Posted on 01/05/2005 9:50:39 PM PST by paltz
Who ?
No,the stupid are just...STUPID.
"American kids can't even read let alone make change and show up to work on time. "
Yeah, worthless AMERICAN KIDS, like those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows whatever other hell-hole that are defending your rights to express your "opinion". It's obvious you won't be confused with facts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1314180/posts
FROBL’s
Start your own business and learn the hard way.
"When robots design better robots than you can, then what? Humans will simply cease to be relevent and I suppose shall be replaced. That's what you're advocating. "
Yes, since slavery is outlawed, and any human being costs more in the long run than machinery, the ultiimate solution is to build self-replicating-maintaining robots to replace us all while the elite international corporate stock holders trade their printed cash with each other like a global monopoly game.
If I have to explain it ain't funny:)
"If an employer can find someone to do the job cheaper and better than you can then tough sh*t.
I wonder how well employers would like this rule turned around - luckily the laws they're protected by get enforced."
And dont you know it happens all the time.
Ever wonder how cheap teak furniture would be if you could fly to India and buy it there, then pay to have it shipped to the USA? Dirt cheap.
But US furniture manufacturers wont let that happen because, they claim, it will cost Americans jobs.
So when it suits them, preserving American jobs is all that matters, but when it goes against their desires, then it doesnt matter if Americans keep their jobs.
Soon they will argue to keep import tarriffs and controls in order to let illegals keep their jobs!
It isn't a conservative argument, and it isn't very intellectually honest either. There are a group of FReepers here, who are constantly trying to get immigration threads pulled for the same reasons you call xenophobic. I'm guessing you will hook up with them, and become part of their 'posse'.
After all, products should be available at the lowest possible price, and more providers is better.
Then both employer & employee can struggle in a perfectly competitive world.
Do you think blue collar blacks and whites haven't noticed the downward pressure on their wages illegals are creating ?
This is an issue Hillary could ride straight into the White House.
"Do you think blue collar blacks and whites haven't noticed the downward pressure on their wages illegals are creating ? "
Oh, yes they've noticed. Here's one. Mr. Anderson will be on Sixty Minutes, not sure of air date. He's also testified to congress about this twice in years past. www.theterryAndersonshow.com
African-Americans drowning in wave
of illegal immigration
By TERRY ANDERSON
THE black community has made great strides in the last few
decades. Racism has certainly not been eradicated, but it is no
longer accepted with a wink and a nod as it once was. We are
proud to see Secretary of State Colin Powell, even when we do
not agree with everything he does. The same with Condoleezza
Rice, the president's national security adviser, and many others.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that in some regions we black folks are so
overwhelmed by the huge numbers of immigrants that we are
being displaced in our schools, jobs and neighborhoods.
That may seem a harsh thing for a black person to say against
brown people, but I don't see it that way. I am an American,
proud of both my nation and my race. What I see in my
community of South Central Los Angeles -- where I have lived
nearly all my life -- is thousands of Mexicans who care nothing
about our traditions and culture, and only want to impose their
way on us. That's not immigration, that is invasion.
It is sad what has happened in my neighborhood. This was a
respectable, blue-collar area of hard-working black folks living in
their bungalows and going to their jobs. In just a couple decades it
has become almost entirely Mexican. They live several families to
a three-bedroom house and keep chickens in the yard, but the
city doesn't care about the zoning violations or the noise of having
so many crowded into a small space.
According to the Census Bureau, nearby Watts is now 60 percent
Hispanic, and it was previously the black community on the West
Coast. No longer.
The immigration situation is really hard on our young people. A
17-year-old kid on my street couldn't get a job at McDonald's
because he didn't speak Spanish. Another young neighbor boy
was thrown into a bilingual classroom at age 8 and was forced to
listen to Spanish all day long. His six-hour school day was turned
into three hours. When his mother asked for an English-only class,
she was told "there are none."
