60 Minutes - Migrant Workers

[Gil Dobie]

They are talking about 12-13 year olds working 10 hours a day in the fields. I worked side-by-side with migrant workers in sugarbeet fields, as did my friends. It was one of the only jobs for Jr-high & High School kids in the summer in rural North Dakota. If you could keep up with the migrant workers, you were considered a good worker. We were paid for what we did, not by the hour. We provided free housing for the workers for the summer, and they had a big party at the end of the season. They would buy a sheep to roast, and I would trap racoons for them, and it would be a feast. Interesting how 60 minutes is trying to make it look bad to work at that age.

[CID1990]

I pulled tobacco from about age 13 until I finished high school. I could generally earn about $25 bucks (plus lunch) in a day, and in the early 1980s that was pretty good money for a 14-15 year old kid. It was back breaking labor, but I am a firm believer that the hard labor I did as a teenager and later in the summers during college was good for me. After tobacco, military training was a breeze.

I'd recommend working in the fields for any kid.

[Skjellyfetti]

Pretty amazing what those kids go through.

No one is probably interested because it humanizes illegal immigrants... but, this is a great documentary about kids in the 12-14 age traveling on their own from Central America to the US looking for work. Amazing.


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[citdog]

Pretty amazing what those kids go through.

No one is probably interested because it humanizes illegal immigrants... but, this is a great documentary about kids in the 12-14 age traveling on their own from Central America to the US looking for work. Amazing.


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we should shoot them at the border and use their rotting bodies to fertilize the fields.

[AZGrizFan]

Both my dad and my father in law were out of school, on their own, hustling manual labor jobs by the age of 12.

No one's made a movie about them....

[citdog]

Both my dad and my father in law were out of school, on their own, hustling manual labor jobs by the age of 12.

No one's made a movie about them....

no shit. i stated working on the shrimp boats when I was 11. I was bangin' chicks at 12.

[93henfan]

Both my dad and my father in law were out of school, on their own, hustling manual labor jobs by the age of 12.

No one's made a movie about them....

no shit. i stated working on the shrimp boats when I was 11. I was bangin' chicks at 12.

I did those two things at 10 and 11 respectively and pretty much everything else everyone mentioned a year or two earlier as well.

Also, my Aunt Karen was the SEAL who killed Bin Laden. Hooyah.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

Pretty amazing what those kids go through.

No one is probably interested because it humanizes illegal immigrants... but, this is a great documentary about kids in the 12-14 age traveling on their own from Central America to the US looking for work. Amazing.


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we should shoot them at the border and use their rotting bodies to fertilize the fields.

Agreed

[CID1990]

Pretty amazing what those kids go through.

No one is probably interested because it humanizes illegal immigrants... but, this is a great documentary about kids in the 12-14 age traveling on their own from Central America to the US looking for work. Amazing.


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Oh boo hoo.

SK, seriously, you're just a dumb kid yourself.

Illegal immigrant labor is the price of our success. That being said, we do not owe anything to those banana republics that treat their own citizens like chattel. A sad story to be sure, but when you suggest that people lack interest in whiny documentaries like this because it humanizes the poor little waifs, you have just proven that you have more interest is just being a little country club sh!t who's mad at Daddy than you do in suggesting constructive solutions.

[houndawg]

Pretty amazing what those kids go through.

No one is probably interested because it humanizes illegal immigrants... but, this is a great documentary about kids in the 12-14 age traveling on their own from Central America to the US looking for work. Amazing.


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Oh boo hoo.

SK, seriously, you're just a dumb kid yourself.

Illegal immigrant labor is the price of our success. That being said, we do not owe anything to those banana republics that treat their own citizens like chattel. A sad story to be sure, but when you suggest that people lack interest in whiny documentaries like this because it humanizes the poor little waifs, you have just proven that you have more interest is just being a little country club sh!t who's mad at Daddy than you do in suggesting constructive solutions.

[houndawg]

Both my dad and my father were out of school, on their own, hustling manual labor jobs by the age of 12.

No one's made a movie about them....

Yo mama got some splainin to do....

[Gil Dobie]

Pretty amazing what those kids go through.

No one is probably interested because it humanizes illegal immigrants... but, this is a great documentary about kids in the 12-14 age traveling on their own from Central America to the US looking for work. Amazing.

The story was about migrant workers, not illegal immigrants. Some of us weren't born with a silver spoon, we saw people earn their wages from a young age. We did have a pot to piss in, but that was when the weather was bad and getting to the outhouse in 20 below weather was the other option.

[kalm]

no shit. i stated working on the shrimp boats when I was 11. I was bangin' chicks at 12.

