tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post4245539963570079714..comments2023-09-01T09:38:54.262-04:00Comments on Dumb Looks Still Free: Elitist Republicans and the reason they fail AmericaA Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-28716635500045061822007-10-11T15:49:00.000-04:002007-10-11T15:49:00.000-04:00Simon - That is the perfect quote! English majors...Simon - That is the perfect quote! English majors can be found flipping burgers at minimum wage as the degree is, basically, meaningless for today's work environment. Mind you, they were right next to geologists in the late 1980's during the 'oil patch' in the southwest.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Actually garbagemen (aka 'sanitation workers') make a pretty good wage, too. Ditch digging, field hands, poultry processing plant workers and similar where illegals are used? I do not see illegals lining up at coal mines, uranium mines, copper mines, iron mines, copper mines, gold mines, or in a huge array of 'sanitation worker' type jobs. Obviously there are some dirty jobs that they just don't want to do... ahhhhh... 'Dirty Jobs'!! I have seen very, very few I could even begin to call 'illegal aliens' on that show. But lots of folks making a wage at doing the cruddy work you just can't get illegals to take.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-14353192900760968122007-10-11T15:36:00.000-04:002007-10-11T15:36:00.000-04:00Plumbers make a LOT more than English majors (on a...Plumbers make a LOT more than English majors (on average).<BR/><BR/>“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” — John W. Gardner, Saturday Evening Post, December 1, 1962M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.com