Name:   Buteye - Subject:   One Question Date:   11/7/2016 12:17:16 PM

What you describe is a meager attempt by the government to justify bringing in laborers to do farm work that our own workers will not do. I agree that farm labor is not a desirable way to earn income. However, being a teenager in the 1950's, I picked cotton in a 9ft picksack and was paid $3.00 per hundred pounds picked. If you were a reasonably good picker you could pick about 200lbs a day in temperatures averaging 90 to 100 degrees. The cotton fields were picked by both blacks and whites working alongside each other during the months of August and September. This was before the government(unlike today) was paying more in the way of benefits to stay at home and do nothing rather than work for a pay check.

No, I don't say we should go back to the "olden" days, but I do say our government has created the "mess" we are in today. There were what we call "commodities" being provided to those in need which for the most part consisted of powdered milk and cheese. I don't recall people starving because the adult members of the family doing whatever was necessary to provide for their families. Yes, those were the days when many families raised their own cows, hogs, and chickens and grew gardens to supplement their needs for food. Families used to have "smoke" houses where they would cure their "own" meat and store it during the winter months. The government is obsessed to giving out cell phones and other benefits that one should have to work for. When you take away the need and desire to work and have produced a society that has failed to produce jobs for its citizens, you have eactly what we have today, 95 million able bodied people who are not in the work force. As a good example, Hillary says everyone should have a "free" college education, thus taking away any desire and need to work for what you want. Let's be "honest", nothing is free. We the taxpayers can't "support" the entire world. Hillary complains so much about the one percenter, why doesn't she and Bill put their money where their "mouth" is?