Posted on 09/19/2011 12:45:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Absolutely. I have been there myself and know many others who have. One guy had a VP of Sales job for a tech company until he had to take nearly 3 years off to care for his wife who was dying of cancer. After she passed he had a very tough time on the job market. He managed a Mickey D’s for awhile till he got his resume going forward again. He is actually very proud of that fact.
Anybody who earns an honest living is worthy of your respect.
At least that’s what my father always taught me.
Over the past few years I have come to have a better respect the people who do menial jobs or boring repetitive jobs that go nowhere. Especially women who could dump their husband and live off welfare and actually be better off and black youths who are working their way through college.
They also sell razors. Our paper had a picture of the husband. Looked like he had been lost in the wilderness for 6 months..
I’m surprised there is little to no self-sufficiency among even the disabled and the new parents. I understand the difficulty of juggling a baby and a job, been there twice.
1. No one is gardening or hunting. Even if they don’t have the land doesn’t mean there isn’t free gleaning. Example:
http://neighborhoodfruit.com/find_fruit
Links up those with excess fruit or maps to “public” fruit and nut trees to anyone wanting to glean.
2. The new mothers can still baby sit for parents working at night, gaining some income while others get to work.
3. Some of the profiled locations talk about meat packing plants. Local law enforcement could build up the local economy by kicking out the illegal aliens. Especially the one where they estimate 2K more people than the legal 3K counted by the census.
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