BEDFORD COUNTY (TN) HISPANIC POPULATION UP 61 PERCENT (SINCE 2000 CENSUS)

Shelbyville Times-Gazette ^ | 13 August 2005

[cripplecreek]

My problem isn't with race, My problem is with population. I happen to think that 300 million is plenty.

[cripplecreek]

When my great grandparents came here from Europe they came for no other reason than to become American. They all learned as much english as possible before they even began the trip. My Grandfather was a toddler when they arrived and he was forbidden to speak his native German. Before they were given citizenship they had to be approved and take an oath of citizenship.

[mtbopfuyn]

The Census Bureau stated Thursday that Texas has become the fourth state in the nation to have a non-white majority population due to a large number of Hispanics moving to the state.

And my tax dollars are caring for illegals instead of my own family.

[dljordan]

"If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to live in India, stick around 30 or 40 years."

Just visit my company. They are giving Americans who have worked for years bad evaluations, firing them, and moving Indian H1b workers into their offices. It's shameful and disgusting but there are those on the site that cheer such un-ehtical antics.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

My main problem with the pragmatic approach is simple: We don't have the water for all these illegal immigrants. Our natural resource base is being drained by population imbalances. Water rationing I would assume is a common thing in many states. So why allow more illegals?
Well, maybe this is too practical an argument.

[cripplecreek]

We can't sustain eternal growth here in the USA or anywhere else in the world. Water is only one resource, here in Michigan it's plentiful but eventually someone will want to draw it off for use elsewhere. The advances in food production will eventually be overwhelmed by a combination of population growth and shrinking farm acreage. Eternal growth is an impossibility.

[riri]

the rich wall themselves off from the rest of society

Then I am starting a brick collection..pronto.

[11th_VA]

This process can NOT be reversed short of a bloody genocidal war.

BS - Just a few states like Alabama and Georgia cut off ALL benefits for these illegals and you'll see them leave the state ... then we'll see how many other states want to deal with this problem.

Jimmy Carter lost an election over boat people in part ... it can happen again ...

[nygoose]

I know that the police in Mexico solicit a lot of bribes.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I live less than 10 miles from Bedford County and about the same from Rutherford County.

My wife teaches English to mostly Mexican students here. Three years ago she was hired part-time and now they are about to hire a second full-time teacher to work alongside her.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Or is it time to enforce existing law?

How many times do I have to write the answer to that? Big employers are hiring them. They work harder and longer for less. The people hiring them have become very wealthy. They give money to politicians with a condition: Leave illegals alone.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

My wife teaches English to mostly Mexican students here. Three years ago she was hired part-time and now they are about to hire a second full-time teacher to work alongside her.

Yes sir. The same thing is happening in many other places as well.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I know that the police in Mexico solicit a lot of bribes.

My niece in Mexico teaches school. In order to get her plaza, or, tenured position, she had to agree to buy an item the principal was selling to all new teachers. That extortionist system exists throughout all of Mexico and is beginning to become entrenched here.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Code for appeasement. No, I do NOT want to appease. I see the only alternative being war. I don't want war, therefore I suffer.

[hosepipe]

[ If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to live in India, stick around 30 or 40 years. ]

Exactly.. I think pat Buchanon wrote a book exactly about that..

[patton]

So what's the big deal? As you may have noticed, I spend about half my working life at various ranges in NM.

In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting at the bar in the hilton with a number of mathematicians, passing math jokes about on napkins.

One would start with a partial statement of a theroem, an pass it down the bar. The others had to finish it, or buy a round. It was FUN!

Sooo...while we were busy with that, a huge bar fight broke out right behind us.

In the Hilton.

Chairs were flying, tables were flipped, people were getting smacked silly with beer bottles.

A couple of army rangers took up positions over one of our PhD Mathematicians, making sure not a drop nor dram touched her.

Hey - she is kind of cute.

Then the cops raided the Hilton, chucked some folks out, and we went back to our game.

All in all, it was fun as heck.

[Clemenza]

My grandparents grew up in neighborhoods where you heard more Italian and Polish being spoken than English. It was WWII that assimilated the European ethnics, not some "desire to be American." I have Polish American friends from Hamtramck who told me the same was true of their community in Michigan as well.

German Americans, btw, were all but forced to assimilate due to the anti-German sentiment that accompanied WWI. Prior to that, German was as common in the US as Spanish is today.

[dljordan]

"you will pay for this in the future."

Unfortunately we're paying with them.

[patton]

Ach Du Lieber? Wer haette das gedacht?

Meine Oma - my grandmother...is Koletta Anne Krise.

To this day, she will tell you that she has not one drop of german blood.