Posted on 02/07/2017 6:06:38 AM PST by tony75034
Here is the better version, now compare to the actual commercial we all saw during the Super Bowl which is beloww this one. Much better huh! Videos (original and remix on site)
I’ve never seen *anyone* moving in or around those stores.
:D
Apparently, I’ve not seen anyone because I go by at the wrong time.
The people chewing 84 to shreds on their FB page say the contractors come before daybreak and drive off with truckloads of illegals.
That is the supposed reason why 84 is against a border wall.
Too much of their business depends on it.
Illegals used to hang out in front of Home Depot but they stopped that.
As I was waiting in line to pay for a pack of neodymium magnets last night, the man in front of me whipped out his military ID and got a discount.
Good for Home Depot.
It’s the same here with orchards.
While dad was waiting to go to work as a guard, second shift, he’d go pick apples.
I often went along.
Then the Mexicans came and later the Jamaicans and people like dad could no longer make extra money, on the side.
Winchester VA is lousy with the ones who were once “migrant workers”, but eventually stopped going home and just stayed.
The dole pays more than apples.
Just buy a small term life insurance policy for your workers. The life insurance company will ask the residency questions for you. Make the value equal to the value of their annual salary and your employees will like the benefit.
Silly me! They're chiefly teary-eyed women and flag-waving kiddies!
Regards,
12 employees @ $35/month equals $420/mo or $5040/yr....
Not going to happen....
Plus, the life insurance company can’t tell me why they were turned down.....and they would have to be an employee to do it, which means I’m still hiring an illegal...
Not to mention, not getting company life insurance is not an employement disqualifier.....
Geez...you’re awfully quick to put additional requirements and cost on small business...
“I had a neighbor (American) who used to be employed as a carpenter who hasn’t been able to get a job for several years because illegals keep undercutting his wage from contractors...”
15 years ago a friend’s son was making $17/hr. as a framing carpenter. Within 2 years the illegals had driven the wage down to between $8 and $10 hr.
Again, I interpreted it differently: The opening video framing the popular conception with all its controversies, the wall as “the obstacle” to the popular conception, and the door as our legal process (which also frames that we welcome “immigrants.”
The video is compelling, but requires separation from emotional preconceptions.
Truth be told, I reacted likewise until I saw the whole video. However, IMHO:
It supports the wall while demonstrating that we are a nation of laws and welcoming of those who “walk in through the door.”
Though I will concede the video was probably generalized for its intended effect: To inflame controversy.
At the very beginning of the commercial, the woman is looking at some photos of a man. Presumably, since this man isn’t with her now, he is away in the USA. So right out of the gate, the notion of their becoming re-united is one sided: she must go to the USA, instead of him returning to Mexico.
Later, it shows the duo doing incredibly dangerous things (like hopping a moving train) that just plain would not be necessary, if they were able to go through a legal ‘door’ in the wall.
Then when we first see the work crew, they are travelling in a fast moving column of vehicles at dawn - resembling some sort of special ops strike mission. And none of the trappings of a typical construction site are there - no job trailer, no porta john, the ground isn’t even torn up...and it seems to only take them a day to do their work...again, because this is not a sanctioned part of the wall project, but rather its implied to be a guerilla strike force that gets in and out quickly.
Then there’s a wide shot of the wall - it looks complete, and endless. If the door were part of our legal process, it would have been built into the wall - not cut in later after everything is complete.
And in the closing moment, we see the pickup truck speeding away from the scene, the crew having cut a fresh hole in the wall...apparently mere moments before...almost ‘leaving the scene of a crime’. Again, if this were a ‘legal’ door, wouldn’t the man in the truck wait to welcome the two, instead of speeding off? As it stands, they may now be on US soil, but are still very much alone and a far distance from civilization - when doesn’t really smack of legal immigration.
A number of years ago I worked at a company that discovered they had several employees with counterfeit papers. They bought the insurance and the employees with bad papers left. It was an alternate way of solving the problem. They had a few government projects in progress that getting caught with a bad employee would cost quite a bit more than the insurance policy. I was suggesting it as a plausible way to achieve the goal...
Unfortunately now in the day ridiculous restrictions on small business.....You can’t ask age, marital status, Illegal/Legal etc.....
To high a risk of lawsuit....The government needs to enact laws to both protect and punish small business .....
Then fix and extend down to all small businesses E-Verify
According to the head honcho of 84 (who is a Trump supporter) that’s exactly how she meant it.
Give ‘em a Constitution test ;)
If that was the case, I’d never hire anyone....
Okay use the old trick from spy movies and ask them who won a random Super Bowl or World Series :)
“The yellow dog is sleeping on the porch”
-REPEAT-
“The yellow dog is sleeping on the porch”
That’s the extent of my spycraft....
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