She agreed with me, after a fashion. Her response was “The Mexicans will do jobs the blacks won’t”.

At about this time, in the interest of not starting a fight, I dropped the subject.

J.

These people spend to what is them a fortune ($5k is a typical fee) to cross a border while they risk imprisonment or death in order to do a useful job at pay rates a native-born American wouldn’t even bother to sneer at – And the first thing the U.S. government does, when it finds those people willing to risk so much just to work so hard is deport them…

Heeelllooo…. Not a recipie for long-term success.

J.

Failure to ‘understand numbers’ should be viewed with astonishment, corrected through education, and if persisted with, laughed at.

J.

PS – Of course, it isn’t.

I’m mitt romney and I approved this ad.

I think it is difficult for men and women who have established themselves into work mode that served them well but sometimes being over 60 scares many of us to set new skills when needed. It turned out that my own kids were bright and loved training the old mother into new and improved skills. I taught them to surf, play tennis and coached their volley ball teams and they coached my computer skills. When the last of my kids went off to college I was on my own. That was scary.

Even when my girls went off to Berkeley, there were some trade schools just starting out and today they have trade schools on line. Many are afraid to ask the schools that are now using the television to advertise their schools. I had to rewrite my employment information and took pride in those trade schools that I attended.

I read a lot of books on marketing skills and how to develop programs for new products. I’ve never been shy about asking questions when a job from the newspapers has something close enough for me to learn. While I was doing this, I also downgraded my living expenses. I ended up in a mobile home park and I love it. The unit is large enough for books and small enough to allow me one plug for my vacuum. My closest neighbor is very concerned about my age and has insisted that I use him and his wife as an emergrency number,. They are delightful people and they bring me awesome chicken enchiladas when I have company. They do a lot of fundraisers for their church and I help them out by pricing and labeling the merchandise. They are my extended family. They both work full time and are lovely people.

For several years I worked for clothing manufacturer and was trained by a group of girls from Mexico who could out sew me faster than anyone I had ever met. I took charge of their immigration papers and drove them down to the border authorities to keep them up to date and legal. To thank me, they cooked fabulous meals. I like the Mexicans and I was raised with them in Santa Monica. They know how to work and put many of us to shame.

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