Y is it hard 4 u americans 2 look after yo own aged & also work on farms?
345869
Y is it U africans can't practice safe sex?
394016
I would imagine that would have to do with WHY you were living outside the USA for that period of time.  Work-related, maybe not.  Trying to maintain two residences, that I'm not sure of.
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I am quite content with being fairly well to do in the United States.  Though not wealthy compared to some, my countrymen (and countrywomen) live better than the emperors and kings thousands of years ago.  We also live almost shamefully well compared to others on this planet.  Having sufficient food and shelter for everyone on the planet is an attainable goal as is adequate health care.  \nI am sad only when my expectations are unrealistic.
979955
This seems to be a problem with all peoples who live in a free society. We try to help the poor to the point that the ones who actually need the help are passed over and help is given those who are the chronic poor who have no intention of working for a living. Maybe someday our politicians will get their heads out of their rear ends and realize this. Since the politicians don't actually live in the real world, they cannot see the difference between these people and the real needs of those who need our help. We have those who would not work no matter what because they have been given all their life and now think the working people owe them something. Here in America we have exactly the same problems. We need government work farms where these people need to learn to work or starve...
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As a generalization, absolutely.\n\nPeople in America don't stay as close to their families, physically or emotionally, as they do in other countries. \n\nWe move far away from our families and they don't occupy as high a place in our list of priorities as they do for people from other countries. \nAlso, when our family members need help- i.e. get old and/or sick- we tend to send them off to a "home" instead of taking them into *our* home. Retirement homes and nursing homes aren't very common in the rest of the world.\nPeople in other countries seem to have a stronger sense of familial duty than Americans.
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Its all in one’s perspective.  I was born before World War II and during my life I spent my early years on a farm that had no running water except for a hand-pump at the kitchen sink that drew from a cistern.  There was no bathroom in the house and bed pots were under every bed with an outhouse.  Baths were once a week with in a galvanized metal tub on the floor of the kitchen.  In my early years heat was from wood.  The sheets on the beds were sewn together from flour sacks.  Cloths were mostly hand me downs.  We raised and grew stored and canned all of our food except for staples such as sugar.  Although we had a tractor, horses we used to farm every day.  We “watched” the radio and during warm months went to the nearest small town a couple of times a month and watched movies on the outside wall of a large building. We entertained ourselves and attended the county fair.  I remember when the telephone was first installed and it was a party-line.\n\nWe never considered ourselves poor.  My generation and those older knew all of this from personal experience and we still know it.  It was a self sufficient culture.  While many modern advances have been made, in the rural areas of the United States such attitudes yet exist.  \n\nIt is less a matter of understanding what it is to be poor than it is to know that one must be responsible for their acts and to be self sufficient.
161111
me neither, but america is supposed to be responsible for americans, some are not eligible for medicaid or medicare,welfare or other care,so the hit the streets,along with there children. but since they are already here, the government doesnt need to make thim friends, so they are forgotten,rather than take care of your own.\nkinda like teddy right,veterans we will take care of you, now it is only if you have other insuraance and are 100%, not 80 or 70, or just missing one leg, or arm or and eye and a arm, it is 100% service coonected.\nwell what about the 100% american citizen, like i said they dont need made friends with, and we need more quick food stop owners and cabbies for when all the american die off:)
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Because of all of our responsibility and duties to ourselves and our families...\nOur jobs and bills make it hard to live the way we want...
