Posted on 05/06/2015 4:10:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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“On a personal basis, the first time I ever met anyone in our country working was when I was about 12 years old, as I recall,” she said. “Through my church, I was recruited, along with some other girls in Sunday school, to serve as babysitters on Saturday for the small children so the older children could join their parents in the fields. Because believe it or not, when I was growing up in the Chicago area, it was farm fields as far as the eye could see. The migrants, immigrant laborers would come up, up through the Midwest, up to Chicago, up to Michigan. We were asked to try to help out.”
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“Preposterous to say first time she met anyone working in our country was when she was 12 years old, in her first sentence.”
What does that mean? She went to school. There were teachers, building engineers and maintenance workers, etc. - all working. She undoubtedly had mail delivered to her home, and trash pick up, and went to stores with her parents - etc. Unless all these jobs were being done by robots, then her comment is ridiculous. Who writes this stuff?
Alcohol and Delusional, both PRN.
:: many of the western burbs still had some large active farms ::
Still do today.
I spent 10 years in “far” west Tinley Park (the current hometown of Jeremiah Wright, I might add) and my home was surrounded by agriculture.
Funny thing is that the fields out there have been “grain” fields (corn, soy-beans, winter wheat and oats) for as long as anyone can recall.
Grain fields don’t need “migrant workers” since, what?, before WWII?
She could see O’Hare from her house which is about as close to the country as she got.
It’s booze.
She is pretty much self embalmed at this point.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943505/replies?c=19
Sally Jenkins, WAPO article Dec 9, 2007, “Growing Up Rodham”: a day in 1961 when Don Jones blew into town, in a red Chevy Impala convertible. The new youth minister at the First United Methodist Church wore white
bucks and played the guitar. Jones arranged discussions with disadvantaged children in Chicago and took his youth group to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak at Orchestra Hall on a Sunday night in 1962. King’s address was “Sleeping Through the Revolution,” and in his vibrato he decried suburbanites who passed the poor by. Jones introduced the children to King personally, and Hillary was so affected that she volunteered to babysit for the children of migrant workers during harvest.
It's EAST OF O'Hare, inside I-294! It's a bedroom community, with it's own commuter train stop on the Northwestern.
Only a Chicago Democrat would be stupid enough to believe her.
Yep, Lisle, Naperville, Wheaton, all farm towns.. On another note, most of those farms were, as you say, corn and soybeans - and were farmed with machinery. There were likely a fair amount of truck farms that might have used migrant workers, but I don't think that kind of farming was the mainstay of Illinois farming, even during that period.
Sadly, all of the above are now the tenets of the American people as a whole with a few million dissenters.
That doesn’t make sense either.
So, Hillary decided migrant workers in the field worked the hardest, than anybody else she saw. She doesn’t go out much, is all I have to say.
As hard a life as those migrant workers had, yet droves of them came/come here willingly. Think about that, Hillary!
The universal amnesty will only attract those who don’t want to work, or work as hard, but politicians like Hillary don’t care as long as they can keep the progressive agenda in power.
Millions of younger Americans and some of the uninformed adults too would believe all that, like the MA people do of their Senator "Pocahontas" Warren.
Few indeed are more stupid. Bernard Epton, a traditional liberal, in 1983 told Chicagoans they should vote for him "before it's too late".
I have relatives who live in the Crystal Lake/Dundee/Huntley area and there were definitely farms there several decades ago. It’s being developed it as fast as they can and there are no trees as far as the eye can see.
“As I recall...”
Man oh man for Hil that is a sure sign she is lying. I though she grew up in Park Ridge. Here is the scoop on Park ridge (other than being very affluent) “As its name suggests, Park Ridge lies on a ridge. The soil is abundant with clay deposits, which made it a brick-making center for the developing city of Chicago. “....
She means MEXICANS. First time she ever saw MEXICANS working in our country. Migrant workers, etc etc.
“On a personal basis, the first time I ever met anyone in our country working was when I was about 12 years old...”
How the hell do you get to be 12 and not visit a grocery store or gas station with your one or both of your parents?
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