Posted on 08/18/2007 6:15:11 AM PDT by Dudoight
Cactus Mayor Luis Aguillar, describing the Swift & Co. plant in Cactus. Aguillar entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico 30 years ago and now owns the town's only grocery store, numerous rental properties and a nearby 575-acre ranch. Under an amnesty program, he gained citizenship about 10 years after arriving.
Randy Ford, who with wife Betty have lived in Dodge City, Kan., for 35 years but have stopped attending the city's Independence Day events because they can't understand what the Spanish singers are singing.
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Its not just the big cities, the face of small town life is changing.
Dodge City, Kansas. Cattle drives from Texas made this town boom. One of my ancestors participated in such a cattle drive to Kansas a little more than 100 years ago. He wrote a book “A Stove up Cowboys story”. Now HE was a true Texan! What would he think of the USA and it’s character now?
ICE could just take down the names of Swift, Cargill, Tyson and a few other meat processors, do the job they are hired to do, and it would make a difference. Why should these major corporations be able to flout the law? Because they have bought slave labor with their campaign donations. That’s why too many of our Republican politicians vote for amnesty for law breakers.
Worse, the shrinking middle class has to shoulder the burden for educating the illegals’ children, medical care, the cost of crime and punishment, etc. Quite a subsidy for the meat companies who import more and more illegals to drive down the wages they pay.
Our local chicken magnate has recently reviewed the validity of the ‘legal’ status of its employees. I heard that his company fired 75 workers. In view of the fact that he is fast overcoming Tyson in the chicken business....I have a feeling that the 75 are barely a drop in the bucket.
I am assuming he accomplished his material success all legally, which would underscore two things:
He might have accomplished the same thing in Mexico, were it not for the endemic corruption.
And if all illegal immigrants possessed the same level of drive and determination, we would have no crisis today.
These Corporate Executives need “JAIL TIME” not “Face time” with our Elected Officials/
BTT your entire posting...
The fight with the REPUBLI_CONS we had over Amnesty Proves they are the lowest form of Scum in existence.
“ICE could just take down the names of Swift, Cargill, Tyson and a few other meat processors, do the job they are hired to do, and it would make a difference. Why should these major corporations be able to flout the law? Because they have bought slave labor with their campaign donations. That’s why too many of our Republican politicians vote for amnesty for law breakers.
Worse, the shrinking middle class has to shoulder the burden for educating the illegals’ children, medical care, the cost of crime and punishment, etc. Quite a subsidy for the meat companies who import more and more illegals to drive down the wages they pay.”
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Where do you think the phrase “ all stove up” comes from?
I am guessing that the life was rough. He broke horses for a spell and suffered some physical trauma making me think he probably had traumatic arthritis. Thus...he was ultimately ‘stove up’
From Urban dictionary:
Past tense of stave - to jam smash inward
- to have pain or soreness on such a level that one is unable to get up or move from the couch/bed.
I think you have it. I looked around too to find the meaning
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