You said it all!
Silas quad farmer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] immigrants
When I was a teenager, I and a group of neighborhood buddies used to hang
out at the general store. It was one of those pot-belly stove, sell
everything, mom and pop general stores straight out of Mayberry. We hung
around waiting for local farmers who needed help with hay, tobacco, etc.
We had no money and there were no fast food joints or Walmarts to provide
jobs for teenagers. The farmers had no problem finding a young, strong,
ready and willing work force.
Today that store doesn't exist, teenagers seem to have better things to
do, and farmers struggle to find workers. Their only option is to hire
Mexicans. I teach at the local high school. Not ten percent of the boys
have done any kind of farmwork, nor would they do it given the chance. It
is "too hard." My how times have changed (and attitudes)!
As some have stated, the immigrants are simply doing the work that has
somehow become "beneath" native Americans. We are a spoiled society.
Larry Willis
