I live in Pittsburgh, my father works at standard forge down in the rocks, he works so much i berely see him, he does it for his family, so id like to swing this one his way as well, thanks dad =]
They should've added our men & women in the military in there. The men & women who don't hear thank you near enough. They put their lives on the line only to return to a country that doesn't want them back.
I love this song, but everyone I know works more than 40 hours a week, nowadays. The part about the Kansas wheat field farmer gets me every time.. Us farmers work more like 60 hour weeks. XD
It's time to rally brothers, it's time to set mother freedom back on the prosperous course. Need to say goodbye to the progress stopping liberals. Keystone pipeline latest example.
40+ hours a week for 40 years, and I am still going. Can't make it in this world with a 40 hour week anymore. It is so sad!!!! My daddy is almost 60 and is still going!!! God bless Detroit. God bless the hard working men and women of America, and lets bring our companies home!!! Send them foreign sons o bitches back to china!
My father would work overtime every single week for the money. He would do miracle work... In miracle time.... He now has arthritis, his back's bad from the military back in the '80s, he has a problem that 1 out of 10,000 people get in his brain because his brain is sending 2 signals to his heart instead of just 1, he is a beaten up 47-year-old man who battles the VA for disability benefits. This song goes out to him.
A little upsetting that they didn't even mention their own home town of Fort Payne Alabama , where until recently was the largest sock mill town in the USA!
@jwmckin08: There's one thing that dangerous jobs and safe jobs have in common, and that thing is that someone has to do them. I've gotta be under a mountain in an hour and a half helping to cut out coal seams. Some of my coworkers don't know anything else and some do it just to support their families.
I quit a cushy desk job as a loan agent to go underground because I got no self-respect out of it. Helping a bank swindle money didn't satisfy me like working my knuckles to the bone does.
Not to say that it is ONLY conservatives who like country music...after all I'm listening too :-), but the attitude that the free market can control itself is WHY no one can work 40 hrs any longer and raise a family. So keep up the union busting, making people choose between food and medical care, deregulation and tax breaks for bloated corporations who then send jobs overseas by voting for republicans or worse....TEA BAGGERS, and it will only get worse. Thanks to Alabama, we get to remember...
@tundrazwolf low taxes for everybody. have the government offer low taxes to companies that keep jobs here and even lower taxes if they pay them good wages. than cut spending and stop policing the world. we do that and the economy should get better.
@skatelongboards See that is a common misconception. Taxes are lower now than 20 or 30 yeaqrs ago when the economy was BOOMING. If you lower taxes on the "job creators" all that they do is squirrel it away since there are no good jobs RIGHT NOW which allow people to have income to spend to create demand for products from those "job creators". Taxes have to be kept low for low and middle income citizens while RAISING them substantially on corporations (NOT small businesses) and the TRULY wealthy
@tundrazwolf Why should they be the only ones to bear most of the tax burden? thats not right they worked to get that rich and should keep most of their money. and No im not saying goldman Sachs and the people that were bailed out were hard workers- they cheated the system and cheated the middle class.
btw what you said is also a misconception. taxes were higher yes but nobody actually paid that amount. their were just as many loopholes back than as their were today.
@skatelongboards You need to do a little INDEPENDENT research and not just swill the "kool-aid" ladled out to you by the Glenn Becks and Shawn Hannity's. The MARGINAL tax rate (forget the loop holes...they will ALWAYS be there) for the wealthiest citizens is now the LOWEST it has ever been! They are doing FANTASTIC in this economy....in fact their median incomes are up nearly 200 to 300 PERCENT since the 80's while middle income people (those in the 50K to 300K range) have been FLAT.
@tundrazwolf lol i take it your a msnbc watcher or a huffpost user considering u just said i watched fox news and i like glenn beck. im a moderate that leans libertarian. thats a tactic progressives use when they cant win a argument. they flame the other person and equare them with Hitler or a fox news watcher if they disagree with you.
your blaming the wrong people. if you would like we can discuss this in private message as what im gonna say is to long for a regular post. google fed reserve.
@skatelongboards Yeah...I do watch MSNBC.....& Fox......&CNN.......AND read...A LOT! I'm a left leaning centrist who believes in capitalism....REGULATED capitalism. Libertarians have some good things to say about how the govt. should be run, BUT the reliance on the old saw about "THE FED" is the problem isso overblown. The gold standard was abandoned for good reason. Now can there be abuse of the kind of power that the fed has....of course! But there just needs to be MORE regulation...not less.
