[SpamCop-Social] Re: Tenn. judge to moms: Learn English or lose kids

[J. Weaver Jr.]

Frog Prince wrote:

> Based on my personal observations of the job market in the Appalachians  ...
> unlikely as many native English speaking workers have to work several jobs
> to stay afloat.  BTW staying afloat equates to keeping your nose barely
> above water and fearing the sound the motor boat of additional lay offs.

I spent a couple hours talking to one of the contractors that just redid 
my kitchen countertops (replacing 30-year-old Formica with shiny _new_ 
Formica). _His_ observation, commenting on all the new home construction 
and remodelling going on in this area (metro DC) was that anyone who 
didn't have a job (even as a day laborer) didn't _want_ a job.

<shrug> Just his opinion, but he and his son were spending the last days 
of three straight work weeks away their home in the Carolinas. They 
_wanted_ to work, and they were. (And they did good work, too.) -JW