I am in Palm Desert Ca. our temps will reach 118* this weekend!! It is 111* right now, I have been running around all day handing out ice cream to the workers in my community, JEEZE I don’t know how these guys work in these conditions BUT every damn day they are out there making my community beautiful!! I have to say there is NOT ONE white guy out there NOT ONE!! So when we complain about immigration I am looking at these guys day after day and wondering where the hell we would be without them!! They have been resurfacing the main pool here for 3 days now OMG I never realized the work to resurface a pool the WHOLE damn pool had to be jackhammered ALL of the cement hauled in wheelbarrows up to trucks in this heat, WHERE THE HELL are my neighbors bringing these poor workers something cool to snack on?? I went to the grocery store today and bought HUGE supplies ice cream stocked them in my freezer in the garage to give to the workers throughout the day!! They are not only resurfacing the MAIN pool they have dug up the entire community to improve electrical problems we were having, THEN there is the golf course they have to maintain and 5 other pools and landscaping for the entire area OMG when people say there are not WHITE guys that would do this work THEY ARE RIGHT!! I am in CA. so it is a completely different ballgame out here I KNOW in the Midwest there are plenty of WHITE farmers HOWEVER who are in their fields day after day harvesting their crops, taking care of their fields?? I have to tell you that after watching this in my community this summer in this heat my heart is breaking for these immigrants AND NO there is NOT A WHITE MAN who would do this work!! SORRY BUT THAT IS THE TRUTH!!!
I forgot to mention that I asked these guys what they were paid an hour they START at $25.00 an hour AND NOT ONE WHITE GUY out there!!!
When it gets that hot construction workers start their day at 5 am and quit for the day at 12.
In spite of all the howling, this is far from the hottest I’ve seen here in July-and we had a cold Winter and cool Spring, as well...
With all due respect-Hispanic is not a race-like most of us, I am White/Caucasian-Hispanic is an ethnic group-ancestors came from Spain and Portugal. There are Black Hispanics from the Caribbean Islands-Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc-but those people are a mix of Caucasian and Black. In the Philippines, there are Asian Hispanics-they are bi-racial, too. Wishful liberals started calling Hispanic a race about 50 years ago to create friction between us and other Caucasians-it is not real unless British and Italian and every other ethnic group are races, too...
I called a halt to work today at noon for me and my 3 co-workers-always do on hottest days in Summer when working outdoors-worker safety comes first, unless you want to lose your company’s insurance coverage...
I don’t disagree with you entirely - but I’m a white 58 yr old guy who dug out a backflow preventer today because all my people were occupied with other urgent matters. In Phoenix. And I’m a manager who makes more money than I deserve, and I contract millions of dollars of work annually. I would agree with you about this though... You don’t see too many YOUNG white guys out there working in the sun.
How did debating climate change turn into an immigration rant with racial overtones thrown in