This is like a promotional video for what America USED to be and stand for. No more. Detroit is a unemployable slum, Pittsburgh is tarnished and so on. The capitalist train has "rolled on down the line." The never ending quest for cheap labor has ruined our once great nation. Working class folks in America are screwed. 40 hour week? Try 100, over three jobs at the same pay as 40 when the this song came out. Then, all the fat cats who have taken taken taken want a tax cut?
This song makes me think of how the people who do the real work are soooo under appreciated. They get paid nothing and are then called "unproductive" because of the size of thier pay check. I get paid more for sitting in an air conditioned office than these guys do for killing themselves.
Own my own company and I long for a 40 hour week... but I wouldnt trade it for nothing. I Love my Business!!! Can't wait to be big enough to hire some workers too... So long as Obamacare is Cancelled and there are no Unionss involved... Im a fair man and Dont need a Union RIp telling me how to handle my business... I work SWEAT,BLOOD, and TEARS to build my business and so will ANYONE (including my wife) that works for me.
Lol 1 dislike. Obviously there is 1 who does not participate in the working life. I remember when a 40 hour week could help ya through for awhile. I myself work at least 80 but that is nowaday standards. Back when this song was made 40 hours was sufficient.
We The people who work 40 hours a week just to keep a roof over our head and the bread on the table are the ones who keep America up and running im only 16 but i cant wait to put in 40 hours :)
I'm a computer programmer and sit at a desk, but I still work. In any case, I remember listening to this song every time I went camping with my family. I think it's time America got back to the basics and started appreciating our own again regardless of occupation. Otherwise everything is going to get outsourced to China and India. We Americans charge more but it's worth it. Quality delivered, America. Let's tell Obama that.
Did anyone catch the asian, black, and (perhaps) latino after 2:49? I think the guy with the broom was latino he could be something else but certainly they were trying to be PC in this video...
its to bad that one cant make a real living on a 40 work week, if you are that lucky to work 40 hours. Think its time to go back to the old ways of doing things
where i work, we care about the quality. I work at Corning Incorporated's diesel plant in Erwin, NY our products are made in America. We make the Catalytic converters for diesel vehicles and heavy equipment. I work in the factory as the average joe. so this song hits home every time, cause No One thanks us factory workers for anything anymore. not even the Big Wigs of Corning. But someone has to do the job.
@volff130 if it wasnt so tough (in Texas anyway) to get machinery land and such i would be a farmer i love tractors and plows and wanted to farm when i was little now i plan on workin on an oil rig
They need to come out with a new version for todays world. 70 to 80 sounds about right. 40 would be a freaking drink on a beach for me...and a lot of other people!
Steel mill work is especially nasty..dangerous, taxing..makes ya old before your time..yet they built this country, the ones who did the nasty, dirty work..they were well worth what they were paid..corporate greed did us in..
Hey to all my youtube people i just want to say i love this song it bring back to me and my boyfriend he work the nite shift i no he work hard for his money and plus he going be a daddy in two months from today he been there for me evertime and he pay our bills on time and have time to spend time with me and he rub my belly and said to our two twin boy's he said he love us and cant wait to hold u guys in his arms i no he work his butt off and he is a nite leader at his job
This song is like the good old days when everybody had a job and worked 40 hours a week but now and days people are barely paying their bills and they need to work more hours than needed just because the government is giving all the jobs overseas and that's hurting America
@countryrules64 yeah and i read that the guy who founded dell computer is griping that he can't find skilled american labor anymore..hah! this is after he offshored it all!!
@buffyjosmom, this song came out during the peacetime era, meaning before all these war broke out.....FYI.
helen11937 1 week ago
I live in Pittsburgh, my father works at standard forge down in the rocks, he works so much i berely see him, he does it for his family, so id like to swing this one his way as well, thanks dad =]
Lorentz101 3 weeks ago
This song's for you Papaw 70yrs old and still working 40+hrs a week in the coal mines in Illinois & before that the KY Coal Mines.
buffyjosmom 4 weeks ago 2
They should've added our men & women in the military in there. The men & women who don't hear thank you near enough. They put their lives on the line only to return to a country that doesn't want them back.
buffyjosmom 4 weeks ago
thank you mom and dad
chevyisgay379 1 month ago
Haha I love this song I had to sing it for something in like 4th grade haha
awesomedude467 1 month ago
I love this song, but everyone I know works more than 40 hours a week, nowadays. The part about the Kansas wheat field farmer gets me every time.. Us farmers work more like 60 hour weeks. XD
moparmurderer 1 month ago 5
Wow, too bad it's not like this anymore
spike9985 1 month ago
It's time to rally brothers, it's time to set mother freedom back on the prosperous course. Need to say goodbye to the progress stopping liberals. Keystone pipeline latest example.
deanlibertyoldtimeco 1 month ago
does anyone remember the days when things were made in America not just assembled?
