[Kenny Bunk]

ZIP, this issue is driving me nuts because I have 3 children in their 20's. Thank God, they are all gainfully, adventurously, and fulfillingly employed. However, this appears to be less and less some sort of norm.

The town is filled with many of their 20-30 contemporaries, whom I know and whose parents I know, who are doing ... well ... nothing. No Job. No School Finishing. No Trade. No Military. No nothing but wind-numbing enslavement to tattoo and piercing and drug and party culture. They seem permanently stuck in Junior High and in court for stupid and varied drug misdemeanors. Oddly enough, their parents support it and them with vast sums of money, cars, clothes, and of course shelter. I am talking about probaly 150 people in a town of 3,000. That's a lot!
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This is small town Maine, not LA, yet these kids are in some sort of MTV dreamland. Local businesses are hiring Mexicans like mad because the locals "will not take this kind of work."

Well, what work will they take, and when? There's nothing wrong with Mexicans. They work hard. But they are not our children who need to work here, too. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot wrong with a lot of them.

[texastoo]

I find it strange that you have the only kids out of 150 that work.

I visited a small town of about 5000 in the north west this past Christmas. Believe it or not, but I saw white kids as waitresses, employeees of McDonalds, cooks, throwing paper on paper routes, shoveling snow, working in retail stores as salespersons, grocery store clerks, cashiers and babysitting. As a matter of fact, I didn't see a Mexican there.

So maybe it depends of whether or not your area has been invaded by illegals.