Would you believe that I, a black man, have been called a racist
many times for speaking up against this invasion? I have a radio
program on the subject and therefore hear from a lot of people,
even some in Mexico.
When they call me a racist, I put this question to them: What if a
hundred thousand Vietnamese were suddenly dropped into
Guadalajara? And what if those newcomers didn't speak Spanish,
and further insisted that their children be taught in Vietnamese?
What would you think if they were happy to work for half the
normal wages for any job they could get, thereby putting
thousands of your local Guadalajarans out of work? Would it be
racist to say there was a problem?
When people of good will and good sense hear the situation put
that way, nearly all understand and respect my viewpoint.
Now if only they would listen in Washington. America's political
leaders are the problem. They have been selling out this great
nation for real and imaginary political benefits while ignoring the
dangers. Even after Sept. 11, nothing has been done to plug up
our borders. Another terrorist attack could be 10 times worse,
and it would likely happen because Congress and the president
learned nothing about the need to keep the nation's borders
secure.
If I sound angry, you hear right. Like other Americans, I want
immigration to be legal, controlled and reduced. But as a black
American, I see that the burden my people must carry is heavier
than for many others. I am sure that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
were alive, he would understand the fundamental unfairness to the
black community of allowing more immigration than the nation can
handle.
If you ain’t mad, you ain’t payin’ attention!
Thanks for that article.
Illegal immigrants are doing the same jobs blacks used to but for less money. They are competing directly with low and unskilled Americans and making it completely impossible for them to make any progress.
"Jobs Americans won't do"
Bush's folly is handing the Democrats a red button issue that can put them in the White House.
I could not care less about your profit margin.
I do care about the well being and security of this country.
Well I don't want you in my house, is that xenophobic?
First of all, you know nothing about me, how much I work, or how I get paid. Again, all you can post are emotional, incoherent rants. And you are foul-"mouthed" to boot.
You say you can't get fences built & that you want to hire subcontractors, but then you say Americans are lazy. Why don't you build your own fences & do the work yourself rather than hire subcontractors? You don't seem to like they work they do, so do it yourself, or are you too lazy?
Are you my mother or my boss? Who are you to judge that I am "playing" on FR or that I am not "giving an honest days (sic)work for [my] pay"? I am self-employed and I don't bill by the hour. I also don't hire any illegals, can you say the same?
Apparently he is.
And considering how quickly he did it, and the other WSJ/Cato/La Raza comments, it's safe to say he has nothing to new to add to the Treason Lobby's usual litany of nonsense, and we can all apply the Bozo filter to any further posts from the Troll.
"Why not do away with all those little restrictions that prevent entry into any particular market, like licenses, patents & copyright protections?
After all, products should be available at the lowest possible price, and more providers is better.
Then both employer & employee can struggle in a perfectly competitive world."
Of course you know the answer to that; mega-corporations want their cake and eat it too. They want protection from overseas manufacturing while they have 'free trade' only regarding illegal labor and H1-Bs and L1 visa immigrants.
Guest workers and illegal laborers have nothing do do with security; and they contribute to the well being of this cpuntry.
But, they do. And you continue to advocate for them. So, that means you agree that they should have access.
You don't have a right to a job. If an employer can find someone to do the job cheaper and better than you can then tough sh*t.
Huh? This is your argument for illegals?
Very few Americans use marijuana regularly, and those that do are not stopping due to the illegal status of the drug. Legalizing marijuana and other drugs would need mean a nation full of drug addicts. Part of the allure of drugs to teenagers is their illegality. I'm for locking people up who are a threat to society, and cannabis smokers certainly are not. That is, unless you area busybody more concerned about what your neighbor does, while your home life rapidly deterioriates.
So, you are implying that pot smokers have a better home life? Laughable.
Alcohol is legal and that doesn't stop millions of people from becoming alcoholics. Your logic is filled with THC. When you get out of high school you'll see the reality.
They're just coming over to read the comic books that Americans won't read.
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