[MD] Intellectual activity

[aesuszynski]

Just a few thoughts to add...

When I was a kid I lived in Iowa for a short time. I remember, as a city 
girl, being astonished that all the kids in this little town looked forward 
to the summer activity of  detasseling the corn. That is how they got their 
spending money and everyone did it, pretty much.

Kids also used to mow lawns and do other odd jobs. which were beneath the 
adults in the community. Not beneath, but these things were an inconvenience 
and it was great to give the kid down the block some money to do the work, 
and he was delighted to have the spending cash. Maybe he was saving for a 
bike. (what a concept) So maybe a "value" in those days was to teach the 
"value" of hard work and self sacrifice.

Not today. Kids don't work for their money, they get an allowance. They have 
to entertained because they don't have anything useful to do.

It has only been in the last few years that I've heard the phrase "doing the 
work that Americans won't do" There was a time when there wasn't any kind of 
work that Americans wouldn't do. That was how you got ahead if you didn't 
have the background which would catapult you into some cush job..

The esteemed El Presidente Vincente Fox said that "my people are doing the 
work that even the negroes won't do" .Charming!   Apparently he is happy to 
export his people, rather than educate them. A real visionary!

And BTW, illegals are not working for 39 cents an hour (I know no one said 
that, but...). In San Diego county,  to hire a guy from the corner hang-out 
costs $100 a day. Not too shabby, I say.

Alice