We are rakin the bottom. We have welders making 5.50.
Our young people cannot survive here unless they work for daddy.
The people farming, and ranching cannot compete with the big corporate operations without low wages.
The Kids must go somewhere else and the only way to fill those jobs is with migrant labor, as they have done for a hundred years.
There is some industry in the north west parts, but they are going fast. Levis is gone, all the textiles have folded and whirlpool is going to Mexico.
The largest employer in most towns are the social services. The states largest employer is the state, and more than 50% of the population is on assistance and below the poverty line.
Ya want some! And you thought Huckabee was having fun!
We don't need blacksmiths much any more either.
Things change. And the family farm is going the way of the craftman and the apprentice and journeyman system.
Curious how you feel about limiting farm subsidies to $250,000 per farm. Do you think a lot of farm corporations are making their money on government subsidies, thus sucking the family farmers out of the business?
Around here, an awful lot of the cotton goes unpicked and plowed under and I don't think it's from lack of pickers. My husband thinks it's deliberate scamming and says some of these corporations are cut up into a lot of little pieces on paper so they can apply multiple times for subsidies.