I remember a visit back to Ohio when the family had yet to move out here. One afternoon I got the oil changed, some scruffy white kids did it. Buzz to the car wash, white and black kids do my car. I motor over to Taco Bell, where there are black and white people waiting on me. Lastly I have some guys coming over to do some property beautification on my house to prep to sell and they were white folks.

My wife was born in Honduras and we always get along with hispanics quite easily, so this isn’t a knock on them because they are just wanting work. Rather it’s to slam the idiotic premise that “people just won’t do those jobs. Hell my sister cleans an office building once a week for like $20. She has 3 kids at home, and stays with them during the day, and this $20 helps fund extra activities or whatever.

The problem with San Diego (err California) is the wealthy business owner doesn’t want to pay for labor. I think people will work at Taco Bell if the wages represented some fraction of the cost of living. I am guessing the Taco Bell guy here in Encinitas makes a buck or so more than the guy in Ohio with the cost of living in Ohio being squat.