General Discussion

It's been up for at least a decade, proudly proclaiming some local idiot's pride in voting for the loser.

When I was growing up, tobacco farms were huge around here. The families always worked at harvest time, the kids came to school at least two weeks late and had to catch up. I knew a bunch of kids who worked the farms for the money. They all said, in great detail, how hard it was, day in and day out, in the heat and the dust.

Back then, we didn't have a large migrant population here. In fact, I only ever went to school with one Mexican family, who had been in the US almost as long as my family. They were mill workers, like most of the rest of us.

People today just don't get how truly hard most jobs are. I see people complaining all the time about how awful it is to work in one of Amazon's warehouses, and I'm shocked. Don't they realize these are hard, physical jobs that mostly don't pay well, are often pretty dangerous and have no future growth? Get real, people.

There's no reason we can't have a working migrant worker program in this country, one that helps the farmers/ranchers and the workers. Safe conditions, decent pay, some measure of benefits. It's only right, and everybody would be happy. But no, you think deporting people won't apply to *your* workers. LOL Jokes on you, fuckers!