Is it offensive to legal Americans to be accused of being lazy or unwilling to do manual labor?

Sashie

I reckon it has not so much to do with being lazy, but having an education ... if you speak the language fluently ... if you have a good education .. then in all likelihood you'll be offered a better job ... and as someone said, it also depends on where you live in the U.S. I wouldn't call people who work 70-80 hours a week in offices all around the U.S. lazy ... they're doing a different kind of job, but lazy? Nahhhhh ....

Fruit and veggies have to be picked, they have ALWAYS been picked though, but not always by illegal aliens ... the only difference you would see if all the illegals were deported would be that wages for such jobs would go up ... and before someone screams You'll pay $10 for a head of lettuce ... not so!! It is a simple fact that the veggie producers want to SELL their stuff ... nobody would buy at those prices ... there have been plenty written about this, and most seem to be in agreement that there might be a SLIGHT increase in prices, and a dip in profits for the veggie producer ... but hey, the crops would still be harvested, the produce sold ... we don't NEED illegal immigrants!

hisgirl_2455

Like I've said a thousand times already! Get rid of the illegals, cut off welfare and the people who were on welfare will be forced to do whatever they have to to survive. Plus, that statement is getting really old! We don't know if Americans would do those jobs because there are TOO MANY ILLEGALS HERE doing them. I bet the jobs would get done if we kicked them all out. The only reason illegals are doing them now is because they are illegal and don't complain about getting paid $3/hr.

Niecy

its not offensive but it is not true. its just another faulty excuse the illegals are trying to use. there are plenty of americans who do manual labor.

dulcern4u

Americans are willing to do any labor! We just aren't willing to do it for "slave" wages. Illegal workers drive down our wages and increase the profits of the corporations. No amnesty or guest worker programs-please! Let's collectively force corporations to pay a decent wage for a day's work. Believe me, corporations can't all relocate across the borders.

princess_29_71

I KNOW that it is just one of the many LIES THEY TELL. Anything that justifies their criminal behavior. They can't come up with anything legitimate so usually they will go back to this and of course they always play the brown card. My parents worked their behinds off for years. At one time, I had two jobs and went to school. That is just another load of garbage from the criminals, do you really care what they think? Look who it is coming from. Don't pay attention to that.

Lori A

Not every single person is lazy but are those at the "labor" class lazy (legal citizens)? Yep. My bf is a contractor and he has a very hard time finding reliable, quality workers. Most are stoners, they are unreliable and don't care a bit about the quality of work.

He spent 5 months, post Katrina, in New Orleans. There are help wanted signs everywhere. The labor shortage is so bad that the fast food joints are offering as much as $12 hr PLUS bonuses. This is a municipality where a majority of the citizens lived near or below the poverty level. You would THINK these people would jump at these jobs, especially given the current higher wages. NOPE. They don't really want to work.

That's not a racist statement, its an economic one. So who is doing the labor down there? A lot of Mexicans are coming over the border eager and willing to work their butts off.

I've been in management in other skilled and educated industries as well. Not everyone is lazy, in fact in the tech industry, it is common for companies to completely overwork their people, some of whom are immigrants (remember in recent decades we've also had a huge influx of Asian and Eastern European immigrants). Not everyone at the bottom of the economic scale is lazy either, but laziness exists at all levels.

How many housewives have you met that don't, or rarely work, but don't have clean houses, don't volunteer their time, and rarely cook or clean their houses?

How many husbands have you met that are always out on worker's comp or look for easy excuses to call in sick?

How many young adults are not in college and still make little attempt to find a job or career that will let them stop milking off their parents?

It is a societal issue that is growing. We are getting lazier as a culture. That's part of why we are also getting fatter.

lateralus

no there are alot of lazy americans who want **** handed to them instead of going to work to support their sorry asses. and it is because of welfare for ppl who don't need it but they blame other ppl for their stupidity

Popocatepetl

I am a Mexican citizen and i am so concerned with this issue, that i will give my own opinion on this matter.

I don't think americans are lazy, i believe there are diferent kind of people, like in any other country and in any race in the world, there are honest and dishonest, lazy and hard working people, propositive and pasive.

I believe that shouldn't be the argument for the immigrants in the USA, mexican or whatever is their nacionality, and it's to preocupy they use that kind of assestment to inforce their permanence in there.

I will tell you what are the arguments, wich i believe are valid and important for both of our nations, for the immigration of mexican to the USA.

In the USA, there is the reality of the average age of the citizen, you have a big amount of people who will be in the age for retirement in the next ten to twenty years, on the contrary in Mexico our population is mostly young, so there is the need for the american economy for the people who will do the labor that those american citizen use to do.

There is of course this kind of job that have been taken by immigrants, because most of the american people have get to better oportunities, because of the education, because of what you persue from the beginning, so, that kind of labor that many of the american people are not willing to do, have been taken for the people who has gone to the USA looking for the oportunities they don't have in their own country.

