I read about Colbert's experience with working in the fields. And now, he's some self proclaimed expert, taking one experience, one day and applying it to all experiences and people.

I suggest he spend some more time with some American farmers, not corporate farms. I suggest he take a look at what regular American citizens are doing daily to earn their keep. I suggest he take a month off, and get up before the sun, and work all day into night, and get up and do it again, along side an American who works like that. There are plenty of those to be found!

I've worked in fields since I was six. I was not paid because I lived on a farm. So did the other six children in our family. We picked beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and melons. We weeded, hoed, planted, irrigated. and did whatever my dad told us to. Sometimes we had to do it again, because it wasn't done correctly. We shoveled manure, cleaned chicken coops until we couldn't breath another minute of that thick ammonia air.

My father and his ten siblings worked even more than I did. I think he used to earn less than a dollar a day for beet thinning. He owned two pairs of pants. He milked his fair share of cows before and after school, he worked for other farmers. His mother collected his pay check and kept the money so they could buy fabric to buy pajamas at Christmas, and new boots in the fall.

I've spent time watering fields, or driving trucks so the boys could do the heavy lifting. I have MS, I have worked in fields with braces on my legs. I don't believe the plight of an illegal immigrant has much to do with working in fields, any more than the work I've done in the field affects my value as a human being. I went to the fields with my braces and my kids, because my dad needed help. My dad's gone, my braces are in the closet. I would have loved a few minutes or a day in the hot sun with my dad. My best friends mother is a divorcee. She has very little to her name. She's seventy. The city condemned her neighborhood for a beautification project. (After five years, there's nothing there but a weeded field.) Her paid for house, was not worth much, and certainly not enough to buy another place. She lives in the basement of a relative, and she found a job cleaning a production plant. Twelve hour shifts on her feet, graveyard shift. She's seventy years old, working full time. He should spend a day working along side of her, and comment on that, (but not before Congress)

The mentality that Colbert attributes to some Americans, as if we believe ourselves "better" than others, is ridiculous.

My kids grew up working in fields too. There are many Americans that don't expect a free lunch, or a free pass. We are not afraid of hard work, and we respect the work of others. And I think learning how others live, is never a bad idea, but don't let a little education of how others live become your only education.

What I am against:

Anyone that would sneak into the country, hoping to have a part of this country, but not willing to pay the entry price. My relatives had to pay a price to come here. They didn't sneak in. I'm blessed because of their sacrifice~!

When someone illegally comes to this country, they are cursing their children to a life time of robbery. Forcing their children to grow up as thieves or beggars. To live off the fruits of other's labor, forced to hide for the rest of their lives, limited in what they can do and can't do, out of fear of being caught for being at home in some one else's home. How do they undo the damage if they and their children are sent back to a country they don't even speak the language? They and they are alone for the division in their families by taking what they haven't not been given. Then with their families, they create the division~ some born here, some not. Was dividing their family what they wanted?

It was. . . . the minute they crossed the border. What disservice to your family, to raise them as illegals!

Actions have consequences.

Why doesn't Colbert spend a day investigating what happens when illegals are sent back, and how damaged their families are because they cheated themselves, their children and their posterity.

Don't blame hard working, law abiding citizens for the difficulties that come to those who disregard the law of the land. Evoking emotions on partial facts, will never develop true, life changing solutions.

© 2010 Miss K - 9/27/10