A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....01-09-04....South Carolina ~ "Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places"

visualops, dixie sass | Mama_Bear

[dixie sass]

Thank you John, now that I'm awake, well fed and FRank has left for parts north, I can go back and read yesterday's thread that you, our illustrious political columnist wrote!

[N. Theknow]

As a Citadel man it makes me just want to head on down to Folly Beach, kick back with some beach music and sip on a gallon jug of PJ.

Thank you "Sweet Carolina Girls" from someone who would "Rather Be In Carolina" "Cause I've Still Got Some Sand In My Shoes."

[Donaeus]

And aren't Democrats about to join the Dodos in extinction?

Dare we to hope such a thing? Yesterday I discovered a new word that I think is quite applicable, at least to Dean if not all the Dims, it is Sabellian. It refers to a group of extinct Italic languages that includes Sabine. Also refers to a speaker of one of these languages. Dean's rhetoric is so far removed from the true America he may as well be speaking Sabine. I think the polls are beginning to bear this out. Holler a little louder Howie, we're losing something in the translation. ;)

[Donaeus]

Inaugral Ball?!?!?! I have nothing to wear!!! LOL

[Donaeus]

You've got some solid South in there then. Heheheh :)

[TexasCowboy]

Hi, Rus!

It's amazing how fast kids pick up a new language!
I played with the Mexican kids, and I could speak Spanish as well as they did by the time I was eight.
The kids who came with their parents to pull cotton stayed about three months, and by the time they left they could speak English better than most immigrant workers today who have been here for years.

One thing that has been bandied about on the forum is the immigrant workers taking work away from Americans.
It's been said many times that if the pay scale were high enough Americans would do any work.
I'm sure that's true. If someone would pay me $50. an hour to collect garbage, I'd change occupations.
The fact is that it would be a short term employment.
When homeowners had to pay $400. a month for garbage collection, they'd start hauling their own.

On the cotton farm, of which my dad was foreman, there was no way to find the number of workers needed to chop the cotton and pull the cotton.
Working in the fields was hard work for very little pay because farming cotton was not real profitable.
I'm sure it's the same on any farming project.

The demand for higher wages for these menial jobs smacks of unionization and socialism to me.
If temporary immigrant workers can do these jobs and keep the cost of the final product down, it benefits everyone.

I speak from a unique position of coming from a migrant worker family.
For most of my younger life we were chasing crops in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California.
I know what kind of life these people live - it's tough.
I understand GW's compassion.
I think he's got a good plan for starters.
I hope the implementation is as good as the plan.

[dixie sass]

Why thank you sir!

[Pippin]

HEE! HEE! HEE! ;O)

[dixie sass]

Morning Flyboy! Drop into the Charleston Airport and look across the field and see some of the prettiest Air Force Planes around and the biggest! I think they are called C17's, One just got back from Iran carring rescue personnel. The pilot said that they started operating (the docs) as soon as they hit the ground!

They have carried a lot of our equipment and troops to Iraq and Afghanistan also.

[Pippin]

YEP! :O)

[dixie sass]

I love it! But don't you think he looks a little like Dean, with the body shape of Ted Kennedy?

[Pippin]

(((COBBY)))!

Hope you're still "talking to me"

[dixie sass]

You did a beautiful job with the photos! Mama Bear's lay out on top of the Tartan is gorgeous!

[dixie sass]

Anymore coffee? Sure could use one!

[dixie sass]

Amen and thank you for that one, Yer Honor.

[dixie sass]

Snow is pretty but I'm glad that it's not here!

[The Mayor]

I lived in Arizona for 8 years, I know the effect of illegals and what they do to the labor market.

I worked on framing many apartment complexes, we were all paid piece work. I use to have to work 7 days a week and got paid 390.00 a week that was before taxes. I/we could not live on that kind of money. You were told that if you don't want to do the job for that $$ there was plenty of illegals that would. If we wanted to eat we had no choice.
All ya had to do was to look and soon there was a van full of illegals unloading and starting work. The General Contractor wanted to do the job as cheap as they could, and they did. The only one that made out was the Gen Contractor and the mexicans. The mexicans went home and lived very well off our money in their poor country.

[Texagirl4W]

Good Morning, Mama_Bear. It's another cold day here in North Texas but reading this post warms the heart. Thanks to all for the beautiful graphics and you all have a good weekend.

[dixie sass]

My Aunt Margaret was a nurse at Fort Jackson and met my Uncle Bill there. I can remember, when I was little, sitting on the side porch and watching for her bus to come us Forest Drive and let her out, then running to meet her when I would stay at Grandmomma and Granddaddy's house.

Granddaddy use to play golf at Fort Jackson. In fact, somewhere I have a picture of him there playing in the snow!

[dixie sass]

PIPS!!!!!!!!!! You don't have a thing to apologize for! Your opinion is respected here by those of us who know you and care about you!

If you have something to say and need to get it off your chest, then do so - I'm not offended. Goodness girl, we all feel strongly about various things and know that among friends we can spout off, so don't you worry.

Hugs!!!