Too many lazy Americans

I wonder if anyone else actually read and thought about was actually stated in an April 24 Associated Press article titled, “Farmers Push Back on Immigration in Fear.” In the story, Patricia Dudley, president of Bethel Heights Vineyard in Junction City, Oregon, said that from tending the plants to harvesting the grapes, it takes skill and a strong work ethic to produce the winery’s pinot noir and chardonnay, and nativeborn Americans just aren’t willing to work that hard.

I ask: Are there any Americans in the Junction City area on government assistance who could be working? Is the American worker so elite that they can pick and choose what type of work they will do or just collect welfare, food stamps, rental assistance, etc. without working?

Is this what a nanny state looks like? Is this what our armed forces die to protect? The article further says the nation’s agricultural industry will be deprived of the labor it needs to plant, grow and pick the crops that feed the country. So, if we don’t support illegal immigration, we will all starve?

Is this what journalism has stooped to? Why not investigate all the Americans who aren’t willing to work that hard?

Does the public really understand what the cost of millions of people on welfare does to an economy? Are we a melting pot of lazy people willing to be supported by the hard work of others? That is not what America is and never was and we shouldn’t blindly accept this reality. Wake up, America! Lenore Berzanske Mentor