with a time limit and they weren't happy about it either. Make your quota!!!
How ironic Mike has a show illustrating Americans working hard and doing the jobs Americans won’t do. Incredible.
>>The poor (on average) are lazy.<<
Perhaps the Vunnables. Ever seen a road crew, roofers, brick layers, construction crews, plumber/electrician helpers, painters, AC/Heating guyz.
Typically low wage earners, barely above the poverty threshold...and they work harder than most.
In fact, most youngins today working in IT, offices, government workers that make twice/three times what they do couldn’t last two hours on the job they do without having an anxiety attack or shear exhaustion.
Mike Rowe
BTTT
How are they counting "job openings"? I have applied for jobs that fit my skill set and never got a call back. The job will be advertized for six weeks and then vanish only to reappear a couple of weeks later.
Is that counted as one job or two? And is there even a job there in the first place?
I have gotten the impression that many job postings are simply resume collections with there not being an actual job opening.
“PERMANENT POOR” Are you thinking of those people who have been on welfare since FDRs welfare programs in the 1930s, which were expended in 1965 by LBJ? Then I agree. A program some 4 or 5 years ago showed a family in one of the southern states.
It showed a family sitting on the elevated porch of their unpainted house, in early1965, living on FDRs welfare program. The same family with grandparents, parents, children and grandbabies sitting on the same elevated porch of the same unpainted house, upgraded their
welfare. Nothing changed except they were receiving MORE welfare through LBJ’s 1965 welfare programs.
“lets face it, some folks is just plain lazy, shiftless, worthless, no account, good-fer-nuthin, bone idle, work shy.”
Sounds like the imposter we are saddled with for the next 17 months.
I got my first work permit at 12yo, to working on a farm.
Truthfully I began working when I was about 8yo on that same farm.
We would pick our 5 crates of berries(more crates as we got older) and then we were free for the rest of the afternoon
AND he and the queen are living in our whitehouse for free. However, they “must?” pay for their laundry and food.
Exactly. I’m in Tacoma (howdy, tillacum), and on the East Side, there are welfare cases who sit on their butts across multiple generations and complain about “The Man” holding them down.
LBJ is still holding them down, as planned.
Mike Rowe speaks more honest truth on economic and workforce issues than 99% of elected officials do, who are in a position to actually do something about it.
Straight-shooter.
Howdy backache Uncle Miltie. Are the restaurants along the boat floats still serving those wonderful extra small oysters appetizers?
I audited the safety program of Consol Coal in PA. numerous times. The first time, we went 2500’ DOWN and got on a railcar that went back into the mine maybe three, four miles. I kept looking for the miners. After an hour or better our escorts said “Shhh!” as we listened, we heard ‘CHoom, Choom, Choom (not Obama’s kind). The foreman said “That is the sound of money.” As the sound got closer and closer he pointed out where we were sitting and how far away the wall of coal was (about 16’ away). Soon a machine was seen, huge, and tearing that wall of coal down, sending it up a belt and I finally saw a coal miner.He had a “TV remote” to keep the height of the LONG WALL at the right height (about 16’) and the other kept the LONG WALL horizontal at about 20’ in. My glimpse of coal miners was 2 guys with electronics and a fabulous machine. No dust, no backbreaking and no safety issues. The wall was about 30 foot away. God bless Consol Coal and ALL of their employees.
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