>> the current generation of young Americans (regardless of race) are too lazy and too entitled to even consider doing manual labor
Kids today are no more lazy than kids of decades past. The perceived laziness is merely a symptom of the environment the adults created. It’s a legal liability to have your neighbors kid cut your grass, and it’s beneath the potential of little Johny and Suzie when the “parent knows” there’s a migrant worker to do the job.
As I mentioned in post #116, it might make sense to consider college credits/assistance for kids who spend a season or two in the fields.
Well, all I know is that any "kid" around during our harvest time is either in school or a school drop-out.
Can't count the number of times a young man we've just hired will leave for lunch and never come back. And it's not because of the pay or the way they're treated. It's because the work is hot and hard.