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To: madfly

I know lots of college kids who have worked hospitality on Cape Cod and there must be lots more who would like to. One friend's kid spent several summers chipping paint, cleaning bathrooms, cutting grass, whatever.

I know the apple growers in Massachusetts value Jamaicans who have been working here since 1942 (during the WWII labor shortages) over Americans because they are more workmanlike and really value the jobs. Farmers complain that Americans damage the trees and aren't as productive.

I live in "apple country" (think Verifine) and the Jamaicans you run into in the grocery store seem to come from another planet. Coal black skin, workmanlike demeanor and dress, polite and gracious. It is hard to understand how a country populated with people like this can possibly be poor.


10 posted on 03/10/2005 1:05:49 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
the Jamaicans you run into in the grocery store seem to come from another planet. Coal black skin, workmanlike demeanor and dress, polite and gracious. It is hard to understand how a country populated with people like this can possibly be poor.

Thirty years of socialism.

45 posted on 03/10/2005 2:26:54 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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