LoneStar

Sure its offensive, but in the PC world we live in, nobody cares. We can't give any offense, but we have to take it. The hell with them. ROUND THEM UP AND SEND THEM HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

sassyk

Our citizens are not willing to work for $4.00 an hour, nor should they have to. It has nothing to do with being lazy.

concerned parent

no it shouldnt be. Americans ARE'NT willing to do manual labor and those so-called menial jobs. it shouldnt be offensive. its the truth.

kimberly0627

Not all Americans are lazy. I find it offensive to me and the Americans who do work those jobs. I come from a farm family. I have worked those jobs. I am where I am because I worked my a^^ off. SO I do take offensive. Don't confuse the hard working Americans with the lazy welfare receiving Americans.

mlrios2003

My husband is Mexican from MX. I am white, born and raised in the USA. We have this argument all the time. It is a total crock of crap that the Mexicans are doing the jobs that the lazy Americans won't do. As a 10 year old kid I changed pipe (it took 2 of us). I have done many other "manual labor" jobs in my 35 years. I think the US could adequately fill these jobs with the "legal" work force. #1- there wouldn't be such a gap between the rich and poor, because the rich would have to pay decent wages, and #2- quit handing out welfare checks and make them do these jobs if they want assistance (work for it)

meathead76

It's not offensive. It's just ignorant. I'd like to see people who say that crap try to do my job. I'd run their *** into the ground.

hayleylov

yes it is ,my brothers used to do roofing but cant now do to illegals i
work hard and i mow my own lawn the whole half acre and i do my own house cleaning i work hard as do a lot of people i grew up on a big farm and had to work in the fields in the summer during school i had to get up early in the dark feed animals and when i got home more chores . i am sure a lot of Americans still do this . we did all this before they came and we will be fine if they go home .

idontkno

hel yeah .and they are just trying to twist the real problem that were having with the illegals .and i think that thier going to lose this war soon.

lanena

ITS THE TRUTH

ladiB812

sure its offensive, but the truth hurts. do overweight ppl like to b called fat, or do short ppl like to b called midgets- don't think so. Americans r lazy, how many ppl keep their kids away from the TV at night & take them out to exercise or whatever- very few. kids don't mow lawns or do housework like their parents/grandparents did. society in general has made it so it is acdepted for the average person to be less active & more disrespectful, many americans think that they deserve the easy things in life w/o all of the hard work. i'm not saying all, but dam i see it more & more everyday.

Puzzled

It is overly offensive and just a lame excuse to support the idea of illegal immigrants. I pour concrete for a living. No one in this world can tell me that I have an easy job. I bust my butt in hot 90 degree weather while doing hard physical labor. I live up north so when winter comes around I have to find another job. Guess what I do? I work in a green house doing hard back breaking work pinching geraniums, and filling orders. I am so sick of people saying Americans are lazy! The one's that say this are really the ones who are lazy. I would love to take those people to work with me, they wouldn't last 10 minutes. I wheel barrow concrete, rake it, finish it in the hot sun when it is getting hard, and lift heavy material all day! Is that lazy? If you say yes, then you have no idea of hard work and need to be whipped. I don't disagree that there are lazy people around, but when they stereotype, and say all are lazy, then I get offended.
Think about this. Those who say,..."The illegals are doing jobs Americans won't do." Do you really think that those jobs that they do, just never got done before they entered the country? To think so, is ill conceived. If employers would make the pay equal to the work, then more Americans would do those jobs. Also, if the illegals didn't work for those petty wages. I can't blame a company for hiring someone who will work for less money, but that is why our Gov't needs to step in and punish the companies for doing this practice.

Yes, I have had hard times finding good help for my concrete crew, and I pay them good. But let me tell you this, I haven't found 1 illegal willing to do my line of work either. You do the math, you ignorant people, who think all Americans are lazy! Just because you are lazy and sit on your *** all day doesn't mean the rest of us do too!

Fluttery

It shouldn't be,but sadly alot(not all)of americans want something for nothing.We have became a lazy nation and if it takes some illegal immigrants to show us,then good for them.If we feel we are above manual labor then they should have access to those jobs.Maybe it'll get our slow butts moving in the right direction.

Julie

Americans are neither. I know of many Americans who do manual labor. And even if it were true it still doesn't justify people illegally coming into our country and breaking our laws and stealing our benefits and resources. And if anyone is lazy, it's those who come here illegally and steal from us because they are too lazy to make a change, or even attempt to make a change, in their own country. Before calling us names and making accusations they should get off their own fat lazy butts and go back to their own country and do something to make life better there.

DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS

lucky_j_2003

yes if you are of color or feminine persuasion but if they are american white male wail away you are OK

Stormy

There are certain jobs in this country such as picking fruit, vegatables, mellons etc, that some people find below their status as employees. We all have become so adjusted to air conditioned work places we refuse to even think of going out in the heat and working for a living. Society claims "there are certain peoples who are more accustomed to working out in the heat." This is why we are being labeled as lazy and unwilling to do manual labor.

einstein

It seems as you are the one that brings it up WHY are you doing it?
to inflame the immigration debate ?
immigrants are doing the work americans hire them on a daily basis to do and americans are thankful to have them available to get the work done what part of that don't you understand?.

wannaplaytoo2001

This argument keeps surfacing because there is a true need for these jobs to be filled. Americans and Canadians alike know that these jobs can barely put food on the table let alone pay rent. The people filling these jobs know poverty and know how to make do. I too am not lazy, but know the bills would never get paid doing manual labor

Ashley

To me it's not offensive, because personally I agree that I am too lazy ot too snotty, whichever your pick is, to do manual labor. I'm not speaking for the rest of America, though. Just for myself.

Yes we are lazy...

We are a country of spoiled children, who feel are entitled to everything.

Most have never visited a third world country to see what living in the real world is like....

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