There is nothing more American than pissing away your paycheck and slacking off. (via the Washington Post, emphasis added)To Betty Motley, who retired last year after 21 years with six carpet companies, the choice is not that simple. Standing on her porch in a mill workers' neighborhood, she pointed out a green, two-bedroom house across the street where she said five Mexican men live.
"They don't spend anything, they're just saving," she said. Around the corner is Morales Market and a branch of Sigue Corp., the leading transmitter of money from the United States to Mexico.
Down the street, a woman named Diane, who would speak only on condition that her last name not be used for fear of retaliation from her supervisor, has worked 15 years for Mohawk said most of her white co-workers have retired, quit or been laid off.
She said that her new Latino co-workers work faster than she does and that she can't meet the new production quota, meaning she now makes less money.
"They're taking our United States and making it their United States," Motley said. "Mohawk and Shaw used to be our companies."
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