I did those two things at 10 and 11 respectively and pretty much everything else everyone mentioned a year or two earlier as well.

Also, my Aunt Karen was the SEAL who killed Bin Laden. Hooyah.

[SDHornet]

What the documentary didn’t show were the thousands of unemployed people lined up around the block just hoping to land one of these ag jobs.

[travelinman67]

...Interesting how 60 minutes is trying to make it look bad to work at that age.

It's entertaining to watch silver-spooned limousine liberals portray early age (11 and up) work as something to ashamed of.

Like many others here, I began working for wage at 12, first with a suburban paper route, getting up at 4a EVERY DAY, rain or shine, sick or healthy, and GETTING THE JOB DONE regardless of the conditions: No excuses. After school, I hustled landscaping jobs from locals, towing the mower around with my bicycle. In the evenings, I went back out to collect for the newspaper route. By 15, I had my first hourly job. By 15 1/2, I purchased my first car (a '68 Camaro, had some body damage, but it was what I could afford).
In retrospect, I'm grateful I worked when I was young. Those years, more than any other factor, taught me about work ethic.
Want to see a documentary about "what's wrong" with America? Point the camera at the whiny liberals who'd rather bitch about getting work done than do it.

[YoUDeeMan]

It's entertaining to watch silver-spooned limousine liberals portray early age (11 and up) work as something to ashamed of.

Like many others here, I began working for wage at 12, first with a suburban paper route, getting up at 4a EVERY DAY, rain or shine, sick or healthy, and GETTING THE JOB DONE regardless of the conditions: No excuses. After school, I hustled landscaping jobs from locals, towing the mower around with my bicycle. In the evenings, I went back out to collect for the newspaper route. By 15, I had my first hourly job. By 15 1/2, I purchased my first car (a '68 Camaro, had some body damage, but it was what I could afford).
In retrospect, I'm grateful I worked when I was young. Those years, more than any other factor, taught me about work ethic.
Want to see a documentary about "what's wrong" with America? Point the camera at the whiny liberals who'd rather bitch about getting work done than do it.

Who is writing this stuff for you?

There's no way you're writing it yourself with the crippling effects on your psyche from having to drive around in a car that didn't look new. You might even have had to go to school in slightly worn clothes with...gasp...a stain or a small patch covering up a hole.

Today's masses are going to be much sharper than you...they'll never have to endure the shame of looking like a person from a hard working family. Rules now limit clothing donations so that they have to look almost new. No holes to be patched...because you know unemployed people don't have time to look away from Jerry Springer in order to learn how to mend a shirt. Any patches or irregular sew jobs would cause embarrassment and scream, "Hey, I'm not rich...maybe not even middle class!" Imagine the horror.

Anyway, sorry for outing you as one who is a shining example of the damage that can occur when one doesn't have the newest and greatest things. Hard work and good values leave scars that don't heal.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

AMen Cluck!

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

They are talking about 12-13 year olds working 10 hours a day in the fields. I worked side-by-side with migrant workers in sugarbeet fields, as did my friends. It was one of the only jobs for Jr-high & High School kids in the summer in rural North Dakota. If you could keep up with the migrant workers, you were considered a good worker. We were paid for what we did, not by the hour. We provided free housing for the workers for the summer, and they had a big party at the end of the season. They would buy a sheep to roast, and I would trap racoons for them, and it would be a feast. Interesting how 60 minutes is trying to make it look bad to work at that age.

Didn't see it but I have the exact same experience. My grandparents had farms and one set drove the workers around in a school bus from location to location. They were all great workers, thankful to be working, and as you say were grateful and hed a hell of a party when the time was right.

There are a lot of sickening sacks of shit out there today that could learn a shitload about life if they were placed in a time machine and put in the spot where they needed to work to survive.

[Appaholic]

It's entertaining to watch silver-spooned limousine liberals portray early age (11 and up) work as something to ashamed of.

Like many others here, I began working for wage at 12, first with a suburban paper route, getting up at 4a EVERY DAY, rain or shine, sick or healthy, and GETTING THE JOB DONE regardless of the conditions: No excuses. After school, I hustled landscaping jobs from locals, towing the mower around with my bicycle. In the evenings, I went back out to collect for the newspaper route. By 15, I had my first hourly job. By 15 1/2, I purchased my first car (a '68 Camaro, had some body damage, but it was what I could afford).
In retrospect, I'm grateful I worked when I was young. Those years, more than any other factor, taught me about work ethic.
Want to see a documentary about "what's wrong" with America? Point the camera at the whiny liberals who'd rather bitch about getting work done than do it.