454powerchevy 1 month ago
whose the guy that disliked this video your probably not an American!
454powerchevy 1 month ago
40+ hours a week for 40 years, and I am still going. Can't make it in this world with a 40 hour week anymore. It is so sad!!!! My daddy is almost 60 and is still going!!! God bless Detroit. God bless the hard working men and women of America, and lets bring our companies home!!! Send them foreign sons o bitches back to china!
Romcha15 1 month ago 3
I love all of alabama's country music
amandasmanforever12 1 month ago
My father would work overtime every single week for the money. He would do miracle work... In miracle time.... He now has arthritis, his back's bad from the military back in the '80s, he has a problem that 1 out of 10,000 people get in his brain because his brain is sending 2 signals to his heart instead of just 1, he is a beaten up 47-year-old man who battles the VA for disability benefits. This song goes out to him.
Jokes0nce95 1 month ago 11
Without the 40 hour workers,the gamblers on wallstreet, would be jumpin` in front of trains.God will bless us all.
TheKevo01 2 months ago
Austria, Thank you! I believe in the same America as you.
TheKevo01 2 months ago
That´s the America we belive in - not the America of the politics! America is great when it come back to its roots! Greetings from Austria!
SkysaxonDragonslayer 2 months ago
A little upsetting that they didn't even mention their own home town of Fort Payne Alabama , where until recently was the largest sock mill town in the USA!
ujslost 2 months ago
Anyone else notice the man riding the old bike at 2:34?
eholodnak11 2 months ago
steel mill workers theres very little of them here in PA
cutandshoottx 4 months ago
that looks like a dangerous job
jwmckin08 3 months ago
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PooPoo2U 3 months ago
@jwmckin08: There's one thing that dangerous jobs and safe jobs have in common, and that thing is that someone has to do them. I've gotta be under a mountain in an hour and a half helping to cut out coal seams. Some of my coworkers don't know anything else and some do it just to support their families.
I quit a cushy desk job as a loan agent to go underground because I got no self-respect out of it. Helping a bank swindle money didn't satisfy me like working my knuckles to the bone does.
PooPoo2U 3 months ago
ALABAMA!! Lemme thank ya for your great music!!
MxRider710 4 months ago in playlist Liked
Not to say that it is ONLY conservatives who like country music...after all I'm listening too :-), but the attitude that the free market can control itself is WHY no one can work 40 hrs any longer and raise a family. So keep up the union busting, making people choose between food and medical care, deregulation and tax breaks for bloated corporations who then send jobs overseas by voting for republicans or worse....TEA BAGGERS, and it will only get worse. Thanks to Alabama, we get to remember...
tundrazwolf 5 months ago 2
@tundrazwolf calling them "tea baggers" is just low...
eurasianchica 5 months ago
@tundrazwolf low taxes for everybody. have the government offer low taxes to companies that keep jobs here and even lower taxes if they pay them good wages. than cut spending and stop policing the world. we do that and the economy should get better.
skatelongboards 3 months ago
@skatelongboards See that is a common misconception. Taxes are lower now than 20 or 30 yeaqrs ago when the economy was BOOMING. If you lower taxes on the "job creators" all that they do is squirrel it away since there are no good jobs RIGHT NOW which allow people to have income to spend to create demand for products from those "job creators". Taxes have to be kept low for low and middle income citizens while RAISING them substantially on corporations (NOT small businesses) and the TRULY wealthy
tundrazwolf 3 months ago
@tundrazwolf Why should they be the only ones to bear most of the tax burden? thats not right they worked to get that rich and should keep most of their money. and No im not saying goldman Sachs and the people that were bailed out were hard workers- they cheated the system and cheated the middle class.
btw what you said is also a misconception. taxes were higher yes but nobody actually paid that amount. their were just as many loopholes back than as their were today.
