On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:48:56 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 05 Nov 2004 16:35:34 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:


Gould,
Do you have something against unskilled Mexicans who are willing to work for
minimum wage?

No.

I have a problem with guys who scream for
a society with overwhelming enforcement of most laws, but who personally profit
by entering into illegal employment contracts
with people so incredibly poor that *anything*, even $2-3/hour, is better than
stavation.


Just a quickie here - I've been watching the thread and have to jump
in.

Back when I had a working stable on the property, I couldn't find high
school kids for $11.00 an hour to muck out the stalls, do the hay,
feed and exercise the animals, etc. Just farm labor four days a week
and two hours on weekends.

I went to the local labor emporium and got some Brazilians who did it
for $7.00/hr. I didn't even ask - I just said to the guy at the
employment desk I needed four people, explained what I wanted and
there they were.

Now, when I have to get the hay off the field or some other task like
stacking wood for the winter, I just make the call and presto, more
people to help at the state minimum which I believe now is $7.25.

I can't pay them more if I wanted!!!

Tom, I lived in Woodbridge, CT for a couple of years while in high
school and used to muck stalls and feed horses after school at a race
horse stable in Orange.

So, how the hell do the Brazilians get 7 bucks an hour !!!!?????

That's was the State of CT job assigner said. That's what I paid 'em.

(I think I got a buck twenty-five)

HAH!! :)

When I was in high school, I had a job on Saturday's working for a
local TV store. $1.00 a day and all the electronics theory I could
eat. Oh, and he threw in a sandwich for lunch. :) During the
summers, I worked for a Captain who had a 50 foot Bertram as his mate
and kept the job at the TV store on Friday and Saturday. My Senior
year in high school was an interesting one as I eventually ran the TV
shop on Friday/Saturday and was allowed to take the Bertram out for a
run every once in a while all by my onsies.

(also where I learned how much I dislike horses)

Well, this whole thing started when the kids wanted horses. I had the
room and eventually I purchased a cedar log post 'n beam in Bolton,
had it transported here - it was eventually destined to garage my
antique car, truck and bass boat once the horses left. That expanded
into a small business for the girls when they were in high school as
they boarded some horses for friends and the like. When college came
along, I slowly dispersed the horses until there were no more horses.

That's where I learned to dislike horse owners. I still have one who
owes me $1,600.

PS: The barn is now a garage/wood shop.

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653