No need for that. I can go out to my backyard & have my American hands pick my own oranges.
Posted on 04/01/2006 6:57:01 AM PST by Supernatural
It's a new chapter in the Promised Land. We are becoming The Land That Better Keep Its Promises - or Else. Even promises that never were made.
A half-million illegal aliens and friends and sympathizers have taken to the streets of late, demanding unhampered residency and employment. Their anger is being whipped up against an America that would fence its borders against more coming over, and require proper payroll-keeping and taxpaying from employers who hire them outside the law.
Why? In part because a new myth is gaining currency. It is that illegal immigrants, mostly of Mexican or other Hispanic origin, "built this country." Without them the economy would collapse.
"We are the motor of this nation!" a speaker harangued the 500,000 who marched in Los Angeles on Saturday. "We construct your schools! We cook your food!" Other thousands marched to this beat of indispensability in Phoenix, Denver and Milwaukee.
That people who entered the United States by stealth feel entitled to tie up U.S. downtowns with their grievances is nervy in the first place. But their slant on U.S. history is off the wall. No better clue might be needed that kids should be taught in English, fast!
It was religious freedom-seekers from England who began building this country, followed by natives of every part of Europe, Asia and Africa. And their descendants keep right on building it as e pluribus unum Americans -- "out of the many, one." Don't expect them to honor some dubious economic necessity to let everybody in.
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Excellent post.
A specious argument which requires no further comment.
I don't get it either but there seems to be a lot of it going around.
Well, that certainly helps make things cheaper for the average American, doesn't it? The only ones making out are the contractors who have to get hired to fix the job they messed up in in the first place.
Speaking just to the janitorial jobs, 20 years ago here in LA there was a predominately black custodian's union. Paid a lower middle class wage but enough to get a small house (wife would work too) and send your children to a state collage (or better if the kids did well). Thats gone now at least for the black janitors. I would love to see stats own how many traditional "Black" jobs, have gone to illegals and destroyed a floundering middle class to people that have been citizens for at least 150 years.
Yeah and orange trees grow in Minnesota.
These threads always get mucked up by specious arguements such as yours.
Wow, do they come cut like that too? Genetic engineering these days is just amazing...
I hired a Mexican day laborer at Home Depot to do that.
Dane, I'm trying to maintain a sense of humor. To be honest that's been tough for me considering what's been happening here in Southern California. I don't know about you, but having Mexican flags in my face for the past week has made me a bit testy.
I'm sure Dane will give you his whole-hearted sympathy.
I can understand that and that is what the liberals who are putting on these demonstrations want you to feel.
I don't think the "Mejicanos" waving their bandera nacional & yelling "Viva la raza" know the difference between a liberal & a conservative.
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In effect, that is what the businesses are cajoling the government into doing about wages.
If only English-speaking US citizens were used in (say) the construction and/or nursing industries (or in academica), the supply of labor would drop and prevailing wages would rise.
There is nothing better than napalming faux conseratives(i.e market meddling marxists) in the morning.
So tell me, Dane, if you like Free Markets, do you like consumers freely re-importing prescription drugs from Canada at a steep discount to the price they would pay for the same drugs in the U.S.? Or is that unfair?
If so, it sounds like you only want borders when it helps make certain businesses money...
Cheers!
I live in Phoenix. I've climbed Camelback when it was 113 degrees and biked home 15 miles over 6 and 8 percent grades when it reached 118.
Lots of people like the heat.
And most of the "mowing" is in parks and golf courses, most of the homes are "desert landscaped" and don't need mowing in the summer...
Cheers! Full Disclosure: Like the heat? Not me, I miss Minnesota.
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