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On 3/24/13 11:36 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:09:31 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
says...

The hardest working people I see on residential construction sites
around here are Latinos.

Primarily because they're the *only* working people on the sites.

Salmonbait

Really? No one else on any construction site works other than Latinos?

They are the ones who are not updating their twitter feed and texting
with their girl friends all day. Anglo kids really just do not want to
do this work and it is reflected in their productivity.
When we did our addition I wanted to avoid any drywall so it is
concrete block and stucco on both sides. I had a Mexican guy who
finished the inside walls so smooth you would really believe it was
skim coated drywall.
After the crash, when most of the Mexicans went home, I had the
"boss" of that crew (anglo) come back and recoat a wall because I had
cut a door in it and made a window smaller.

All I can say is, it's a good thing we went with a underwater paint
scheme because the "waves" are in the stucco.

Your comments about twittering and "Anglo" kids are absurd. There are
plenty of highly qualified plasterers of all ethnic backgrounds. If you
don't have any in your area, it is because your contractors forced them
out of the job market by hiring possibly undocumented foreign workers
willing to work for much less, without benefits, in our country's dive
to the bottom.

The contractor who handles our heavy yard work and, when we have snow,
plowing, is Mexican. His crews are comprised of Mexicans and "Anglos."
They all work very hard. I'm sure most of them have girlfriends, too.

A few college-level stat courses taught by one of those ivory towered
professors might cure you of trying to draw universal truths from too
few data points.