Glad you made it out. I am stuck retired here in the boon docks of northern Ca. I detest the crap about cheap labor, when I need help on my small farm, I just go to the local high schools 4H club and hire a couple of the local kids who can use some spare money.
I am also getting pretty tired of hearing how completely impossible it would be to deport all of the illegals in my state. This is probably the worst example I could use but here it is.
Between 1938 and 1945 a great deal more than 6 million people were removed from their homelands and transported to centralized locations. For at least 6 million of those people the end result was one of the most horrific crimes against humanity the world has ever experianced. But it does show that mass transport can be done. It can be done humanely and competently and in accordance with the laws of the land.
Eisenhower managed to do it in the 1950s ( Operation Wetback) and the infrastructure was not nearly what we have available today. Call me heartless if they will, but the reason I am still in this lunatic state is because I had to rule out the southwestern states and and my wife ruled out any where to hot and humid in the summer and to cold and icy in the winter.
I detest the crap about cheap labor, when I need help on my small farm, I just go to the local high schools 4H club and hire a couple of the local kids who can use some spare money.
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Good for you! I come from a farm family and cash rent several quarters still (neither in CA) and I’m happy to hear that someone in CA still helps the 4H kids. Around here almost all the kids start working for the farms at age 14, it is almost a rite of passage.
We had to settle for cold and icy winters to escape but it was still the best thing we ever did. Life is so much nicer when you don’t have gangs shooting at you.
There were also Japanese concentration camps here in the US.