... if you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." -Bush
What the hell was he talking about?
2007-04-20 17:21:09 · 6 answers · asked by maggielynn 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The Babbler in Chief was prattling on about manual labor, the kinds of minimum-wage, zero perk jobs he's never himself *done* a day in his life. Sweeping floors, cleaning toilets, bagging groceries, just generally being stuck in a dead-end position at Wal-Mart or something where you're at the bottom of the food chain and can be rejected like so much trash at any time.
Really. Search up the book, the title is _Nickeled and Dimed_ .It tells you the truth: folks, single, individual folks, *CANNOT* get by on labor like that. It doesn't allow people to both pay their rent and have groceries in the same month, never mind actually afford such "indulgences" as clothing, hygiene products or health care.
And that is why his babbling was so hard to understand. He didn't *know* what he was talking about because he's the pampered *son* of a Big Oil family down in Texas.
*I do*. I've been stuck with this kind of dead-end, unsustainable labor all my life in spite of busting my tail for years (including throwing my childhood away mind you) to get the education and to *be* the first in my family to get a collegiate bachelor's degree. This is what happens when you are born in a poor family, where the father declared bankruptcy shortly before your birth: People decide to KEEP YOU POOR. This is doubly true if you have the misfortune of having even the *slightest* bit of a Psychiatric Issue--you get lumped in with the thugs, criminals and druggies and you get sentenced to being Plantation Labor, because your HMOs refuse to pay *one red cent* of your costs for needed medications or counseling for psychiatric issues of *any kind*.
And the sad part of it is: It's been like this since Reagan. People like Bush are out to make sure *every* person like *us* is stuck with a job like *that*. Count on it. Big Oil *insists* that America be a ruin for ordinary, non-CEO citizens like us....check out how much of a mess New Orleans still is, over a year and a half after Katrina.
*That* is their vision for our future, count on it. They want to make us beg for the priviliege of "plucking chickens" just so we can *barely* scrape by, having to choose between paying all of our rent, or for all of our food any given month.
Sorry to be ranty, but that is the God's truth. -_- Take care and stay safe.
2007-04-20 17:42:32 · answer #1 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know plenty of people who would love to get off welfare and pluck chickens. But I dont think the chicken factory wants to move to a reasonable distance from the bus route. And most 'country' people I know of are afraid of the projects. Bush and Cheney included.
2007-04-21 00:30:32 · answer #2 · answered by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I got this correct, but I think he means that less and less Americans wish to do menial jobs.
2007-04-21 00:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by Dowland 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess he had chicken for dinner.
Seriously? It's a lame excuse to let more illegals into our country.
2007-04-21 00:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Menial labor.
2007-04-21 00:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by santan_cat 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that the machines are doing the jobs ?????
2007-04-21 00:35:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