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So the past few days I've been cutting and loading tobacco. Let me tell you about cutting tobacco. You cut the plant at the bottom, spear it on a stick, and you spear 6 plants per stick. It is a lot of bending down, cutting with an axe, and spearing while trying to keep these damn sticks in the ground. As best as I try I can only muster out around 50 an hour. The mexicans working though? Can do about 100 an hour or 600 tobacco plants. While on break I talk to them in Spanglish mostly and these poor guys have to pay $750 to get a work visa, the house the farmers had them up in wasn't to bad I guess, but they will work in Kentucy, NC, SC doing tobacco, then do oranges in flordia, with one 3 1/2 ft tall basket only getting them 75 cents. These people aren't taking our jobs, these people work incredibly hard doing incredibly hard crazy **** and deserve far more respect than anyone would ever give them. They are incredibly friendly, offer me their crazy food all the time just to see what I think of it and are always ok for a good laugh.
Republicans and democrats a like how could you not want someone to be here that embodies the American dream more than most of you ever will?
We don't have that much tobacco to pick in Chicago. Congress should pass the Guest Worker Program as proposed by George Bush. I don't oppose Mexicans coming into the United States legally. I don't know of anyone who does. Maybe we should just say, "Come one, come all." But until we do (which, of course, we never will), they need to obey the laws like everyone else.
So the past few days I've been cutting and loading tobacco. Let me tell you about cutting tobacco. You cut the plant at the bottom, spear it on a stick, and you spear 6 plants per stick. It is a lot of bending down, cutting with an axe, and spearing while trying to keep these damn sticks in the ground. As best as I try I can only muster out around 50 an hour. The mexicans working though? Can do about 100 an hour or 600 tobacco plants. While on break I talk to them in Spanglish mostly and these poor guys have to pay $750 to get a work visa, the house the farmers had them up in wasn't to bad I guess, but they will work in Kentucy, NC, SC doing tobacco, then do oranges in flordia, with one 3 1/2 ft tall basket only getting them 75 cents. These people aren't taking our jobs, these people work incredibly hard doing incredibly hard crazy **** and deserve far more respect than anyone would ever give them. They are incredibly friendly, offer me their crazy food all the time just to see what I think of it and are always ok for a good laugh.
Republicans and democrats a like how could you not want someone to be here that embodies the American dream more than most of you ever will?
It was funny I asked the one, "Arizona loco, si?" to which he replied "Si no good no good.". Then I said jokingly "I know who else is going to pick all their crops?" and then he said "I know it make no sense!"
Well that's a very mealy mouthed way of saying "I'm ok with criminals if they pick my 'bacco for $2.00 an hour".
Well that's a very mealy mouthed way of saying "I'm ok with criminals if they pick my 'bacco for $2.00 an hour".
Considering they average 100 sticks an hour at 12 cents a stick that's $2 an hour?
No dude you don't understand. Mexicans are MACHINES at this stuff. They do it without breaking a sweat, with no gloves, wearing long sleeve button up shirts. TOTAL MACHINES. I have massive respect for them, how polite they are, how humble they are, and they are very entertained by my broken Spanish. But yeah I quit doing it, it was to much on me. lol
It's called a hyperbole. Look up the definition some time.
They are hard workers. They are great people.
But they are illegal and should be deported. I'm not being a dick. I'm saying it how it is.
They should be deported because they paid $750 for a work visa and are doing someone no one else will do?
The first thing I'd do is ask why I was unable to perform my job with even half the efficiency of another group of people.
Every tobacco worker is an illegal immigrant?
Weren't you doing that exact job until you quit?
It's called you were wrong and expect that someone would actually work for $2 an hour.
Also rivrrat, the guys I worked with are built for this kind of stuff, I obviously am not. It is hard to explain to someone that has no idea wtf they are talking about, but being short helps when cutting tobacco. Also no there really are not to many citizens that would do this for 12 hours a day for 2 months straight no there aren't and if you find one let me know.
There is a lot of work I would do that most people would probably think was beneath them. Most people think any kind of farm work is beneath them.
Ever wake up every morning and pick up about 120 dead chickens with a bunch of buckets and throw them in a giant hole in the ground? Probably not.
You want to know why I couldn't do it as good as them? It isn't something you exactly can get used to after not doing stuff like this for a few years, they live and breath farms. I needed money thought I would give it a shot, but couldn't make it up to par it's that simple.
Also they embody the American dream because they are hard working, humble, modest people that don't want a pat on the back for every little thing they do, they just want to make their money.
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