skatelongboards 3 months ago
@skatelongboards You need to do a little INDEPENDENT research and not just swill the "kool-aid" ladled out to you by the Glenn Becks and Shawn Hannity's. The MARGINAL tax rate (forget the loop holes...they will ALWAYS be there) for the wealthiest citizens is now the LOWEST it has ever been! They are doing FANTASTIC in this economy....in fact their median incomes are up nearly 200 to 300 PERCENT since the 80's while middle income people (those in the 50K to 300K range) have been FLAT.
tundrazwolf 3 months ago
@tundrazwolf lol i take it your a msnbc watcher or a huffpost user considering u just said i watched fox news and i like glenn beck. im a moderate that leans libertarian. thats a tactic progressives use when they cant win a argument. they flame the other person and equare them with Hitler or a fox news watcher if they disagree with you.
your blaming the wrong people. if you would like we can discuss this in private message as what im gonna say is to long for a regular post. google fed reserve.
skatelongboards 3 months ago
@skatelongboards Yeah...I do watch MSNBC.....& Fox......&CNN.......AND read...A LOT! I'm a left leaning centrist who believes in capitalism....REGULATED capitalism. Libertarians have some good things to say about how the govt. should be run, BUT the reliance on the old saw about "THE FED" is the problem isso overblown. The gold standard was abandoned for good reason. Now can there be abuse of the kind of power that the fed has....of course! But there just needs to be MORE regulation...not less.
tundrazwolf 3 months ago
This is like a promotional video for what America USED to be and stand for. No more. Detroit is a unemployable slum, Pittsburgh is tarnished and so on. The capitalist train has "rolled on down the line." The never ending quest for cheap labor has ruined our once great nation. Working class folks in America are screwed. 40 hour week? Try 100, over three jobs at the same pay as 40 when the this song came out. Then, all the fat cats who have taken taken taken want a tax cut?
WRCis 5 months ago
this should be a chevy commercial there all chevy go chevy!!
secfootballfan94 5 months ago 2
So many jobs being lost to robots and slackers who work just enough not to get fired......
ArcRaven13 6 months ago
1 person likes justin bever lol that likes pop
souleeches 6 months ago
This song makes me think of how the people who do the real work are soooo under appreciated. They get paid nothing and are then called "unproductive" because of the size of thier pay check. I get paid more for sitting in an air conditioned office than these guys do for killing themselves.
Saiken3027 6 months ago
Own my own company and I long for a 40 hour week... but I wouldnt trade it for nothing. I Love my Business!!! Can't wait to be big enough to hire some workers too... So long as Obamacare is Cancelled and there are no Unionss involved... Im a fair man and Dont need a Union RIp telling me how to handle my business... I work SWEAT,BLOOD, and TEARS to build my business and so will ANYONE (including my wife) that works for me.
lryfitzwater 6 months ago
Lol 1 dislike. Obviously there is 1 who does not participate in the working life. I remember when a 40 hour week could help ya through for awhile. I myself work at least 80 but that is nowaday standards. Back when this song was made 40 hours was sufficient.
AngryIrish55 6 months ago
The could do a revised song "I used to do a 40hr week for a livin"
RiskyMinority73 6 months ago
Blue collar union guy and proud IUOE! Gotta love Alabama need more bands like them
cecildausterdauster 6 months ago
We The people who work 40 hours a week just to keep a roof over our head and the bread on the table are the ones who keep America up and running im only 16 but i cant wait to put in 40 hours :)
MiddleMadMen 6 months ago
country music is the best
devilbrat0583 7 months ago
I'm a computer programmer and sit at a desk, but I still work. In any case, I remember listening to this song every time I went camping with my family. I think it's time America got back to the basics and started appreciating our own again regardless of occupation. Otherwise everything is going to get outsourced to China and India. We Americans charge more but it's worth it. Quality delivered, America. Let's tell Obama that.
gonzobrains 7 months ago
Did anyone catch the asian, black, and (perhaps) latino after 2:49? I think the guy with the broom was latino he could be something else but certainly they were trying to be PC in this video...
gonzobrains 7 months ago
If you cant feed em, dont breed em!!!!
discosuitDan 7 months ago
my mama works forty hours and i love her for it
OrangeFlair 7 months ago
@OrangeFlair thats average 40 hours aint anything special
ihat3h1tmark3rs 7 months ago
Great song i work 40 hours a week in a book factory
redneck2010ize 7 months ago
@redneck2010ize I read books and I thank you for that.
gonzobrains 7 months ago
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GOD BLESS THE USA!!!!!
