Benjibopper

I could say something like maybe you should go to work for a living Chris but then you got the blues so let me just say...yeah man it's the same in a blue collar.
 

You certainly sound like you got the blues real bad man.
 

I can say that I prefer this to the bulk of X-mas carols I hear all around me.
 

Walking Man: Yeah the two have blurred somewhat thanks to unions. Sometimes I want a job working with my body. Grass is always greener...

Cuby: uh-huh.

X: Well that's a low bar to hurdle, but I'll take it.
 

You could move to Michigan, if you can find a job...we just busted our unions so if you get work well...

I think I'll stop there and just say "what X.Dell said"
 

I'm reading Germinal by Émile Zola, written in the 1880s, set in the 18602. It's about coal miners in northern France. The working conditions are brutal, the pay just enough for daily bread, literally no meat, and booze and cigs of course. And they're paid by the weight of what they dig, so it's the mine that is enforcing safety regs that the miners ignore because it's less time they can spend digging and making enough money for their large families.

That is apparently what Michigan and other union busters want to go back to.