300951
I dont know what planet your from but here in this part of the country McDonalds has adults working there cause there is NO WORK. More than 50% of the population in this part of the country have housing construction or mechanical backgrounds and tradeskills. And yes the ILLEGALS are taking those jobs too! It is a Myth that they are all on the farms or that Americans won't work and dont need any of the jobs they now have. It is also a Myth that without ILLEGAL immigrants doing slave labor our country and its economy will crumble. \n\nWere in our American history have you ever read were Americans and the wheel of commerce in America has ever stopped, come to a grinding halt due to americans saying "aw its broken I dont want it anymore" or " Aw I need to feed my family and work is scarce but I wont work at Taco Bell to feed them" Americans are some of the most industrious and creative people that walk the face of the earth. Were there is a need it is filled, were there is work we work, were there is a gap we create and fill it.\n\nYour question is misleading because the issues debated are not about legal immigrants. The issues are ILLEGALS and the lack of boarder security and the huge flood steaming in daily now from the southern boarders.\n\nWe have farmers of all races that own land in those boarder states. Is it ok that Americans in this country have to take a gun with them to go check their livestock, due to the ILLEGALS swarming in and onto their lands as well? Is it ok that Americans cant find any work and our government shuts the door on them when they ask for some assistance to feed or cloth or house their children? Is it ok that more and more of our tax money is spent housing , feeding and clothing ILLegals in the prisons while our schools for our children can not afford to buy a book for every child?\n\nThis is everyones problem and is not going away anytime soon. Bottom line we have marches going on demanding they have the same rights in ALL areas we do, and demanding that we make these sacrafices and more to ignore their ILLegal status, ignore our boarders, ignore law violations and let them have their way.\n\nPersonaly I do not want to sacrafice the food off my table or clothing my children anymore for people who have no regard to obey our laws to enter this country and show no desire or effort to become legal. And am furious that these people have the gual to demand it, march our streets on our American issues and policies, and wave a flag from their country. What am I sacraficing for? People who demand (not ask) that they have rights to everything here but are not citizens here and still wave their loyalty to their own country while butting into our business? That's ass backwards if you ask me. Now Wrong is right and right is wrong....\n\n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-PMRb1p42aacMueZmc_FaRn89U4XQsyz9cyAO\n\nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/index.php\n\nhttp://www.gvnews.com/shared-content/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
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Ofcourse Americans never want to do any dirty work!! I seriously don't know what they trippin' about if we all have a history of immigrating...right? I think Americans are just selfish...They want this country for themselves when this country is nothing  without mexicans...I would really want to see all Americans in the fields picking out some strawberries and picking out some tomatoes in a hot weather...haha!! and they complaining about there's no jobs outthere and that immigrants are taking them all...People there is, but not the ones u want!!they pay the minimum...and Americans want to get paid more..so be thankful that there's people that are willing to do those dirty jobs for lil' money...All what this people is looking for a is called an opportunity...You guys don't know what's the living across the border...how about u putting yourself in their shoes? I didn't think u guys would...so why don't u guys support people that are only trying to make a living and work their asses off for their families? isn't that what we all do in a daily basis?think people...think...
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NOT ALL AMERICANS ARE LAZY! but a big chunk ARE! can you say UNEMPLOYMENT! plus I know many many people who work in labor type jobs and they all say that an American white boy who was born with everything is extremely LAZY.
91123
as an American i think we need to grow up realise we are not the best in everything and that sometime we never will be. We need to fix or problems before we try and fix anyone elses.
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Well - gosh - I see so many "Americans" lining up to clean, cook and do yard work.  These so called jobs being taken away from Americans (ha,ha) are given to immigrants bcuz they will do them for next to nothing in pay and if YOU were to do any of these jobs you would want $50 an hour with benefits and vacations and sick time and a say in what you do and a title for your job and pay raises etc, etc. You get the drift ???????
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no you are not. The United States is a great place. People who do nothing are irritating.  I think it is wonderful that you have worked hard and made it. You have made a better life for yourself.  You know the value of hard work. Yes, taking care of 3 or 4 children is hard work, but those that get themselves into that mess only have themselves to blame.  It does not sound like you are necessarily mad at just your people. It sounds like you are mad at all the deadbeats who sit around and just collect welfare.  That is not letting your people down. That is being a hard working American.
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Have you evern seen the fields in California, in Arizona? Those people working under the hundred degree weather are all Mexicans, South Americans, Central Americans, probably undocumented. So far I have not seen an Anglo doing those jobs! How about construction? Those jobs are so dangerous, so hard to do! As for myself, I would not expose my life, my health, doing those tasks, for the cheap pay. Someone has to do it.\n\nWhat are my excuses? My allergies, my "education," my pride, you name it, I got it. I prefer to work in the shade, with "educated" people, with benefits. There's a lot of people like me... I love to buy my vegetables, my fruit, at a decent price. What will we do without immmigrants? The cost of everything will get so high it would not be affordable.\n\nAlso, when I travel, I like to find a clean bed in the hotel where I spend the night. I love to eat in restaurants too. Who do you think cooks that delicious Mexican or Chinese food you and I like? Who will be humble enough to clean the mess we Anglos make?\n\nOne more point: when I grow old, I want for those people who take care of me in the nursing home to be nice to me.
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no they won't  b/c if they did then i don't think there would be poor people in this world b/c the jobs are endless when it comes to picking fruits and vegetable and working in hot ass sewing factories.  many americans wouldn't be caught dead working in places like that, they would rather get on welfare and live off of others.
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If I was looking for work and needed a job, YES!!! I had to go back to McDonalds at one point in my life to surrive..So if it were offered to me yes..Are some people picky about jobs..yes, but there are some honest hard working Americans that need a job and would take something to keep from losing their house or car..and that was a positon I was in..and some local farmers wouldn't hire me..instead hired some immigrants..which landed me back at the Golden Arches