Who is writing this stuff for you?

There's no way you're writing it yourself with the crippling effects on your psyche from having to drive around in a car that didn't look new. You might even have had to go to school in slightly worn clothes with...gasp...a stain or a small patch covering up a hole.

Today's masses are going to be much sharper than you...they'll never have to endure the shame of looking like a person from a hard working family. Rules now limit clothing donations so that they have to look almost new. No holes to be patched...because you know unemployed people don't have time to look away from Jerry Springer in order to learn how to mend a shirt. Any patches or irregular sew jobs would cause embarrassment and scream, "Hey, I'm not rich...maybe not even middle class!" Imagine the horror.

Anyway, sorry for outing you as one who is a shining example of the damage that can occur when one doesn't have the newest and greatest things. Hard work and good values leave scars that don't heal.

Agree. Wonder if liberal elites are as concerned about the effects of nightshift hours on the family as well as health of factory workers? Not to mention all those hours of overtime at 1.5x-2x time their hourly wage? Only if they're not union jobs I would imagine....

[travelinman67]

Who is writing this stuff for you?

There's no way you're writing it yourself with the crippling effects on your psyche from having to drive around in a car that didn't look new. You might even have had to go to school in slightly worn clothes with...gasp...a stain or a small patch covering up a hole.

Today's masses are going to be much sharper than you...they'll never have to endure the shame of looking like a person from a hard working family. Rules now limit clothing donations so that they have to look almost new. No holes to be patched...because you know unemployed people don't have time to look away from Jerry Springer in order to learn how to mend a shirt. Any patches or irregular sew jobs would cause embarrassment and scream, "Hey, I'm not rich...maybe not even middle class!" Imagine the horror.

Anyway, sorry for outing you as one who is a shining example of the damage that can occur when one doesn't have the newest and greatest things. Hard work and good values leave scars that don't heal.

I'd seek therapy...

...but I'd rather put the money in savings.

[houndawg]

...Interesting how 60 minutes is trying to make it look bad to work at that age.

It's entertaining to watch silver-spooned limousine liberals portray early age (11 and up) work as something to ashamed of.

Like many others here, I began working for wage at 12, first with a suburban paper route, getting up at 4a EVERY DAY, rain or shine, sick or healthy, and GETTING THE JOB DONE regardless of the conditions: No excuses. After school, I hustled landscaping jobs from locals, towing the mower around with my bicycle. In the evenings, I went back out to collect for the newspaper route. By 15, I had my first hourly job. By 15 1/2, I purchased my first car (a '68 Camaro, had some body damage, but it was what I could afford).
In retrospect, I'm grateful I worked when I was young. Those years, more than any other factor, taught me about work ethic.
Want to see a documentary about "what's wrong" with America? Point the camera at the whiny liberals who'd rather bitch about getting work done than do it.

....blah blah......and the rest of the kids were grateful they had friends who didn't run away when they came around..

[kalm]

...Interesting how 60 minutes is trying to make it look bad to work at that age.

It's entertaining to watch silver-spooned limousine liberals portray early age (11 and up) work as something to ashamed of.

Like many others here, I began working for wage at 12, first with a suburban paper route, getting up at 4a EVERY DAY, rain or shine, sick or healthy, and GETTING THE JOB DONE regardless of the conditions: No excuses. After school, I hustled landscaping jobs from locals, towing the mower around with my bicycle. In the evenings, I went back out to collect for the newspaper route. By 15, I had my first hourly job. By 15 1/2, I purchased my first car (a '68 Camaro, had some body damage, but it was what I could afford).
In retrospect, I'm grateful I worked when I was young. Those years, more than any other factor, taught me about work ethic.
Want to see a documentary about "what's wrong" with America? Point the camera at the whiny liberals who'd rather bitch about getting work done than do it.

Wealth envy directed at hard working limousine liberals.

[travelinman67]

Wealth envy directed at hard working limousine liberals.

Did you just write, "...hard working limousine liberals..."?????

[YoUDeeMan]

I'd seek therapy...

...but I'd rather put the money in savings.

SAVINGS??

Now you're just being silly. No need for savings...it's almost anti-American of you.

Spend...and don't worry. I hear there are people that can just tax other people's money to get you more. Shelter, food, heathcare...it'll all be taken care of by others.

What is it with old school people...they just can't keep up with the latest and greatest trends.

[Gil Dobie]

Wealth envy directed at hard working limousine liberals.

Don't know who got pulled out of the ditch more, the richest limousine liberal in town or the Catholic Priest. I don't think either ever got a DWI, but both tried to drink away their guilt.