A Living So Tough That Americans Won't Do It? Or....

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Sheepherders from Peru and Chile come to Colorado to do work Americans apparently don't want to do.

Posted by Whatsleft at 03:03 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry

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Brown was asked, why with such high unemployment is the U.S. bringing in foreign workers?

"Americans would rather sit on their butt and get welfare than work for a living," Brown said. "Americans are not raising children to go out and be farm laborers."

What nonsense! Most Americans are more than willing to "work for a living", but for most Americans isolation without a shitter or several other modern conveniences, for three years, is not a living. I think the conditions could easily be made tolerable, such that many citizens would be willing to take the work, especially with current unemployment rates. There is no excuse for this but greed.

#1 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2009-12-26 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

More nonsense but this job pays a helluva lot more:

"Cash for Caulkers... Government Spends $2 million to Caulk 7 Homes"
www.youtube.com

Gotta love how that stimulus money is spent.

#2 | Posted by KBM at 2009-12-26 03:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

#2 | Posted by KBM

Since the gov did such a good job with this I can not wait to see how this healthcare fiasco works out.

#3 | Posted by chickenrancher at 2009-12-26 05:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's a wage that was set in 1967, Acker said.

Really? And no one will do it..... funny that.

#4 | Posted by JimmyWallback at 2009-12-26 05:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

2 | POSTED BY KBM

Funny, I googled that "story" and cannot find any hits..... you got some other than that Youtube video? I for one would like to learn more about this.

#5 | Posted by JimmyWallback at 2009-12-26 05:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

Since the gov did such a good job with this I can not wait to see how this healthcare fiasco works out.

#3 | Posted by chickenrancher

Since the State of Texass won't be running it-I'll bet on it working out better.

#6 | Posted by frankf55 at 2009-12-26 08:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

#6 | Posted by frankf55

Dream-on

#7 | Posted by chickenrancher at 2009-12-27 11:33 AM | Reply | Flag:

I don't much about agricultural work but the job conditions described in the article don't sound legal. I would wager that if you hired an American and expected him to stay out in the field for weeks without a bathroom, you'd be in trouble with the department of labor. The real issue here is that you can't hire Americans

to do the jobs as cheaply - either due to pay and/or working conditions. And this is the real issue in every single case of an illegal immigrant being hired to do a job over an American.

There are no jobs Americans won't do.

#8 | Posted by Sully at 2009-12-27 02:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

My first real job in jr. high was washing dishes in a Mexican restaurant in Orange County. There was no friction at all. Nobody gave a shit about the color of your skin, it was a job and somebody had to do it. The food was free so it helped. La Fonda Restaurant.

#9 | Posted by dxlingr at 2009-12-27 05:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

La Fonda Restaurant.

Did Kip work there, too?

#10 | Posted by goatman at 2009-12-27 05:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Nope no Kip. There was Bob, Julie, Raulynn, and Slenka. Slenka was a Norwegian from Argentina.

#11 | Posted by dxlingr at 2009-12-27 06:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

Nope no Kip.

Did you get the "Napoleon Dynamite" movie reference?

#12 | Posted by goatman at 2009-12-27 07:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

www.octhen.com

Here is a blog about the family.

Nope sorry Goat, I didn't pick that one up. Haven't seen the movie.

#13 | Posted by dxlingr at 2009-12-27 07:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

The real issue here is that you can't hire Americans

to do the jobs as cheaply - either due to pay and/or working conditions. And this is the real issue in every single case of an illegal immigrant being hired to do a job over an American.

There are no jobs Americans won't do.

Got it in one, sully.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2009-12-27 07:13 PM | Reply | Flag: