A Strange View of the Illegal Immigration Issue

A long time ago, when I was but a lad, the only employment for young people wereat grocery store baggers and stock clerks and positions at fast food restaurants. We only had 2 fast food restaurants until my junior year in high school, a Sonic and a Hardees, and only 2 grocery stores a Kroger and an IGA. This made teenage employment iffy and they wouldn't even think of hiring anyone until they were 16, so what did an unemployed teenager do for cash? Well, if you were like me and lived out in the boonies, you hired out to local farmers as a slave. I mowed yards and cleaned ditches and fence lines, all for well under minimum wage, but mainly I worked in the two money making mediums of the South, I "hauled hay" and worked in tobacco. These were the two most labor-intensive parts of the private farmer in the day. The large round bales popular now were unheard of in the 1980's. Everyone used the much smaller square bales and while the cutting and bailing was done by machine, it required actual manual labor to get the bales into a storage area, commonly called a hay loft and usually located in a dilapidated wooden structure called a "barn".