I'm not sure why you keep pulling up that picture from the 1930's of coal miners.
but let's look at it..
Firefighter- Civil Servants, belong to a union, have really good benefits and get lifetime pensions when they retire at an early age. (You don't see a lot of 60 year old firefighters.)
Coal Miners- Well, not a lot of them left, because Coal is dead technology. And the work is mostly automated now, not guys in a mine with a pick ax. Of course, they belong to a union and get really good benefits, the few that are left.
Soldiers- Well, they get pretty good pay, they get lifetime benefits for being a Veteran, they get educational benefits, housing benefits, health care benefits...
Now, here's the thing, none of those guys are going to go off and take jobs cleaning toilets or picking lettuce or doing any of the drudge work undocumented immigrants do... that's the point. I guess we COULD raise those pay rates to what a firefighter gets.
NO, Mr Change the Subject. The SUBJECT was the
difficulty of doing the job. That is irregardless of unions, benefits, etc.
You said the same stupid things to me 2 months ago, and I refuted your BS about coal mining. Oh didn't get the message ? Then I'll have to give it to you again, all over again >>
Americans are
doing much worse, much tougher jobs than the aliens, and doing it every day, NOW, in 2018.
I once was one of them. A combat Construction Specialist in the Army Corps of Engineers. I wonder if these fruit pickers could last one hour on an M4T6 bridge (all constructed BY HAND) like they do in the Corp.
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As for coal, it remains an important factor in the 25 states in which it is mined. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2015 Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Pennsylvania produced about 639 millions of short tons (MST) representing 71% of total U.S. coal production in the United States.
Coal may be in decline but 50,000 AMERICANS (not illegal aliens) still work as coal miners, and however they mine coal, is beside my point. It is still tough, dirty, and extremely DANGEROUS. Mine disasters have still occurred in recent years in the US,
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Examples include the
Sago Mine disaster of 2006, and the 2007 mine accident in
Utah's
Crandall Canyon Mine, where nine miners were killed and six entombed.
[58] In the decade 2005-2014, US coal mining fatalities averaged 28 per year.
[59] The most fatalities during the 2005-2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners.
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Which states produce the most coal? - FAQ - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia
PS - if you want to go around making quantity statements then >>
The pictures of coal miners can be 1930 or 2018. The job is just as tough now as then. Just as dirty and just as dangerous, As for drudge work, how stupid can you be ? The reason I showed coal miners, firefighters and the troops in Afghanistan is because the their jobs are 100 times harder, dirtier, and more dangerous than any picking lettuce.
It is the illegal aliens who won't do the tough and dangerous work of the coal miners, the firefighters and the US troops, which jobs are being done by Americans. In comparison to those Americans' jobs, picking fruit and lettuce is like watching a movie and eating popcorn.