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Originally Posted by daepp
I think the social safety net is allowing too many able-bodied males (and females) not to have to go and find meaningful work; what they get from the county et al. is enough for them to survive - barely - so why go out and learn a trade?
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I think this is an important factor in this conversation. When I'm out & about during the week, I see lots of scruffy-looking people who seem to be just hanging out in the middle of the day and killing time. And they really don't look like the type of folks you might see working evenings/nights in retail or in restaurants either. If you're willing to just scrape by day-to-day, it's very easy to avoid working any sort of traditional job in this country.
A friend's daughter is one of these types. In her early 20s, she decided that the working world wasn't for her, so she found some dumbass loser to get her pregnant. Once the baby came along, she ditched the boyfriend, went on welfare, then signed up for every gov't giveaway program available. She's content to live in some schithole section 8 apt. and if she needs a little extra spending money, she'll do odd jobs for friends like house cleaning or washing cars...cash only. She has no ambition, no motivation, no plan for her or her child's future...it's only about whatever she needs to make it 'till tomorrow. Very sad indeed.
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Originally Posted by Zeke
When I'm out on a job the there are others present, it's 100% Hispanic. There's your workforce today in SoCal...
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Pretty much the same in NorCal too. There was a large construction project going up across the street from my office a few years ago and the crews would all be arriving to work around the same time I did. Seemed to be around 95% Hispanic.
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Originally Posted by ckelly78z
Lots of snowflakes out there living in their parents basements who would rather make viral YouTube videos/Facebook Memes, or be a professional gamer.
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I don't think this attitude is as prevalent in the Hispanic culture as in the white middle class. I think it's one of the main reasons that the trades (at least here in CA) are mostly worked by Hispanics, as Zeke mentioned above.