We can dream...but it won’t backfire. Know many American teenagers? Just look at Obamacare, humans in America are kids now until 26? Those little spoiled bastards, with few exceptions will not take a job that makes them sweat.
That said, I often laugh when I am being told that we need to build a skateboard park or some such because there is just nothing for the kids in our California town to do. Growing up on the farm, I never once complained that I had nothing to do, because my mother could always find something to occupy my time.
Oh I think it does a lot more than simply “make you sweat”. I grew up on a farm. Fed animals, baled hay, horses, built fences, from sunup to sundown, 6am to 6pm. It can be
backbreaking work. I would *not* recommend it to anyone over 30 if you are not in decent shape.
And I don’t appreciate being called a “bastard” by you or anyone else on this forum. Don’t criticize unless you have actually done the work yourself.
It’s a catch 22.... Because the Illegals take the jobs the farmers don’t have to pay even minimum wage and because they won’t pay even minimum wage Americans wont take the job..
I used to sell balloons in 95+ degree heat carrying 50 lbs worth of stuff when I was a teenager (90’s). Sometimes I would make a lot (300 in a day) some times a little (5$ a day)... It averaged out to a bout 10-15$ an hour and had friends lined up to do it should any slots open up.
If these farm workers were paying 10-12$ an hour they would have little trouble finding teens and college students willing to do it.
I couldn’t get a teenager to wash my car for twenty bucks. Last week.
Back in the 1980’s there was an Amway Diamond named Jack Daughery who always talked about his parents being ‘fruit bums’—traveling through Ca during harvest picking fruit. Don’t tell me Americans aren’t willing to take these jobs.
You are pretty much dead on in what you say but I have been fortunate enough to have one of those rare exceptions buy a house next door to me. A young Army vet who is 22 or 23 and works in an auto electric shop without AC and goes to tech school at night. He is unmarried but has a girl friend who is helping him tend a garden, she doesn’t live with him. He is as good a neighbor as I could have ever hoped for.
Where did you get this?
There are tens of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan that would probably kick your ass up around your ears for that comment.
All the young people I know are all hard working if they can find jobs....
I sincerely beg to differ! But then maybe mine ARE some of those exceptions...
When my son was a wrtstler, his coach offered the team a way to earn thier way to wrestling camp...By working in his fields along with the Latinos.
Three, of seven, including my son, were offered to return to work after camp.
The big guy told my son that he had good news and bad news.
The good news was that the Latinos liked him, the bad news was that he could work the rest of the summer.
His brother was recruited to come back to Alaska for the summer. Originally, this one hitched a ride up there with a trucker that was doing moving and landed a good job because he know HOW to work. Daughter has 6 kids and never had a mortgage-they built their own home and now do remodeling. My grandkids go to work with parents when at all possible and they know how to work too.
More than a few of those “little spoiled bastards” are slogging up mountains in Afghanistan right now.