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Wiz in Wis
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« on: April 12, 2008, 03:43:11 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeV2KzGGC38

Responding to Obama's comments about jobless people in small town PA, Clinton recently said that he grandfather, who went to work in a factory at age 11, working 6 day weeks and very long hours, had "good work."

Why do some Democrats say this kind of nonsense? These are not good jobs. Good jobs don't make you work 6 days a week for very long hours doing the same mindless repetition for decades. It's unfortunate when people haven't had a good enough education to do anything but work in a factory. Instead of glorifying this mindless, degrading work, we should be trying to give people a good education so that they have skills more valuable than those requisite to work in a factory.

More Americans should be graduating highschool, more Americans should be attending college. We should be proud that factories are leaving our country. It indicates that workers in the U.S. demand higher salaries than factories are willing to pay. The problem is that these people were left behind by the education system, and that should be the issue that we're addressing, not glorifying 6 day a week child labor.

So.  At least she didn't call us all White Trash.  Honestly, I think there are plenty here who would rather have those days back.

The only one calling anyone else white trash is you.
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