INDOMEDEO 7 months ago in playlist 80s
its to bad that one cant make a real living on a 40 work week, if you are that lucky to work 40 hours. Think its time to go back to the old ways of doing things
durandwis 8 months ago
where i work, we care about the quality. I work at Corning Incorporated's diesel plant in Erwin, NY our products are made in America. We make the Catalytic converters for diesel vehicles and heavy equipment. I work in the factory as the average joe. so this song hits home every time, cause No One thanks us factory workers for anything anymore. not even the Big Wigs of Corning. But someone has to do the job.
livingmiracle07 8 months ago
This video makes me miss the 80s
cypher151666 8 months ago
one of the greatest hits alabama did. Its a shame they don't do a comeback tour.
BigBadYz250 8 months ago
good bye,detroit,pittsburgh where are they know,ruble
bummercal 9 months ago
@bummercal
Kansas is still thriving!
mikeh785 9 months ago
@mikeh785 lets hope so with this new wave of maoist gov.
bummercal 9 months ago
I love the guy that goes by on the old fashioned bike around 2:34.
Mlz2883 9 months ago
So where are the railroad workers? That is one of those all American jobs. Ha ha. Still, a good song.
Pappster85 9 months ago
i wish i only had 40 hour weeks during harvast.. in 2 weeks 215 hours with minimum 12 hour days but its the best job in the world
volff130 10 months ago
@volff130 if it wasnt so tough (in Texas anyway) to get machinery land and such i would be a farmer i love tractors and plows and wanted to farm when i was little now i plan on workin on an oil rig
cookstonkerry1 10 months ago
@cookstonkerry1 oilrig, man thats a rough job
volff130 10 months ago
@volff130 i know but hey aint everbody gonna do it (same for farming) it aint for the sqemish
cookstonkerry1 10 months ago
@cookstonkerry1 ya farming takes alot, but i definitly couldnt work on a oil rig
volff130 10 months ago
@volff130 nice talkin to ya =)
cookstonkerry1 10 months ago
@volff130 oil rig is actually a very easy job, to me at least, basically just a far over paid janitor, and you only work 6 months out of the year....
jlaw198213 8 months ago
They need to come out with a new version for todays world. 70 to 80 sounds about right. 40 would be a freaking drink on a beach for me...and a lot of other people!
halfbarreled 11 months ago
@halfbarreled amen
gostate009 10 months ago
Steel mill work is especially nasty..dangerous, taxing..makes ya old before your time..yet they built this country, the ones who did the nasty, dirty work..they were well worth what they were paid..corporate greed did us in..
bunkieb00 11 months ago
this song came out when American workers were appreciated and not exploited!!
bunkieb00 11 months ago
Hey to all my youtube people i just want to say i love this song it bring back to me and my boyfriend he work the nite shift i no he work hard for his money and plus he going be a daddy in two months from today he been there for me evertime and he pay our bills on time and have time to spend time with me and he rub my belly and said to our two twin boy's he said he love us and cant wait to hold u guys in his arms i no he work his butt off and he is a nite leader at his job
trevorthewizard 1 year ago
THIS IS COUNTRY MUSIC.......WHERE DID U GO....COME BACK!
bigmrclean 1 year ago 39
They will be getting paid soon. I have spoken.
yourgodwillbowtous 1 year ago
what in the fuck is that crossing the screen at 2:35? hahahahahahahahahahahaha
michaelrobertsnider 1 year ago
@michaelrobertsnider haha...A guy on a unicycle :)
bigmrclean 1 year ago
@michaelrobertsnider
It's a penny farthing.
renaissancegirl79 1 year ago
This song reminds me of when everybody had a job and had normal days off
countryrules64 1 year ago
This is a great video.
4daent 1 year ago
This song is like the good old days when everybody had a job and worked 40 hours a week but now and days people are barely paying their bills and they need to work more hours than needed just because the government is giving all the jobs overseas and that's hurting America
countryrules64 1 year ago 3
@countryrules64 yeah and i read that the guy who founded dell computer is griping that he can't find skilled american labor anymore..hah! this is after he offshored it all!!
bunkieb00 11 months ago
Great song, I wish I could pay my bills only doing 40 hrs a week.
ledfoot73 1 year ago 33
@ledfoot73 you're really right!!!!!
PEPO322 4 months ago
Who cares about the quality.
lonestar6271 1 year ago 6
its sad the sound quality isn't there, the video isn't bad compared to others
dodge342006 1 year ago 4