$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'A') neighboring dairy pays a milker $30 per milking, twice a day, 6 days a week, and usually in the summer an additional 2-4 hours a day at somewhere around $10/hr. for misc. chores. In addition to the paycheck the milker gets a nice little 2 bedroom house, electricity and propane supplied and a freezer full of beef.
They really didn't want to hire an inexperienced "Mexican" (he's actually a Texan) but no "white" people answered the want ad they ran a couple of years ago. People my age would have jumped at that job when we were in our 20's - I have 2 brothers-in-law that milked and got minimum wage and a trailer 30 years ago.
That's just one instance but how many 30 year olds do you know who would pick lettuce - for any amount of money?
It's pretty silly to say mexicans are taking jobs away from the good ol boys down at the union hall. Those boys voted themselves right out of the market sometime back in the '70s and the jobs have been crossing the border in the other direction ever since.



