Illegal immigration and the conservative brand

[Mike D]

That's pretty amazing for sure .... 7-12's with zero days off... For 20 years. I wouldn't do it.

Ditto. I've worked many weeks in a row on 7-12s and it will burn you out. A man has to have time for a personal life.

[SaltwaterSlick]

WOW, just read thru this whole thread and there is a great discussion going on right here. I myself am a staunch conservative socially and financially. I am also a patriot, and it sickens me to see what our beloved country is becoming and 100% from our own hands... hands that are largely apathetic and just don't or won't do anything to steer a corrective path. I am a man of faith as well and I pray daily for wisdom and guidance from God in Heaven... I'm not hearing much from Him lately that is very good news. Since the fall of man, we are predisposed to sin and evil and though our country was founded on Christian principles, we seem to have turned our backs on the very God that gives us our existence. A day of reckoning is coming. I firmly believe we have the ability to move that day forward or out by what we do while we are here as stewards of all we have. I'm afraid that pride and greed are two sins that may prevent us from achieving success in pushing this day farther into the future. I sincerely pray that I am wrong, but I see daily that alas, I am likely right... Never would anyone before our time have thought that a Socialist would be even able to run for POTUS, much less be an actual contender. Never would anyone before us believe that a leading candidate for this nation's highest office would get on national television ans spew childish cursing rants like some adolescent would when he didn't get his way... It is indeed a sad day for America.

I am unashamedly in support of Ted Cruz, not because I think he is a perfect candidate, but because he is a Christian principled man that honestly seeks to do the right thing and that he does his best to do what he has promised to do. He has warts and issues just like the rest of us, but he has shown me personally that when elected he will set about doing what he said he would do. This is what I see from him and though I cast my ballot in his favor when he ran for the Senate, I did not vote FOR him. I merely chose him as the lesser of two evils and refused to vote for his opponent. I have since come to believe he is for real and capable of surrounding himself with good people and would make us a better POTUS than anyone else who is running.

Again, I have enjoyed reading through this thread. It's a good 'un.

[RMW]

Twenty-five years ago I was paying $8 an hour to run a grain scoop and push broom cleaning out fertilizer barges and storage bins. I had lots of applicants for the jobs, but I never had a single gringo last more than eight hours before quitting... The Mexican workers, all of which had green cards, and SS cards got the same pay....

I never had a Mexican tell me that the work was too hard for the pay...


You want to shut this down... Okay

Cut off all government assistance to anyone without either citizenship or valid visa, no school, no healthcare beyond emergency care, no school, no food, and no job...

Make it a $10K fine per person for anyone to knowingly employ anyone not a US citizen or holder of a valid work visa.

Make it a mandatory 10 years in Federal lockup to anyone who knowingly employs illegals a second time..

Deport illegals when they're picked up, no exceptions

This right here is the only way to make it work! Everybody would be on the same playing field.

[fox1]

And I don't buy it.

Buy it or not I don't care, like I said when on my tools it was about 8 months a year. My only time off would be driving or flying between jobs. I would take off time at the end of the year. Right now both of my kids are on a roll, they have had a few days off but not many.
There is an entire industry built around 7-12s and it pays a lot of mint for the folks who want it, very few do.