You guys give a whole new dimension to the word "callous". Hard work is an option, of course, and not only an option but to the truly poor, it is a fact of life. I would hazard a guess, Mister AWG, that the migrant poor you see up and down the San Joaquin, doing manual agricultural labor, are working ten times as hard in a day as you are, and earning less than a tenth as much. There is a DIFFERENT variable at work, which men of your ilk like to roll into the notion that the poor don't work hard. How long has it been since you worked for minimum wage? Did you try to support anyone else by doing so? Have you ever watched your own children go hungry or go without health care because you work with your muscles at minimum wage and don't have any cash to spare?

I doubt you have experienced any of these things, nor have you talked to anyone who has -- that's my guess, and it is about as justified as yours elsewhere about Peace working. In other words, I pulled it out of my ass. How'd I do?


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